An acropolis tour in German takes guests across the Acropolis of Athens with a German-speaking licensed guide. Find more trip ideas on Greece Tours.
GetYourGuide lists walking, museum and small-group tours that run in German only. Further tours add German to a longer language list. Bavarian architects and German archaeologists also worked on the rock, and this page covers them too.
Which formats does an acropolis tour in German come in?
An acropolis tour in German is a guided walk over the Acropolis of Athens with a German-speaking licensed guide. Formats include a 1.5-hour walking group, a 3-hour museum combination, a small group and a private tour.
GetYourGuide lists four tours that run in German only. The four are a walking tour, a museum tour, a First Access small group and a tour with admissions. Tiqets sells a guided Acropolis tour with a live guide in English, German, Dutch or Spanish.
Little Owl Tours runs its own Dutch or German tour, and ToursByLocals offers a private guide who speaks German. Other operators put German on a language list beside English and more. This page sorts each format by length, group size, meeting point and cancellation rules. It also covers the German history on the rock.
Our guide to Athens tours covers the Acropolis, the museums and the old quarters around it.
How does the walking acropolis tour in German work?
The walking tour is an acropolis tour in German that lasts 1.5 hours and runs in German only. GetYourGuide rates the Acropolis Guided Walking Tour in German 4.9 out of 5 from 501 reviews. The listing carries free cancellation and a skip-the-line tag.
GetYourGuide describes the tour as a guided walking group tour of the Acropolis. The booking frame shows a limit of 15 guests. The listing asks for a booking at least 10 hours before the start.
Little Owl Tours runs a similar acropolis tour in German or Dutch. Its includes list names a 1.5-hour guided tour for a small group of up to 20 people. The guide is state-licensed and an archaeologist.
Tiqets adds a Guided Walking Tour in German to its checkout options. It sits beside a Dutch version and an English small-group tour on the same Tiqets page.
Which acropolis tour in German adds the Acropolis Museum?
The Acropolis and Acropolis Museum Tour in German is an acropolis tour in German with a museum stop. It lasts 3 hours and runs in German only. GetYourGuide rates it 4.9 out of 5 from 48 reviews.
The listing holds up to 20 guests and carries a skip-the-line tag and free cancellation. Bookings close 10 hours before the start, and GetYourGuide flags the tour with a sell-out warning. The text promises the mythology and history of Athens.
A longer option is Athens Highlights: Acropolis, Parthenon & Museum. It lasts 3.5 hours with a guide in English, French, German or Spanish. It holds 4.7 out of 5 from 152 reviews and needs at least 2 guests.
Other operators split the museum from the rock. Acropolis-tickets.com says its combined Acropolis, Parthenon and Acropolis Museum guided tour offers an English or Spanish guide. German speakers need a German listing or a multilingual one with German on the language list.
Is there a small-group acropolis tour in German with First Access?
Yes. GetYourGuide lists the First Access Acropolis Small-Group Tour in German, a 2-hour acropolis tour in German made for German-speaking travellers. It scores 4.5 out of 5 from 23 reviews and carries free cancellation.
GetYourGuide sells it as exclusive First Access to the Acropolis with a licensed guide. It names the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena Nike as the stops. Its cut-off for new bookings is 10 hours before the start.
A second 2-hour acropolis tour in German includes admissions and holds up to 20 guests. Its title reads Acropolis and Parthenon tour with German-speaking guide. It scores 4.5 out of 5 from 8 reviews. GetYourGuide promises panoramic views of historic and modern Athens.
The tours4everyone page offers a small-group afternoon walk with a German-speaking licensed guide and archaeologist. Its exclusions list says entrance fees stay extra unless the guest books the option with entrance tickets.
Which multilingual tours list German among their guide languages?
Each GetYourGuide booking frame lists its guide languages. The tours below show German beside other languages. Select German in the language option at checkout, and the listing works as an acropolis tour in German.
- Athens: Parthenon, Acropolis and Museum Small Group Tour: English and German, 1.5 to 3 hours, rated 4.8 from 1,488 reviews, with a private option.
- Athens: Acropolis, Parthenon Tour & Acropolis Museum Options: six languages with German, 2 to 4 hours, rated 4.7 from 10,080 reviews, with a museum upgrade.
- Athens: 2-Hour Acropolis & Parthenon Highlights Tour: English, French, German and Spanish, rated 4.6 from 164 reviews, as a ticket-included or guide-only tour.
- Athens: 6-Site Greek Mythology Walk & Hidden Acropolis View: English, French, Spanish and German, 2 hours, rated 4.7 from 215 reviews.
