Marco Polo Athens Travel Guide with Insider Tips. This up-to-date, authoritative guide contains information about what to see & where to eat & drink in Athens. There are tips on entertainment & shopping, wellness & sport. The guide also comes with a street atlas & plan of the metro, Travel Tips, Useful Phrases in Greek & a comprehensive index. Once more it`s fun to stroll round Athens. The place where antiquity & the present fuse has done a lot for itself in recent years. With Marco Polo Guide to Athens you can explore a vibrant metropolis right next to the sea & learn about 5, 000 years of history with the Acropolis at the centre. With this practical travel guide you can get a sense of the Athens of yesterday & today. Live music bars, traditional inns, trendy restaurants & overflowing with cafes. Outdoor concerts & theatre. The range of shopping facilities extends from flea market to high-end department stores. & there are museums for every taste. Metro or tram will easily take you to the coast or to the port at Piraeus from where there are day trips to idyllic islands, & buses will take you to the places of antiquity in the immediate environs of Athens. The Insider Tips tell you where to spend a night by the sea or experience Satchmo instead of Sirtaki. The ” Best Of” pages tell you very succinctly what`s to be found only in Athens; where the great places for free are; what`s nice to do if it rains; & where you can relax & chill out. Explore the city & make discoveries in & around the Plaka Old Town. The Perfect Day introduces you to all facets of Athens. The Low Budget tips in each chapter show you how you can experience a great deal with very little money, enjoy something special & snap up some real bargains. The Walking Tours chapter takes you through the city landscape of Athens & the surrounding area. Take a stroll through the Athens of today & classical Athens. The Dos & Don`ts warn you about certain bars & inauthentic folklore evenings. Marco Polo guide to Athens gives comprehensive coverage of all the city`s districts. To help you find your way around there`s a detailed street atlas, practical map inside the back cover, map of the metro network & overview maps of the Acropolis, Delphi & Epidauros & removable pull-out map. ...

Athens in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights & attractions, food & drink, accommodation & local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a similar format, with colour-coded sections helping readers locate information quickly in addition to distinctive chapters exploring the city or region. An introduction outlines the destination for visitors & a section dedicated to 'A Brief History' actually explores the area in relative depth. A where to go chapter is organized by region & city & is written in prose form with references to individual sites highlighted in bold for clarity. There are also further suggestions on where & when to eat. Recommendations for leisure activities in the region, including sport, nightlife & shopping, are also provided & tailored accordingly for each destination. Handy travel tips are listed alphabetically in a dedicated section, providing practical guidance & helping visitors make the most of their stay. The main hotels, particularly for cities, are also listed in an accommodation section, offering a brief overview with approximate price bandings & relevant contact details. ...

Athens in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights & attractions, food & drink, accommodation & local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a similar format, with colour-coded sections helping readers locate information quickly in addition to distinctive chapters exploring the city or region. An introduction outlines the destination for visitors & a section dedicated to `A Brief History` actually explores the area in relative depth. A where to go chapter is organized by region & city & is written in prose form with references to individual sites highlighted in bold for clarity. There are also further suggestions on where & when to eat. Recommendations for leisure activities in the region, including sport, nightlife & shopping, are also provided & tailored accordingly for each destination. Handy travel tips are listed alphabetically in a dedicated section, providing practical guidance & helping visitors make the most of their stay. The main hotels, particularly for cities, are also listed in an accommodation section, offering a brief overview with approximate price bandings & relevant contact details. ...

Athens in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights & attractions, food & drink, accommodation & local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a similar format, with colour-coded sections helping readers locate information quickly in addition to distinctive chapters exploring the city or region. An introduction outlines the destination for visitors & a section dedicated to 'A Brief History' actually explores the area in relative depth. A where to go chapter is organized by region & city & is written in prose form with references to individual sites highlighted in bold for clarity. There are also further suggestions on where & when to eat. Recommendations for leisure activities in the region, including sport, nightlife & shopping, are also provided & tailored accordingly for each destination. Handy travel tips are listed alphabetically in a dedicated section, providing practical guidance & helping visitors make the most of their stay. The main hotels, particularly for cities, are also listed in an accommodation section, offering a brief overview with approximate price bandings & relevant contact details. ...

Athens Pop-Out Map from Compass Maps in a series designed to provide two street plans, the city centre plus a wider area around it, in a handy format to fit neatly all but the smallest pockets, with, as appropriate, transport network diagrams, additional useful maps, etc. Each title ...

Athens in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

Very large street plan with street index in the attached booklet. All text is in the Greek alphabet, although an English translation for the map legend is included. Coverage extends from Peristeri district in the north to Argiroupoli & Elliniko in the south, & from Piraeus & Keratsini in the west to the University Campus in the east. Much of the text on the main map is very small, as are the symbols, so it may not be the easiest map to read. However the city centre is displayed in an inset at the larger scale of 1:7, 000 with much more information. Detail

Includes:: pedestrianised streets, stairways, one-way streets, bus stops, railways, metro stations, car parks, petrol stations. Building numbers on many streets are indicated, & boundary of the Traffic Control Zone is marked. Many other typical city features are indicated eg. police stations, hotels, post offices, theatres, hospitals, pharmacies, churches, monuments, parks.A simple inset road map shows Athens & surroundings, including the main Airport; on this map the Metro system is also highlighted. On the reverse is a continuation of the main 1:12, 000 map, extending from Elliniko southwards to Varkisa & Cape Asprokavos. Another inset shows the Perama district, west of Keratsini. There is also a general road map of the Attica region at 1:150, 000.

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A large street plan with street index on the reverse. All the text is in the Greek alphabet, although an English translation for the map legend is included. Coverage extends from Peristeri district in the south to Acharnes in the north & from Gerakas in the east to Haidari in the west. Tatoi Airport falls on the map's northern edge.A lot of the text on the map is very small, as are the symbols, so it may not be the easiest map to read. However the detail is extensive &

Includes:: bus lanes, pedestrianised streets, one-way streets, bus stops, railways, metro stations, car parks, petrol stations & access points to the Olympic Centre. Many other typical city features are indicated eg. police stations, hotels, post offices, theatres, hospitals, churches.

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Jill Dudley writes about the earliest myths regarding the Acropolis, the strange birth of the goddess Athena, & the contest between her & Poseidon, god of the sea, for the patronage of the city. She explains the reason for the Panathenaia festival, & describes the importance of the goddess` image (said to have fallen from heaven) on which the defence of the city was thought to depend. It is as it says on the back cover of the booklet: All you need to know about the sacred site, its myths, legends & its gods. ...

Atherton North East in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the north-eastern part of Atherton & southern part of Westhoughton around the Pretoria Pit. Features include a stretch of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway with Atherton Central station, Peelwood Colliery with rail branch; Pretoria Pit (here called Hulton Colliery Nrs 3 & 4 Pits), scene of the terrible disaster in 1910; tramways, New Brook House, Laburnum Mill, Atherton Town Hall, Victoria Mills etc. On the reverse is a railway timetable for the Wigan-Manchester line in 1914. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...