Day 01
Delphi, Hosios Loukas Monastery and Arachova
- Meet your tour driver and travel along the national highway towards northern Greece, passing the plain of Thebes, the city of Levadia, and Distomo.
- Continue to the slopes of Mount Parnassus before arriving in Delphi.
- Visit Hosios Loukas Monastery, which represents the second golden age of Byzantine art, and admire its golden mosaic decoration and fine architecture.
- Head to the site of Delphi, an ancient Greek sanctuary of Pan-Hellenic character dedicated to the god Apollo. It functioned as an oracle and was considered the centre of the world.
- See the Gymnasium and the secondary sanctuary of Athena Pronea.
- Visit the Temple of Apollo, where Pythia delivered the oracles, as well as the theatre and the stadium.
- Continue to the famous museum to see the renowned charioteer and gold and ivory statues.
- Have lunch in the modern village of Delphi with views of the mountains of Fokis.
- Proceed to the village of Arachova, built on a cliff 900 m above sea level and located very close to the Parnassus ski resort.
- Later, your driver will drop you off at your accommodation.
