Neighborhoods In Athens

Discover the best neighborhoods in Athens with curated recommendations from our editors.

Anafiotika

Set in the shadow of the Acropolis and often compared to the whitewashed villages of the rural Greek islands, the Anafiotika quarter is populated by...

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  • 0 Things To Do

Exarchia

The neighborhood of Exarchia is full of life and largely student-central, as the National Technical University of Athens (Polytechneio) is located just a few hundred...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 10 Things To Do

Gazi-Kerameikos

Gazi-Kerameikos takes its name from the industrial gas works that even today dominate the neighborhood's landscape. The plant that used to provide gas for lighting...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 13 Things To Do

Kolonaki

Kolonaki was named after a marble column dating from the Middle Ages, probably a memento of a religious procession, that was discovered in Dexameni Square...

  • 13 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 27 Things To Do

Koukaki

This mostly transient neighborhood, from tourist-central Plaka to more residential districts of Athens, like Neos Kosmos and Petralona, was named after a pre-World War II...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 5 Hotels
  • 0 Things To Do

Makriyianni

A quiet neighborhood on the foothills of the Acropolis, Makriyianni was really put on the map by the opening of the nearby Acropolis Museum, which...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 6 Things To Do

Metaxourgeio

Once ignored as simply a transient neighborhood, Metaxourgeio has acquired its own character as an emerging artist hub. The Municipal Gallery of Athens set up...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

Monastiraki

The Agora was once the focal point of urban life. All the principal urban roads and country highways traversed it; the procession of the great...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 16 Things To Do

Plaka

Fanning north from the slopes of the Acropolis, picturesque Plaka is the last corner of 19th-century Athens. Set with Byzantine accents provided by churches, the...

  • 8 Restaurants
  • 6 Hotels
  • 20 Things To Do

Psirri

During his stint in Athens, Lord Byron stayed in Psirri, and this is where he supposedly met Thiresia-Tereza Makri, who inspired him to write "The...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 7 Things To Do

Rouf

In mid-19th century, Bavarian aristocrat Ludwig, who had arrived in Athens with King Otto, owned significant land in the Athenian neighborhood that now bears his...

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  • 0 Hotels
  • 0 Things To Do

Syntagma

From the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to Queen Amalia's National Garden, to the top of Mt. Lycabettus, to a cluster of top museums, this...

  • 11 Restaurants
  • 5 Hotels
  • 16 Things To Do

The Acropolis

Although Athens, together with its suburbs and port, sprawls across the plain for more than 240 square km (150 square miles), most of its ancient...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 6 Things To Do

Thissio

On the opposite side of the Agora is another meeting place of sorts: Thissio, a former red-light district that has been one of the most...

  • 4 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

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