On a budget, Acropolis & Parthenon still earns its price.
€20 (summer) / €10 winter; €30 combo ticket covers 7 sites
Standing under the Parthenon's columns with the city sprawling below genuinely lands as a 'so this is it' moment, and the marble glows gold at the edges of the day. The honest catch: midday in summer it's a slow shuffle of thousands across blazing, shadeless rock with little signage, and the scaffolding and restoration cranes are nearly always somewhere in your photo.