Greece’s Capital Athens Most Walkable Tourist Destination
Greece’s Capital Athens Most Walkable Tourist Destination with landmarks like the Acropolis only a short distance away.
This ancient European city is named the Most Walkable Tourist Destination on Earth.
On average, Greece’s capital has got a perfect score of 20/20 in a global Tourism assessment.
Leave it to Greece, the nation that gave the world everything from democracy to philosophy to the Olympic Games, to provide the modern world with something else incredibly valuable today.
Most walkable tourist destination by Book Retreats
The honorific resulted from a study conducted by the booking site in association with Dr. Natalie Dattilo-Ryan, a clinical psychologist and specialist in holistic happiness with a Harvard affiliation.
The survey examined almost 50 cities worldwide and scored them according to five “feel good” factors, such as the amount of sunlight, decent sleep, a nutritious food, time spent in nature, and physical activity, as part of BookRetreats.com’s bigger Holiday Happiness Index study.
The walking distance between important monuments and other tourist attractions was one metric used to assess a city’s walkability; shorter walking distances resulted in higher rankings.
Athens
The research gave the Greek capital, which is home to more than three million people and receives up to seven million visitors annually, a perfect score of 20 out of 20.
Within 30 minutes or less,Tourists can stroll from imposing locations like the Acropolis to other magnificent locations in Athens’ historic core, such as the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Ancient Agora, the Temple of Hephaestus, and Panathenaic Stadium.
Any visitor to Athens is aware that the atmosphere, rather than the monuments’ close vicinity, is what makes the city so alluring.
Walking is the ideal method to experience the ancient city because of its vibrant street life and numerous pedestrian-only zones and trails throughout the historic center.
Even though it can be difficult to stroll outside the ancient center due to the scorching weather, notoriously steep streets, and hilly neighborhoods like Anafiotika and Plaka, the expansive vistas of the marble monuments and the dazzling Aegean Sea make the uphill climbs worthwhile.
Other cities that made the BookRetreats.com list of the world’s most walkable tourist attractions include New York City, Helsinki, Prague, Rome, Copenhagen, Santiago, Chile, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Zurich.
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