One of Greece’s most famous landmarks is trialing limiting its daily visitors, starting today.
The Athens Acropolis archaeological site attracts visitors from around the world keen to marvel at the ancient cultural spot. Going forward, visitors will be capped at 20,000 a day, with a booking website keeping track of footfall and enforcing an hourly slot system.
In an interview with Greek radio station Real FM in August, Greek culture minister Lina Mendoni said that the Acropolis currently has up to 23,000 daily visitors, calling this a “huge number.”
Was just there on a hotter than Hades day around 6 PM. Still a ton of people. Everyone was trying to find shade. Staff had clear paths through people just sitting in the shade along the main path. Glad I went, but wouldn’t go back. There’s honestly not much there that you can get close to.