Greece Travel Guide

The Acropolis now
has a daily cap.

Greek antiquity is being managed for crowd capacity, with timed entry and daily visitor limits at the busiest sites. That changes how you plan, and the museums say so plainly while the tour resellers do not.

Greece has been dealing with more visitors than its most famous sites can physically absorb. The response has been timed slots and daily caps at the Acropolis, and pressure across the other major sites. Book direct with the institutions, which is cheaper and often the only way to get a slot, and read them rather than a reseller adding a fee to a ticket you can buy yourself.

The reading list

Link-out only. Governments, institutions and primary data, not tour operators.

The sites, and their limits

Book direct. Resellers charge a markup on state tickets.

  1. Acropolis Museum

    State museum · Primary

    The museum below the rock, holding what was removed from it. Direct ticketing, current hours, and the ongoing question of the sculptures still in London.

  2. Acropolis of Athens

    Wikipedia · Reference

    The site itself, its construction and its long afterlife as fortress, church and mosque. Better background than any guide's summary.

  3. UNESCO

    UN agency · Institution

    The World Heritage listing body. Greece has eighteen inscribed sites and the criteria explain why each one qualifies.

Practical

  1. Greece travel advice

    UK Foreign Office · Advisory

    Entry rules, wildfire season and the ferry situation. Greece has serious summer fire risk and this says so.

  2. Greece

    Wikivoyage · Guide

    Volunteer-written and ad-free. Particularly good on island ferries, which is where commercial guides tend to be vaguest.

  3. Greece

    CIA World Factbook · Reference

    Standard-format country data.

  4. Greece

    World Bank · Data

    Economic indicators. Relevant if you want to understand what tourism actually represents to this economy.