Headout and Acropolis-tickets.com both list five guide languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Headout names the language per option, so an acropolis tour in German depends on the option picked.
What are the Acropolis monuments called in German?
In German the Acropolis is die Akropolis. Its four main buildings are der Parthenon, das Erechtheion, die Propyläen and der Tempel der Athena Nike. They went up between 467 and 406 BC. A guide on an acropolis tour in German uses these names on the rock.
German Wikipedia explains the word Akropolis as die Oberstadt Athens, the upper city of Athens. The article calls the rock the great castle hill of the city goddess Athena.
The Propyläen form the entrance gate at the head of a new access ramp, and the architect Mnesikles designed them. The Erechtheion stands on the north side and is the second largest temple of the complex. Its Korenhalle, the porch of the Caryatids, has maiden statues in place of columns. Read more on the Erechtheion and the Caryatids.
The Tempel der Athena Nike is the smallest and daintiest temple of the complex. It is dedicated to Nike apteros, the wingless goddess of victory. German Wikipedia attributes it to the architect Kallikrates.
What does the guide show on the south slope of an acropolis tour in German?
On an acropolis tour in German the south slope holds the Dionysostheater, the Asklepieion and the Odeon des Herodes Atticus. Little Owl Tours names all three stops. German Wikipedia calls the Dionysostheater the leading theatre of ancient Greece.
The Dionysostheater, known in English as the Theatre of Dionysus, is named after Dionysos, the god of wine and ecstasy. The stone building dates to around 330 BC, under the politician Lykurg. It had 78 rows of seats, and the first row held 67 marble seats for dignitaries.
Lykurg also had bronze statues of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides set up there. Only a Roman marble copy of the Sophocles survives. The Archaeological Society of Athens began to dig the theatre in the nineteenth century. The architect Ernst Ziller recorded it first.
Little Owl Tours lists the Asklepieion as one of the first hospitals in Athens. Its page promises lessons on the foundations of medicine at that stop.
The Odeon des Herodes Atticus is a Roman-style theatre, where the stage building closes off the orchestra. German Wikipedia counts 32 steep rows of marble seats. The roof over the seats spanned almost 50 metres, the largest known roof of antiquity. In 267 the Germanic Heruler plundered the theatre and destroyed the roof, which was never rebuilt.
Maria Callas and Mikis Theodorakis performed in the Odeon, according to German Wikipedia. On its acropolis tour in German, Little Owl Tours names Sting and Patti Smith as summer performers. Read more on the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
Which Bavarian architects shaped the rock that an acropolis tour in German climbs?
Otto, a Bavarian prince, became the first king of Greece, and German architects shaped Athens and the rock around him. The names are Leo von Klenze, Eduard Schaubert and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
German Wikipedia calls Otto the second son of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. The royal court lived in Nafplio before the capital moved to Athens. Klenze drew the town-planning concept for Athens on a commission from Otto. He also painted an ideal view of the Acropolis and the Areopagus.
English Wikipedia credits Klenze with the restoration of the Acropolis in the nineteenth century. It cites the German historian Wolf Seidl and his book Bavarians in Greece.
Eduard Schaubert, a Prussian architect, worked with Hans Christian Hansen under the archaeologist Ludwig Ross. The three took part in the work on the Acropolis that restored the Temple of Athena Nike. They later published a book in Berlin about the excavations and the rebuilding.
Schaubert and his friend Stamatios Kleanthis drew a topographic map of Athens with its ancient ruins. Their city plan opens sight lines to the Acropolis. Schinkel, their teacher in Berlin, had planned a palace on the Acropolis itself, according to German Wikipedia.
Which German archaeologists worked on the rock that an acropolis tour in German visits?
Wilhelm Dörpfeld, a German architect and archaeologist, took part in Greek excavations on the Acropolis in the late nineteenth century. He also led the Athens department of the German Archaeological Institute.
Among other finds, those excavations freed the foundations of the Old Athena Temple. Dörpfeld also founded the German School in Athens.
The institute opened its Athens department in the nineteenth century as a second branch abroad. German Wikipedia says its work lay in fieldwork, regional archaeology and topographic research from the start. The department’s journal is the Athenische Mitteilungen.
In volume two of that journal, Friedrich von Duhn published a view of the Acropolis from the seventeenth century. German Wikipedia cites it for a picture of the rock from that time.
Theodor Heuss named three hills on which the West was founded: Golgotha, the Acropolis and the Capitol in Rome. German Wikipedia quotes him from a speech at a school opening in Heilbronn.
