The Best Things to Do in Athens
Athens is like an onion: it’s multilayered, flavorful, and can elicit tears. Under the city's vibrant contemporary life are layers of culture, craft, and history reaching back to the birth of western civilization millennia ago. The Acropolis is the absolute, number-one must, but there are many other treasures, old and new, to discover. Remember to take breaks to process it all: Athens, like Rome, wasn’t built in a day.