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Home > Santorini Tours > Santorini Historical Tour

Enjoy personalized attention from your native Santorini guide and get an eye-opening look into historic places, listen to the in-the-know commentary, and capture marvelous island views. Discover Santorini’s wealth of history and culture in style on a guided tour at Museums of Santorini, with an art historian to guide you. Enjoy personalized attention on your special Santorini History Tour at Akrotiri Archaeological Site, Archeological Museum Fira, and Museum of Prehistoric Thira.

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€480
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  • Type: Private Tour
  • Duration: 5 hours
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  • Mobile voucher accepted
  • Instant confirmation
  • Live tour guide
    English
  • Transportation by luxury air-conditioned minibus
  • Activity location: Santorini, Greece
  • Free cancellation up to 48 hours before tour starts
  • Flexibility to customized your itinerary to your own preferences
  • Ideal choice for families
  • Step back in time on a history tour
  • Explore the Akrotiri Ruins – a prehistoric city from the Bronze Age
  • Visit the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Prehistoric Thira
Akrotiri Archaeological Site

Explore the ancient site of Akrotiri, also known as the Minoan Pompeii, which was destroyed and covered by the ashes of an enormous volcanic eruption in 1450 BC. The ancient Minoan city buried by the volcanic eruption some 3600 years ago was discovered in 1967 nearby the homonymous modern village Akrotiri, remarkably well-preserved. Pottery, furniture, advanced drainage system, and three-story buildings have been discovered at the site. Many believe the disaster and the site itself worked as the inspiration for Plato’s story of Atlantis.

Open hours in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb & March from 08:00 – 15:00.

Open hours in Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep & Oct from 08:00 am – 20:00 every day.

Archeological Museum, Fira

Then, you will continue to visit the Archeological Museum which treasures the collections from the Archaic to the Roman period most of the Ancient Thira city.

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 08:30 – 15:00 pm

Monday: closed

Museum of Prehistoric Thira

The tour continues with the visit to the Prehistorical Museum, which takes you back in time and sketches the course of the prehistoric Thira, through selected finds from various excavations, dating back to Neolithic, Minoan and Hellenistic periods onwards.

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 08:30 – 15:00

Tuesday: closed

The tour ends at the same place where you were picked up.

  • Private Guide and Driver
  • Transportation  by air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz minibus
  • Pickup and drop-off from your Hotel, Port, Airport or Cable car in Fira
  • Bottled water
  • Entrance fees
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities (optional)
Cruise passenger pick-up

The meeting point for the tour is at the cable car’s exit in Fira town. Your guide will wait for you there, holding a sign with your name. Please note, all cruise passengers with individual programs are taken to the old Port of Fira, by tender boats. From the old port, you will take the cable car up to Fira town. The journey with a cable car takes 3 minutes and costs €6. Approximate start of the tour should be 90 minutes after the scheduled arrival of the cruise ship.

Please include the name and arrival time of your ship, and full name and mobile phone number when booking of the tour in order for your pickup to be arranged.

Hotel pick-up

Your guide will meet you at the hotel entrance door

Drop-off / End Point

Same as the meeting point

  • Confirmation will be recived at time of booking
  • Infant seats available
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour. Only your group will participate

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