What group size can you expect on an acropolis tour in German?
The group on an acropolis tour in German holds up to 15 guests on the walking tour. The museum and admissions tours take up to 20. Acropolis-tickets.com puts the small group at 10 and other guided groups at 25.
Little Owl Tours caps its acropolis tour in German or Dutch at 20 people. Tours4everyone sets a maximum of 50 travellers on its German-guided walk. The 2-Hour Acropolis & Parthenon Highlights Tour needs at least 2 guests and holds up to 20.
The Athens: 6-Site Greek Mythology Walk takes small groups only and holds up to 10 guests.
For a small group with tickets, GetYourGuide offers Athens: Guided Tour of Acropolis & Parthenon with Tickets. It lasts 2 hours with a guide in English or German. It is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 2,354 reviews and carries a private option. Guests must book at least 4 hours ahead.
Where do guests meet for an acropolis tour in German?
An acropolis tour in German meets at Acropolis Metro station for Little Owl Tours and for the ToursByLocals private tour. Little Owl Tours uses the Makriyianni exit, and its guide carries a sign that reads Little Owl Tours.
Little Owl Tours moves the start for its private highlights tour. That tour meets outside Monastiraki Metro station, in front of the metro sign next to the kiosk.
ToursByLocals lets guests ask for a different spot, such as a hotel, at checkout. Little Owl Tours does not include hotel pickup on the group tour. The private tour offers pickup and drop-off on request.
Headout tells guests to check the final voucher for the starting point details. The tours4everyone page says guests can show a paper or an electronic voucher.
Is a private acropolis tour in German available?
Yes. A private acropolis tour in German runs on GetYourGuide, with Little Owl Tours and with ToursByLocals. The private groups are small: GetYourGuide caps them at 14 guests, and ToursByLocals takes 1 to 8 people.
The listing Acropolis FULLY PRIVATE Tour with Licensed Guide lasts 1.5 to 3 hours. Guides speak English, German, Italian and Greek. It scores 4.9 out of 5 from 136 reviews. The text names the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and the Theater of Dionysus.
The Acropolis & Acropolis Museum Expert-led Private Guided Tour adds the museum and offers the same four languages. It lasts 1.5 to 3 hours, and 373 reviews give it a rating of 4.9 out of 5.
Little Owl Tours lists a private highlights tour with an English, Dutch or German-speaking guide. The includes list names a 3-hour guided tour with skip-the-line entry. The tour adds Monastiraki Square and the Temple of Olympian Zeus to the Acropolis.
The ToursByLocals guide Panos P. speaks English, German and French. He holds a Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and guides on foot only. His half-day tour covers the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum, in the order that suits the weather and the guests.
How do bookings and cancellations work for an acropolis tour in German?
Book an acropolis tour in German on GetYourGuide or Tiqets, or with the operator. Choose German at the language step of checkout. All four German-only GetYourGuide listings carry free cancellation. Three of them close bookings 10 hours before the start.
Tiqets shows free cancellation options and rescheduling options on its guided Acropolis tour page. ToursByLocals publishes its cancellation policies on the booking page and sells an upgrade for last-minute cancellation.
The tours4everyone page says confirmation arrives at the time of booking. Headout lists a German-speaking guide among the options of its Acropolis and Parthenon guided tours with entry tickets. The language belongs to the option picked at checkout.
What else comes up for guests who plan an acropolis tour in German?
Which time of day do German-guided tours run?
Little Owl Tours calls its Dutch or German tour an early morning tour. The tours4everyone page describes its German-guided walk as an afternoon walking tour.
What dress code applies on an acropolis tour in German?
The tours4everyone page names a smart casual dress code. It also recommends comfortable walking shoes and hats in the warm months.
Do the German walks also run in Dutch?
Yes. GetYourGuide lists the Acropolis Guided Walking Tour in Dutch for 1.5 hours with a limit of 15 guests. Travellers rate it 4.9 out of 5 across 160 reviews. Little Owl Tours and Tiqets also sell Dutch options.
Is there a tour for children?
Little Owl Tours points families with children to its kid-friendly Acropolis tour called Little Feet. German-language Google reviews on the Little Owl Tours page praise a children’s tour.
How long do guided Acropolis tours run in general?
Acropolis-tickets.com says guided Acropolis tours last anywhere between 2 and 10 hours, depending on the experience.
Which German-only listings carry a skip-the-line tag?
GetYourGuide shows the tag on the walking tour, the museum tour and the tour with admissions. The frame shows no skip-the-line tag on the First Access small group.