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Athens

Greece · 12 quests

History

2 quests
Socrates' Prison, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Socrates' Prison
Three chambers hide inside the hillside
Acropolis, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Acropolis
Its most famous temple was not alone

Nature

2 quests
National Garden, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
National Garden
Ancient columns lie beneath the trees
Mount Lycabettus, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Mount Lycabettus
Its two peaks hold a chapel and a theatre

Art

2 quests
Acropolis Museum, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Acropolis Museum
An ancient neighborhood lies beneath its glass floor
The Runner, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
The Runner
Glass and iron turn into a runner after dark

Food

3 quests
Pastourma, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Pastourma
Heavy spice covers this air-dried meat
Moussaka, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Moussaka
Its top layer changes with the recipe
Lamb Kleftiko, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Lamb Kleftiko
It once cooked in a sealed underground pit

Sport

1 quest
Panathenaic Stadium, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
Panathenaic Stadium
A marble stadium hosted the first modern Olympics

Party

2 quests
TAF, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
TAF
An old lane opens into a courtyard bar
The Clumsies, Athens🇬🇷 Athens
The Clumsies
A townhouse hides a bar behind its old walls

Greece

Photo quests in Athens

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Athens holds twelve quests across six categories, led by Food with three — though only just, with two in Art behind it. The one category with nothing in Athens so far is Beach.

One is tier 1, the tier kept for what a visitor would not have found on their own: Socrates' Prison. It is also the only quest here whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Athens quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The one quests in Athens the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Athens

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Athens

How many photo quests are there in Athens?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Food (3), History (2) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Socrates' Prison, National Garden and Acropolis Museum.
What is there to do in Athens beyond the obvious?
One of the 12 quests in Athens is tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Athens holds one at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quest here is Socrates' Prison, in History.
Can you do all the Athens quests on one trip?
On foot, yes. All 12 sit within 1.9 km of the middle of the Athens list, so what limits a day here is how many places you want to stop at rather than the distance between them.
Which Athens quests can you do for free?
11 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Athens means one quest: Socrates' Prison.
How do I prove I visited a place in Athens?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Athens is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Socrates' Prison fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Athens sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.