Athens Vacations, Private Tours and Villas

Come for the ruins. Stay for the long lunch.

Everyone arrives with a list of temples. What people talk about afterwards is the ferry at dusk, the taverna with four tables, the swim before breakfast. We plan for both, and we know which order they belong in.

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Discover Athens: Private Tours, Experiences & Custom Travel

Visit and explore Athens, Greece with Italy Vacation Specialists multi-country tour options.

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Greece in pictures

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A few frames from our own trips. The rest are in the gallery below.

Greece and Italy Vacation Packages

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Where Greece begins and ends Towns we know by name

A few of the places we know well in Greece: Athens Santorini Mykonos Crete Delphi Corfu Nafplio , and plenty more

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