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Our Final Destination
... time just wandering around the main pedestrian areas in Athens. This included the Plaka- a big shop and restaurant area, Anafiotika- an un-Athens-like neighborhood at the base of the Acropolis, and the Monastiraki market area. We had fun souvenir ...
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Hill, shop and dance
... a quiet cafe (To Kouti) facing the Agora for an ice cream. We were all hungry (it was 2.30!), so we headed up the Anafiotika area for lunch. This area is on the edge of the Acropolis hill going up steps & lanes past whitewashed houses until we found ...
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Travels Part IV
... needed drink stop. After a wander down the Street of Tripods I got a tad lost (predictably) before reaching the Anafiotika Quarter, a maze of whitewashed houses in the style of those from the Cycladic islands. Following the twisting path around ...
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Old Stuff Part II
... that they mean it when they say you shouldn't mix Ambien with wine), we were very excited to arrive in Greece. We weren't that psyched for Athens as we heard it was a big, dirty, smoggy, and disgusting city (we are definitely more beach-vacation ...
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"Anafiotika" A Neighborhood Above Plaka in Athens
... so special. I am wandering in the north section around these small streets in the slopes under the Acropolis in the area called Anafiotika. It is about a cluster of small houses built by some workers who came here the mid of 19th century to build Athens. ...
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Exploring Athens
Today we flew from Istanbul to Athens, Greece. Athens was host to the 2004 Olympics. They made many improvements to the city including a new airport, highway into the city and an underground metro. There are about 11 million people in Greece ...
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WOW
... potential display is in the BM (that's British Museum to you.) Coming back to our hotel more steps to an area called Anafiotika. It is a cluster of small houses built on the slopes of the Acropolis above the Plaka. Think quaint, white washed streets and ...
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Stepping back in time in Athens
... Hadrian’s Arch and the Temple of Olympian Zeus (purportedly at one time the largest temple in Greece). We walked through the very scenic Anafiotika district with white washed buildings and blue doors. We had gyros for lunch and decided ...
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- Filopappos Hill
- Plaka
- St Paul's Anglican (Episcopal) Church
- Spathario Museum of Shadow Theatre
- Monument of Lysikrates
- Lysicrates Monument
- Gallery Demeter
- Pnyx, Arios Pagos and Philopappou Hills
- Theater of Dionysos (Theatro Dionyssou)
- Acropolis (Akropolis)
- Kanellopoulos Museum
- Greek Folk Art Museum (Museo Ellinikis Laikis Technis)
- Museum of Greek Popular Musical Instruments (Museo Ellinikon Laikon Musikon Organon)
- Pireos Street
- Tower of the Winds
- Amphiaraion Archaeological Site
- Pandrossou
- Museum of Greek Children's Art
- Church of Panagia Gorgoepikoos