PERIPATOI

The image of Athens as one huge and faceless tourist venue should be replaced by a peopled, nuanced cityscape with much to see and experience. Athens is worth savoring beyond the few days most visitors budget for it in their mad rush to get some other place in Greece. Peripatoi is for those who wish to spend more time discovering and unraveling the traces of the multiple layers of cultural developments and achievements still visible to the discerning eye in the seemingly chaotic, congested but vibrant central core of the city. The 182 sites, buildings, churches, monuments, statues and districts described in the three Peripatoi document the palimpsests that constitute the modern Athenian cityscape