The Island Under the Rock
4 stops · 30 min · 478 m
Half an hour climbing through Plaka, where everything survived because somebody found a use for it: Roman columns in front of a church lent to monks from Sinai, a prize monument saved by being built into a convent, a bell hidden from the Ottomans that rang for the first free Easter, and at the top a Cycladic village that island masons built on the slope of the Acropolis. Steep lanes and steps; not step-free.
Walk it either way
There is a station at each end, so this walk works in both directions — the guide reorders the route and retells the stops to match the way you are going.
- Agia Aikaterini → Anafiotika (uphill)
- Anafiotika → Agia Aikaterini (downhill)
Stops on this walk
- 1Agia Aikaterini
- 2Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
- 3Agios Nikolaos Rangavas
- 4Anafiotika
How this walk works
Wanderful is an audio guide that knows where you are. Start this walk and it speaks as you reach each stop — no reading a map, no hunting for the next number on a sign. Put your phone in your pocket and listen.