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TOUR CODE: SANTORINI 2

AKROTIRI EXCAVATIONS

Tour Identity

Highlights: Akrotiri excavations “the Minoan Pompei”
Type of tour: Bus and walking tour
Pick up point: Fira town (outside cable car station)
Difficulty level: Easy – An amount of walking and climbing of stairs required.
Useful info: Tour not available on Mondays, since Akrotiri site is closed, Arrange with your cruise manager to embark on the tender boat to Fira port.

Visit the ancient site of Akrotiri, a fascinating and important archaeological site on the island of Santorini.
Dubbed the "Minoan Pompeii," the flourishing town was at once destroyed and preserved around 1450 BC by a volcanic eruption. Today it has been partially excavated and is protected from the sun under a large shed.
The settlement was one of the major cities and ports of the Aegean Sea during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (20th-17th century BC). It was a crowded city of 20 acres with a remarkable social structure, public roads, sewerage, sanitary engineering, multi storey buildings.
After visit of Akrotiri return to Fira town, where you take the cable car down to port for embarkation on tender boats to the cruise ship.

Included:

Private bus or taxi depending on the number of persons
Licensed guide
Round trip Cable car ticket
Entrance fee to Akrotiri

45€Duration3 hours

Booking Procedure Cancellation Policy

We can provide our services for all cruise companies that call at the Greek ports.

Travel arrangements for groups or individual travelers.

Does your cruise start or end in Athens?

Do you plan to spend one or more nights in the city?

HOTELS

If you do, we can arrange your accommodation in hotels of all categories (5*, 4*,3*) located either in the city center,or at the famous coast of Athens on the beach front.
All the hotels we use are renovated and located in safe and central parts of Athens.

TOURS

Are you fascinated by Classical Greece?
If you do, choose among the three more classical tours of Greece (2-5 days) and visit the most important cities of ancient world.
The tours run during the summer season almost on daily basis.

SERVICES

We can arrange for you all type of tourist services such as:

Private transfers
Private tours in Athens and all over Greece
Car rental
Restaurant bookings
Air and boat tickets
Island hopping tours and many more tourist services