Maintaining monuments requires money: visiting ancient sites in Greece becomes more expensive, up to 30 euros

From April, visitors to museums and archaeological sites in Greece will have to dig deeper into their pockets to gain access. The price of admission to the most famous sites reaches 30 euros.

UNN reports with reference to Η Καθημερινή and T-Online.

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Greece continues to develop a policy that was adopted in December 2023, which takes into account the increase in attendance at monuments and museums, and supports the increase in the price of admission to all the most famous ancient monuments of the country.

Thus, the price to visit the Acropolis in Athens was recently increased from 20 euros to 30 euros. This is reported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece. In the same context, a visit to the Knossos Palace in Crete now costs 20 euros, and the Delphi Oracle also costs 20 euros.

Nevertheless, adults over 65 pay 15 euros to visit the Acropolis.

The increase in the cost of a ticket to the Acropolis from 20 to 30 euros from April 1 is the second stage of the Ministry of Culture's new pricing policy for archaeological sites and museums.

It is explained that the new tariff classifies archaeological sites and museums of the territory into five categories (mainly depending on the number of visitors). The first concerns only the Acropolis, but the rest - for objects with an annual number of visitors up to 200,000 visitors - costs from 20 euros. For places with less than 15,000 visitors per year - up to 5 euros.