The Pnyx forms an amphitheatre where the People's Assemblies were held, from the 6 to the 4C B.C. This was a democratic meeting of citizens discussing proposed laws where famous orators such as Themistocles, Pericles and Demosthenes spoke. Highly fre..

The Nympheion, or «hill of the Nymphs», is scattered with remains of dwellings. Its name, which is modern, comes from a dedication engraved on a rock. Also enjoy the lovely views of the Parthenon! The observatory , a neoclassical building crowning t..

This is the old Turkish district where you will feel the atmosphere of the capital under the Ottoman domination as though you were there! Here were the bazaar, the main mosques and the administrative buildings. It is now a popular commercial district..

The central market of Athens still forms a spectacle with a quite extraordinary oriental ambiance. Note especially the house of meat, the egg-sellers and, close to Sofokleous Street, the goldsmiths and moneychangers equipped with small scales. From t..

A 19C residence which is home to remarkable ancient ceramics, Tanagra figurines, busts of Sophocles and Alexander, jewels, Byzantine icons, popular art objects, etc.

This narrow street, congested with busy crowds, looks like a souk, lined with canopied stalls at the edges of which vendors call out to the customers. The shelves are crammed with a variety of objects: babouches, tsaroúhia (clogs with bobbles), car..

The Tower of the Winds, built under Julius Caesar, owes its name to the 8 winged characters, symbolising the dominant winds of Athens, carved on its eight sides. Note Boreus, the cold wind, in the shape of a bearded man preparing to blow into a conch..

Originally this was the residence of the architect Kleanthis. In 1837 it became the first university of the new Greek State. Although replaced by the present university, it retains the name «old university» and now houses various exhibitions.

This museum must be seen by all those who are interested in the history of modern Greece, i.e. the period from the fall of Constantinople (1435) to the Second World War. The rooms are devoted to Greece under the Venetian and Ottoman dominations; to t..

Grouped together at one end of this street (which takes its name from the university) are luxury hotels, grand terraced cafés, restaurants, confectioners and smart shops. The Schliemann House , an attractive residence known as the “palace of Troy” (..

Erected in 334 B.C., it is the sole survivor of the Tripodon Street monuments. It was enclosed in the French Capuchin monastery in 1669, where under Turkish domination Christian travellers stayed (Byron, Chateaubriand). Escaping the war of independen..

This museum lets visitors admire the rich colours and designs of the embroideries of the Dodecanese, Epiros, Crete and Skyros, and the variety of traditional costumes: the robust and sober garb of the nomadic Sarakatsan shepherds, the warm colours of..

Constitution Place, the centre of tourism and elegance in Athens, is dominated to the east by the old royal palace, built for Othon 1 st of Bavaria, which became the parliament in 1935. Below the palace, in front of the monument to the unknown sol..

This monumental marble entrance of the Acropolis was built by Mnesicles in the 5C B.C. From the 12 to the 15C, it was converted into a palace for the bishops and dukes of Athens. It was only in 1878 that the Frankish Tower, overlooking the right wing..

Completed in 161 B.C. this odeon bears the name of a rich Greek administrator of Roman origin who had it built in memory of his wife. In 1826 colonel Baron Fabvier, the famous French Philhellene, was able to find his way, unexpectedly, into the citad..

Devoted to preservation, restoration and research, it enables you to understand the history of the rock and its monuments, and appreciate the scale of the work undertaken. The mouldings of the Parthenon friezes and the copies of the Erechteion sculpt..

Here you will find maps showing the locations of Jewish communities in the Roman and Byzantine empires, and the routes taken by Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsular; models and watercolours presenting the costumes worn in the Ottoman empire and ..

As is indicated by the inscription of its frieze, Hadrian's gate (from 131 A.D.) separated the Greek town from Hadrian's new Roman town, which extended from the current Avenue Amalias to Illissos, now covered. Not far from the gate, notice the monume..

Admire the famous Angels' Concert by Greco, post-Byzantine Cretan icons (notably from the 17C), neo-Hellenic painting from its origins, Heptanesian paintings (from the Ionian Islands) of the 18C and canvases from the 19C representative of the Munic..

The National Garden is the old garden of Queen Amelia, developed from 1840 by the French gardener Bareaud. You will appreciate its shade and its dense vegetation, its small water features and its banks of flowers, its attractive specimens of palm tre..