Which one to choose in Athens
Two churches in Athens. Daphni Monastery has 1 ticket or tour to book; Cathedral of St Dionysius, Athens has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Athens, Greece
Entry is free, which is unusual for a Greek UNESCO site, and there is no ticket office; a guard opens the church on the days it is available. The monastery sits in the suburb of Chaidari, eleven kilometres northwest of central Athens on the old Sacred Way to Eleusis, and is reached by city bus or a short taxi ride.
Athens, Greece
The Catholic cathedral of Athens stands on Panepistimiou avenue, a wide nineteenth-century street between Syntagma square and Omonia, and is free to enter. It is not on the standard tourist route, which runs south towards the Acropolis, and that is precisely why it is worth the ten-minute detour. Architecture tours of modern Athens include it with the neoclassical trilogy of the academy, the university and the library a few hundred metres further along, all products of the same Bavarian-influenced decades after independence.
| Daphni Monastery | Cathedral of St Dionysius, Athens | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Monastery & Abbey | Cathedral |
| Opened | 1100 | 1865 |
| Tickets and tours on GetYourGuide | 1 | none listed |
| Official website | yes | yes |