High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sacred Way , in ancient Greece, was the road from Athens to Eleusis. It was so called because it was the route taken by a procession celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries. The procession to Eleusis began at Kerameikos (the Athenian cemetery) on the 19th Boedromion. In Greece today, the road from central Athens to Aegaleo and Chaidari (the old route to Eleusis) is called the Sacred Way.