Touching History:

Timetable

10:00

Starting Point: Syntagma Square (opposite of Hotel Grande Bretagne)

10:00 – 10:15

Walk along Vasilissis Sofias Avenue to explore the elegant charm of the street where the Athenian elite once lived. The buildings & monuments create a neighborhood of administration and culture, a vibrant “open air museum” of architecture and sculpture.

11:00 – 11:45

Exclusive hands-on session of real artifacts and heirlooms from the men and women who wrote Greece’s modern history at the Benaki Museum’s underground vaults. A thrilling opportunity to see the personal objects of Mavromichalis family such as clothes, shooting guns and snuff boxes. These treasured items have donated to the Benaki Museum over the past decades and are currently not on public display.

11:45 – 12:00

Walk to Syntagma Square

12:00

Ending Point: Syntagma Square

* Optional private transfer to and from the meeting point is available upon request.