Athens

Travel Greece is a comprehensive travel guide and phrasebook from Athens to Peloponnese to the Greek Islands. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Info, Basic Phrasebook, and a map in the trial version.

Features

• Fully illustrated.
• Historical overviews.
• Archeological sites.
• Interesting facts.
• Street Map, Metro Map, and more.
• Comprehensive Phrasebook.
• Unit Conversion table.
• Navigate from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases.
• Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
• Plan the trip during airplane flight.
• Add Bookmarks
• Text annotation and mark-up
• Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Phrasebook
3. Maps
4. Athens
5. Peloponnese
6. Thessaloniki
7. Crete
8. Continental Greece
9. Greek Islands
10. Units Conversion
11. A-Z Index

1. Greece: Quick Facts | Tourism Offices | Safety | Regions | Geography | Climate | Get In | Get Around | Eat | Sleep | Buy | History | Politics | Economy | Demographics | World Heritage Sites

2. Phrasebook: About | Introduction | Phrase List

3. Maps: Greece | Administrative Regions | Religious Sanctuaries | Athens: City Map | Metro Map | Thessaloniki: Historical Map | Greek islands | Crete | Minoan Crete | Ionian | Corfu

4. Athens: City Map | Metro Map | History | Attractions | Get in | Get Around | Climate | Eat | Sleep | Entertainment and shopping

5. Peloponnese: Get In | History | Cities | Archaeological Sites

6. Thessaloniki: History | Historical Map | Attractions | Get In | Get Around | Climate | Eat | Sleep | Festivals

7. Crete: Map of Minoan Crete | Get In | Get Around | Eat | Sleep | History | Cities | Attractions

8. Continental Greece: Central Greece (Attica and Thessaly) | Western Greece (Epirus) | Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace) | Continental Greece in ten days

9. Greek Islands: Cyclades | Dodecanese Islands | Northern Aegean Islands | Saronic Islands | Sporades | Ionian

This map covers the following areas:
Main Athens Map 1:9,000
Piraeus Inset Map 1:21,000
Greece & the Aegean Map 1:3,300,000

Anyone who visits Greece is drawn to visit the Acropolis of Athens. It houses the Parthenon, sitting majestically on the hill, and offers terrific views of the bustling capital below. Go early or late in the day to avoid the afternoon heat. Mid-day, visit some museums or relax in a cafe with an ouzo. Athens is loaded with museums, and the National Archaeological Museum ranks among the top ten in the world.

The Plaka, located downhill from the Acropolis, is one of the oldest parts of modern Athens. The old market, where philosophers Socrates and Plato once walked and talked, is known as the Ancient Agora. The Psiri, working class neighborhood by day, is the hip nightlife district. All these sites, places, hotels and metro stations are easy to locate with the STREETWISE® Athens Map.

For those venturing outside Athens, there is a detailed map of the port town of Piraeus, where all ferries and cruise ships make their departure for the Greek Islands. And because no trip is complete without visiting at least one Greek Island, a map of the Greek Islands with major ferry routes is also included.