Athens, a Neoclassical Capital: A Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour

In the 1830s, Athens was a dusty town of a few thousand people, and a Bavarian teenager crowned king of Greece set out to rebuild it as a capital worthy of its ancient past. On this self-guided audio walk, Greek journalist Nikolia Apostolou shows you the city that rose from that dream. Start in Syntagma Square, watch the Evzones guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and pass the hotel that was Nazi headquarters and later hosted Churchill. Then follow Panepistimiou Street past Schliemann’s mansion and Hansen’s marble ‘trilogy’ of Academy, University and Library, before ending at the National Archaeological Museum. Along the way, hear the stories that built modern Greece, from a constitution won in the street to the 1973 student uprising that helped topple a dictatorship.

Highlights: - Hear modern Athens explained by a local foreign correspondent - See the Changing of the Guard and Hansen’s neoclassical trilogy - Walk at your own pace with GPS-triggered audio, no group needed