No cash and wanted to visit the Acropolis? No worry!

Visiting the Acropolis? Tourists faced with empty ATMs need not to panic. Tourists wanted to feel the greatness of the ancient site can now pay by credit-card for the first time.

Visiting the Acropolis? Tourists faced with empty ATMs need not to panic. Tourists wanted to feel the greatness of the ancient site can now pay by credit-card for the first time.

People have long been asking to be able to use debit or credit cards to purchase the 12 euro ($13.5) entrance tickets to Athens’s hill-top citadel, the culture ministry said Monday, insisting that families wanting to admire the Parthenon up close would not be penalized for running short on cash.

Cash machine withdrawals on ATM’s have been capped at 60 euros per day, per card. Cards issued by foreign banks are exempt, but some tourists were coming up short Monday as ATMS across the city began to run dry.

As much as tourists to Greece are worried, Greek tourists overseas are worried as well not to be able to meet bills.

The ministry said tour operators could also buy entry passes to the site on an IOU basis, with the money to be paid once the banks re-open.

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