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Athens is the biggest city in Greece.

Athens (Ancient Greek: αἱ Ἀθῆναι (plural), evolving into the modern Αθήναι in Greek until recently, and Αθήνα nowadays (IPA [i aˈθina]); is both the largest and the capital city of Greece, located in the Attica periphery. Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world with a recorded history of at least 3,000 years.

Today, the Greek capital is Europe’s 8th largest conurbation, a bustling and cosmopolitan metropolis with an urban population of 3.3 million and a metropolitan population of about 3.8 million people. The Athens metropolitan area is the centre of economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece.

Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896 and in 2004 it welcomed the Summer Olympics back home with great success.

Athens has been a popular destination for travelers since antiquity. Over the past decade, the infrastructure and social amenities of Athens have been radically improved, in part due to the city’s successful bid to stage the 2004 Olympic Games. The Greek Government, aided by the EU, has funded money into major infrastructure projects such as the new, state-of-the-art Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, the massive expansion of the Athens Metro system, and the new Attiki Odos Motorway. These infrastructure projects have helped make the quality of life better for the people of Athens, and to ease overall traffic problems for the city. Home to a vast number of 5 and 4 star hotels, the city is currently the 6th most visited capital

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