Where To Get Your Tickets For The Best Tourist Attractions In Athens

This guide includes eight of the best tourist attractions in Athens, the OFFICIAL websites to get your tickets, and full ticket prices. I’ve also included a few guided tours, for visitors who want to learn more about Ancient Greece. 

 

Note that various ticket discounts apply, and there are also a few days per year when entrance is free. I’ve included more information towards the end of the article. 

 

1. Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens was the ancient citadel of classical Athens. These days, it rises above the modern city, dominating the city skyline. It houses various temples, most notably the iconic Parthenon and the Erechtheion with the Caryatides statues, and offers sweeping views of Athens and its coastline.

Entrance tickets for the Acropolis are timed. It’s strongly recommended to pre-book your Acropolis tickets, especially if you are travelling to Athens between March and November. The full ticket price is €30.

Where to get your Acropolis tickets:

• Official website for Acropolis tickets
• Acropolis guided tour – Viator
• Acropolis guided tour – Get Your Guide

2. Acropolis Museum

Located at the foot of the Acropolis hill, the Acropolis Museum displays the finds from the Acropolis site in a modern architectural setting. Here, you will see many of the Parthenon sculptures, including five of the six original Caryatid statues. There is also an impressive in-situ excavation beneath glass flooring. 

Standard adult tickets for the Acropolis Museum cost €20, and you can buy them in advance on the official website.

How to get your Acropolis Museum tickets:

• Official website for the Acropolis Museum tickets
• Acropolis and Acropolis Museum guided tour – Viator
• Acropolis and Acropolis Museum guided tour – Get Your Guide

3. Ancient Agora of Athens

The Ancient Agora was the heart of civic life in Athens in antiquity — a marketplace, meeting place and venue for philosophical debate. Today its well-preserved ruins include the Temple of Hephaestus and the Stoa of Attalos museum.

The full ticket price, which covers entrance to the archaeological site as well as the museum, is €20. You can either get it in advance or at the entrance. 

Where to get your tickets to the Ancient Agora:

• Official website for Ancient Agora tickets
• Guided tour of the Ancient Agora and the Acropolis – Viator
• Guided tour of the Ancient Agora and the Acropolis – Get Your Guide
  

4. National Archaeological Museum

The National Archaeological Museum is Greece’s largest archaeological museum. It houses a vast collection of artefacts from across the Greek world, from prehistoric to Roman times.

Full-price tickets cost €12, and you can get them at the official National Archaeological Museum website.

5. Temple of Olympian Zeus

Also known as the Olympieion, this monumental temple once held over 100 marble columns and was one of the largest ever built in ancient Greece. Its remains stand just east of the Acropolis – but are covered in scaffolding at the time of writing.

Full-price tickets cost €2o, and you can get them at the official website for Olympieion tickets.

6. Kerameikos Archaeological Site

Kerameikos was the ancient cemetery and potters’ quarter of Athens, including the Dipylon Gate and the sacred procession route of the Panathenaic festival. Today, it’s an evocative open-air site plus small museum. 

Kerameikos is closed for works at time of writing, and is scheduled to reopen in early 2026. Once the ancient site reopens, you will be able to buy tickets at the official website for Kerameikos tickets.

7. Panathenaic Stadium

The historic marble stadium built entirely of white Pentelic marble and reconstructed for the first modern Olympics in 1896. It still hosts ceremonial events and offers a chance to run in historic footsteps. Here’s my guide to the Panathenaic Stadium.

Tickets for the Panathenaic Stadium cost €12, and you can only get them at the ticket desk at the front of the Stadium. For other information, check the Panathenaic Stadium’s official website.

8. Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

Perched dramatically on the Cape Sounion cliff overlooking the Aegean Sea, the temple of Poseidon is an easy half-day trip from central Athens.

The Temple itself dates to the 5th century BC, and the location offers one of Greece’s most scenic sunset vistas.

Tickets for the Temple of Poseidon cost €20, and you can only get them in person, at the site’s entrance. 

Here is some more information on how to visit the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion.

No, not any more – the official Athens combined ticket was discontinued in April 2025. Any combined tickets you can find online these days are sold by third-party providers, and cost more than the tickets on the official websites.

If you want to learn more about life in Ancient Greece and the Acropolis itself, my suggestion is to take a tour with a licensed guide. I have taken numerous tours over the years and I always learn something new! 

However, if you want to visit independently, please buy your tickets at the official websites:

There are many third-party providers that claim to be the “official” website, so you need to be careful. Any other website offering a combined Acropolis + Acropolis Museum ticket will charge you more!  

If you are on a budget, there are certain days throughout the year when you can visit the ancient sites and museums for free. Certain categories of people (e.g. students, seniors etc) might qualify for a discount – check the link for more information.

 

Note that both the Acropolis Museum and the Panathenaic Stadium follow their own pricing policies. For more information, please refer to their respective official websites.

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