Cape Sounio tours

Cape Sounio tour is the "best" of Athens tours, since it includes the previously mentioned highlights and visit to Cape Sounio, Driving through the scenic highway 91 which closely follows the west coast of Attica Peninsula passing through residential districts and resorts, (Varkiza) we reach the site where the world famous ruins of the Temple of Poseidon stand.
A panoramic view of the Aegean Sea with the surrounding Aegean Islands is a spectacle that nobody should miss! Having lunch or dinner (depending on time spent to each site) by the seaside is of the best highlights of the tour!

In Sounio you can enjoy the most beautiful sunset of Attica

Sounio photos

History

In the southest side of attica, 65 klm away from Athens, you can reach cape of Sounio. It;s an ideal area with archeological interesting because there is the ancient temple of Poseidonas. The temple was built on 450 b.c. approximately.
In historical times Sounion was always inseparably associated with the fortunes of Athens. It was in fact one of the 'demes' or townships - the most distant one from the city -  into which the Athenian city - state was divided.
There is a well known story in ancient mythology telling of the quarrel between Athena and Poseidon, two of the divinities of the Olympian pantheon, over the question of who was to be the patron of  the beatiful city of Athens. Each offered a benefaction -  Athena an olive tree, the gift o wisdom, and poseidon a white horse, a symbol of military prowess - and then they left the people of Athens to choose between them. But since both symbols were essential to the city's existence, the Athenians dedicaed the city ti the goddess of wisdom and the power to the god of the sea, which was so vital for their external security and their supplies.
And so it came about that at Sounio, a strategically important vantage-point commanding the seas, the Athenians built two temples, in in honour for the moral authority of Poseidon and the other on honour of the intellectual supremacy of Athena. They also built a stout fortress with the twofold object of giving them naval and military control over the sea routes and of protecting the famous silver mines in the neighbourhood of Lavrion.