Blue Guide: Athens and Environs

by Robin Barber

Providing up-to-date information on public transport, accommodation, and restaurant listings as well as full color maps and plans for days out of the city, this is an excellent cultural guidebook. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393308383
• ISBN13: 9780393308389
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Better than going on a tour.

I just returned from spending a week in Athens and used this guide the entire time. It is a fantastic personal guide for the whole city, taking you to all the ancient sites as well as the more different places. The book explains the history of the sites, and then tells you almost stone-for-stone what you are looking at for each site. There are wonderful parts of Athens I would have missed had I not had this book with me. It also goes through places outside Athens, such as the sites at Sounion and Eleusis. If you're interested in ancient history (and especially archaeological sites), then you can't do better than to take this guide with you to Athens.

Athens Guide Book

This book is so pertinent for those people who are going to Athens, the capital of Greece. It is much more comprehensive about the city than the Blue Guide to Greece, which is great if you plan to stay in the city for awhile. Its commentaries are easy to read and understand and give you a full view of what to expect. Get it if you can.