Imagine Zeus, the King of the Greek Gods and Goddesses cycling down the roads of Athens to visit His daughter Athena at the Parthenon in the Acropolis of Athens! Don’t get shocked because Greek Gods and Goddesses were and are patrons of sporting events and activities and would certainly bless all those on cycling tours in and around Athens. In fact, cars are prohibited from traversing several zones of this heritage city, which are solely reserved for bicyclists. Cycling in Athens seems to be a great pastime among the Athenians and the tourists and is regarded as one of the chief sports in Athens. Cycling in Athens is great fun and highly adventurous because the city is a unique combination of mountainous terrains in its east, north and west and lowland terrains to its south where it caresses the Saronic Gulf.
A natural velodrome with craggy and undulating topography, Athens is an ideal place to unleash your peddling instincts at top speed. Journeying from one tourist hotspot to another in Athens is most thrilling and not exhausting because the city is privy to a Mediterranean climate. There are franchisees, which offer on lease bicycles and trekking bikes by which you can enter the realms of the Acropolis that was designed some five hundred years before the birth of Christ. It is a special feeling to visit the ruins of the ancient edifices of Athens that sport beautiful pillars crafted in the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian styles.
Cycling in Athens may take you to the Olympian shrine of Zeus. The construction of the shrine was commenced in hoary antiquity some five hundred years before Christ walked the Earth. The shrine was encompassed by over a hundred Corinthian pillars. An enormous sculpture of Zeus made from solid gold and elephants’ tusks was supposed to have been seated in the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine. However, what remains of the shrine are only some pillars and their fragments which you can behold while cycling in Athens. In fact, cycling in Athens is better than driving in Athens because the city suffers a lot from traffic problems.
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