The Monastery of Daphni is one of the most important Byzantine monuments in Greece.

Perched on a forested hillside at the foot of Mount Hymettos, the Kaisariani (or Kessariani) Monastery is one of the oldest in Attica, which today constitutes an archaeological site.

The National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses one of the most significant collections of artefacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece.

The Benaki Museum houses Greek works of art from prehistorical to modern times, as well as an extensive collection of Asian art.

The Byzantine and Christian Museum houses more than 25,000 exhibits with rare colections of Byzantine artefacts from the 4th to the 19th century.

The Greek Folk Art Museum owns a rich collection of artefacts representing varied branches of Greek folk art dating from 1650 to the present.

The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation Museum of Cycladic Art focuses on the promotion of ancient Cycladic culture, which may now be studied only by its archaeological remains.

The Museum of Popular Instruments, Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, comprises a collection of about 1,200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the 18th century to the present.

The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum in Athens was founded in 1993 as a private non-profit foundation devoted to the art of jewelry.

The 11 acre archaeological site of the Kerameikos comprises part of the Themistoclean Wall, the Dipylon Gate and Sacred Gate, the Pompeion, the burial enclosure of the Stele of Hegeso, the Demosion Sema, and other well-known monuments.

Rising 60 m above the sea at Cape Sounion stands the ruins of the ancient Greek temple of Poseidon, with 18 of the temple’s original 42 Doric columns still standing today.

The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron is an early sacred site on the eastern coast of Attica near the Aegean Sea, dedicated to the goddess of the hunt and the wild.

About 30 km northwest of Athens is located the Sanctuary of Eleusis at Elefsina, having been the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the major cults of ancient Greece.

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens is a Roman period stone amphitheatre that seats 5,000 people, and today is still used as a venue for outdoor performances in the summer.

Perched atop the rocky remnants of an extinct volcano, the Acropolis is the greatest and finest sanctuary of ancient Athens, dominating the centre of the modern city.

The Agora was the heart of ancient Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social activity, the religious and cultural centre, and the seat of justice.

Between the Acropolis and the Ilissos river in southern Athens lies the archaeological site of the Olympeion, the sanctuary of Zeus, king of the Olympian gods.

Marathon was the site of a famous battle that took place in 490 BC, wherein the Greeks astonishingly defeated the invading force of Persia, then the most powerful empire in the world.

To the north of the Acropolis and to the east of the original classical Greek agora lies the Roman Agora of Athens, a large building comprising a spacious rectangular courtyard surrounded by stoas, shops and storerooms.

Hadrian’s Arch is a monumental gateway lying on an ancient road that led from the old city of Athens to the new Roman section built by Roman Emperor Hadrian.