Greece & Italy Honeymoon Experiences
Sorrento
Pompeii/Herculaneum/Vesuvius
The ancients considered it a mountain, whose silhouette dominated the whole the Gulf of Naples. An area of fascinating nature, rich in itineraries and paths. The eruption of AD 79 has shown everyone the real facade of Mount Vesuvius. The inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum have tragically discovered the true nature of the mountain, but their sacrifice has given us two of the most suggestive places in the world.
Salerno/Paestum
History, art, and nature coexist in harmony in the city of Salerno, which amazes visitors for the extraordinary beauty that discreetly and flawlessly guards: The Cathedral, the Arechi Castle, Piazza Campo with the Vanvitelli fountain, and so much more. At 40 km from Salerno, the archaeological park of Paestum, with its majestic and fascinating temples, and the Archaeological Museum, which tells the story of the city from Ancient Greece to modern times.
Caserta
The majestic Royal Palace is the favorite destination while visiting Caserta. The park is one of Europe’s most beautiful, protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, with its gardens, ponds, and fountains supplied by the historical Carolino aqueduct, the palace always leave visitors completely breathless with its stoic apartments, furniture, and works of art.
Cassino
A city with an illustrious past, economic and cultural historical capital of southern Lazio, is famous worldwide for the Abbey founded by St. Benedetto da Norcia. Among its cloisters, it is not just the monks who have a stroll, but also thousands of visitors every year, that thanks to the Abbey museum can learn about fragments of a long and troubled history, made of destructions and rebirths, the last of which dates back to the 1944 bombing.
Experience Athens
Experiencing Athens starts in the city’s throbbing center. We want each guest to experience Athens as locals do, joining in conversations, venturing to step out of the box, and to that end we offer our guests a seamless concierge service including tailor made guided walks and excursions, car or bike rentals, tour bookings, even tips and suggestions about what to see and what to do in our neighborhood’s backyard: historic Athens! Our guest relations team is geared to listen to your needs, act on them, and suggest insider tips to make your visit a truly memorable one.
Near the Acropolis
Herodion is situated in the heart of the most elegant and residential blocks of Athens on the doorstep of the new Acropolis Museum. It is surrounded by small art museums, galleries, jewelry museum, cafes and restaurants. Just below the famous pedestrian street of Dionissiou Aeropagitou under the sacred Acropolis cliff, beautiful residential peaceful blocks, old Athenian neoclassical houses hosting the Spanish Embassy, the Finish, Swedish and Norwegian Cultural Institutes. The newly opened National Museum of Contemporary Art comes as new addition in the cultural wealth in the surrounding area of Koukaki.
Just a few minutes away from us is Plaka which is world famous for its quaint small turn-of-the-century houses and busy pedestrian-only streets, where one can get away from the busy city center and stroll right into the past.
The Herodion hotel is a mere ten-minute ride to the sprawling, state-of-the-art Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center that houses the Greek National Opera and the National Library and to the Flisvos Marina, ideal for a promenade by the water or for a movie at an open-air theater. Pay homage to Poseidon, the God of the Sea at the southernmost perch of Attica, Cape Sounion where the spectacular temple stands proud, with the with the Aegean sea at its feet .
The highlights of the must-see and must-do things while in Athens:
- Acropolis / Parthenon
- Acropolis Museum
- Herodion Atticus Odeon
- National Museum of Contemporary Art
- Ancient Agora and Temple of Hephaestus
- Athens City Museum
- Kerameikos Ancient Cemetery
- Museum of Greek Folk Art
- Nomismatic Museum
- Athens War Museum
- Herakleidon Museum
- Βyzantine and Christian Museum of Athens
- Museum of Cycladic & Ancient Art
- Benaki Museum
- National Archaeological Museum
- Lalaounis Museum
