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Monday 29 September 2008 - Tuesday 07 October 2008 (9 Days)
Cost of tour: £1650
(sgl supp £ 180)
Price without flights: £1430
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Arrive in Athens and drive to hotel in Delphi.
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The panhellenic sanctuary of Apollo and the site museum at Delphi. Continue across the new Rion- Antirrion bridge to the Peloponnese peninsula and our hotel at Olympia.
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Explore Olympia, home of the first and greatest Panhellenic Games and the most important religious centre in the 8th century BC. Drive to Pylos.
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The Palace of ‘Wise King Nestor’ is situated on a hillside overlooking the sea. Museum at Khora with finds from Pylos and the surrounding area. Optional late afternoon boat trip in the bay, or excursion to Methoni by coach.
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Via Kalamata over the Taygetus mountain range to Sparta. Perched on the northern and eastern slopes of the hill, the ruins of the Byzantine town of Mistra have some of the finest examples of 14th and 15th century architecture in Greece and some of the finest views. Continue to Nauplion.
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The site of Mycenae was the centre of the great Late Bronze Age civilisation of mainland Greece and, according to Greek tradition, capital of King Agamemnon. The Argive Heraion, a sanctuary of Hera, built on terraces into the hillside.
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Epidaurus, sanctuary to Asklepios, god of healing, with its magnificent theatre. Drive to Corinth which owed its prosperity to the isthmus which joins the Peloponnese to the mainland. Continue to Athens.
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Visit the Acropolis (morning) and National Museum (afternoon) in Athens.
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Fly home from Athens.
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