Acropolis of Athens

Visiting

Your ticket names an hour, and the gate honours it for fifteen minutes either side; once through, you can stay up top as long as you like. The same ticket opens both ways in: the main gate at the western end, and a smaller one on the south slope opposite the Acropolis Museum, where a steady path climbs past the Theatre of Dionysus. Both have ticket kiosks, with queues of about equal length in busy months; an advance ticket spares you the kiosk line, though not the jam at the Propylaea once the mid-morning crowds are up. Eat and drink before you go through, because both are banned inside, and leave large bags at the hotel, since the cloakroom beside the main gate will not take them.