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Athens
Athens is where the Parthenon stands, and where its sculptures are shown at eye level in a museum built to face it. Add the National Archaeological Museum, one of the great collections of ancient art anywhere, and you have a city to plan around. These guides tell you what is worth the climb, the queue and the ticket.
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