Ancient Corinth Tour: Explore Commercial Crossroads and Powerful Greek City-States from Athens

Embark on an Ancient Corinth tour from Athens and delve into the history of this powerful Greek city-state. Explore its commercial crossroads and marvel at its strategic location.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Athens - You will get picked up from your hotel, apartment, Airbnb, Athens airport, or Piraeus port.
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Bottled water
  • On-board WiFi
  • Professional drivers with deep knowledge of history (not licensed to accompany you in any site)
  • Lunch (With Greek Traditional Food option)
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Hotel/ port pickup and drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Licensed tour guide (upon request and depending on availability)
  • Entry or admission fees for archaeological sites
  • Gratuities
  • Airport pick-up/ drop-off (additional cost upon request)
Additional Information

Travel southward from Athens to explore the charms of the Peloponnese. Traverse the Corinth Canal to depart from mainland Greece and delve into the history of Ancient Corinth, the ancient world’s most potent trade hub. This prosperous city, one of the leading Greek city-states, was constructed at the base of the rugged Acrocorinth hill, a prominent landmark visible from a distance, serving as a defensive vantage point against probable invaders approaching by land or sea.

  • Our drivers are not official tour guides, but they are knowledgeable and can provide fascinating commentary in fluent English. Although they will not enter the archaeological sites with you, they can answer all of your questions about the places you visit with this tour.
  • Third party activities and especially extreme sports are not allowed during the tour. This can be a cause for immediate cancellation of the tour.
Location
Athens
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Debp614
Aug 19, 2024
Wonderful day - Great views and inspirational, informative journey. Spyro was especially helpful with making sure my mother who uses a walker was comfortable
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Neilsc5657rd
Jun 28, 2024
Corinth half day private tour - Our driver Petmos was excellent. He was on time, very polite, friendly and knowledgeable. He made sure we were enjoying our tour and made it a great half day trip! We chose the lunch option and the restaurant was a nice place with a view and excellent food!
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Joni_k
May 17, 2024
Awesome experience!! - Costas was an excellent guide and our vehicle was beautiful. Numerous stops with ancient Biblical history of Ancient Corinth. Wonderful lunch included as well. Highly recommend and we thoroughly enjoyed our day!
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James_p
May 8, 2024
Ancient Corinth was amazingly beautiful! - Our driver George was wonderfully equipped with knowledge of the area we explored. Ancient Corinth was amazing and his explanations of the history of the castle was more than our expectations. Such a nice man with an immense amount of knowledge. Thank you for showing us such a good time!
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993mikeq
May 6, 2024
Corinth Day Trip - What a fabulous day trip to see Corinth and walk in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul. Spyros, our guide and travel companion for the day, shared his insights and vast knowledge of Greece throughout the trip. It was inspiring. The lunch provided in Corinth at a local Greek establishment was authentic and delicious. One of the best tours we have taken!
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C3268nnlisap
May 4, 2024
Exceptional Tour to Corinth - We thoroughly enjoyed our tour to Corinth! We were picked up at our apartment in downtown Athens right on schedule. Fotis was a great driver, and Stratos was so incredibly knowledgeable about Greek history and the Apostle Paul. While we were driving out of Athens, Stratos taught us so much about the lesser know places in Athens that we passed. We pulled over to a few places on the way to Ancient Corinth, including the canal. Ancient Corinth was so interesting, but if we had gone without a guide, it would not have been as meaningful. Stratos has a deep knowledge of Corinth, and has been giving tours for 28 years. We really enjoyed asking questions about the history and Greek culture, and learned so much from him! He even took the time to help us plan out stops to see on the next part of our trip in the Peloponnese. I highly recommend this tour company.
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Bjones93444
Apr 25, 2024
Perfect Service - Peter was right on time and gave us excellent personal service. It was interesting to hear Peter’s wealth of knowledge regarding the history of the area and beyond. Peter worked very hard to make our half day tour quite memorable. Thank you Peter! You are THE best!!
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736ollyb
Apr 9, 2024
Perfect tour - Absolutely amazing, our driver Notis was able to give us all the information about the places. He made us all love the Greek culture and he taught as about the origins of Greece. The car we travelled in was clean and very comfortable. Notis even brought us water! If you want to see all the main landmarks in Athens then this is the tour for you. Couldn’t have asked for more, thank you Notis! ❤️
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Dw
Mar 24, 2024
Great relaxing private tour - Our guide made this a FANTASTIC relaxing tour. History lessons were great. Stopped at the Canal was very enjoyable. Tour Old Corinth museum was nice. Trip to Corinth Acropolis was unexpected & very enjoyable 😉
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Angryaxes
Mar 21, 2024
More than we expected at Corinth - Picked up at Piraeus by Michael, our guide, in a comfortable Mercedes van, with our luggage. The drive to Corinth was just over an hour. First stop was at the Corinth canal, an amazing feat of engineering. Next stop ws the Acropolis of Corinth. A vast area to explore in the time we had. Have your hiking shoes on as it's all up on uneven cobblestone paths and gravel paths. You will need more than 1 hr to reach the very top and return. The views are absolutely spectacular and start from half way and worth the climb. The Temple of Apollo and museum was our last POI and like the Acropolis of Corinth we found it well presented and easy to navigated with information boards a plenty. Great tour company with a great tour guide Michael. Highly recommend.
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