Free Parks and Hills Athens Keeps Open: City Parks, Hills and Forest Edges

Lycabettus Hill rising above the white apartment blocks of Athens, a wooded green slope under a rocky summit with a small white chapel

Free parks and hills Athens keeps open start at Victoria station, where Pedion tou Areos covers about 221 acres. Strefi Hill in Exarchia rises about 155 metres, and Tritsi Park in Ilion is open all day with free entry. Forest edges such as Kaisariani on Mount Hymettus close at sunset, so a daylight visit works … Read more