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Discover Athens, Piraeus, Riviera & Beaches with Athens Open Tour, the first GREEK double-decker Get on Get off bus company!
Enjoy Athens, Piraeus, Riviera & Beaches on our yellow open top buses. Get in touch with our civilization, history and architecture and learn all about the old and modern city of Athens and Piraeus in your own language with the commentary on board, available in 12 languages.

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Athens Open Tour operates all year round. Our Athens, Piraeus, Riviera & Beaches tours run daily with a 15-30 minute frequency time schedule from 08.00 until 20.00 during the summer season April to November and from 09.00 until 17.45 during the winter season December to March.

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Athens Open Tour / War Cemetery

Riviera & Beaches Line (38): War Cemetery

The site of what is now PHALERON WAR CEMETERY was chosen originally by the 4th Division as a burial ground for Commonwealth casualties of the Greek Civil War (December 1944-February 1945).

Subsequently, the military authorities, in conjunction with the Greek Government and the Army Graves Service, decided that it would be the most suitable site for a Second World War cemetery for the whole mainland of Greece. The 23rd and 24th Graves Registration Units and the 21st and 22nd Australian War Graves Units worked together to bring in graves of the 1941 campaign from the battlefields, temporary military cemeteries and from various civil cemeteries.