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Athens Oct 2 2 - 2 4, 2018 83 ATHENS OCT 2 2 - 2 4, 2018 Day and Night Guide #EndeavorISP CONTENTS CITY CENTER MAP .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 WALKING & SIGHTSEEING ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 DAY TRIP ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 MUSEUMS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 SHOPPING ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 RESTAURANTS & TAVERNS @ CITY CENTER ................................................................................................................... 14 RESTAURANTS AROUND THE CITY CENTER ................................................................................................................... 15 SEASIDE .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 FAST FOOD ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 COFFEE, SNACKS & DRINKS ................................................................................................................................................... 19 WINE BARS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 OUR SPONSOR ............................................................................................................................................................................. 22 5 ATHENS CITY CENTER 7 WALKinG & siGhtseeinG Acropolis Dionysiou Areopagitou Zappeion Hall Anafiotika Literally «high city,» the Acropolis, is Greece’s great You can also walk through Dionysiou Areopagitou, Walking towards Syntagma square, you can also see Near the famous Plaka district where you see the marvel. As you begin to ascend the sacred hill a one of the most impressive streets in Athens with the National Gardens and the beautiful neoclassical statue of Melina Merkouri, you can get a feel for life breathtaking view of the city below will unfold. You an amazing view of Acropolis and Parthenon. Pay Zappeion Hall, in front of which tower the surviving at street level strolling through Anafiotika, a 19th will see the glorious monuments of the Acropolis attention to the buildings on the street’s left side. columns of the Temple of Zeus and Hadrian’s century neighborhood on the northern slopes of the such as, the Parthenon, the Erectheion, the Propylaia, Most of them were built at the end of 19th century Arch. Your tour can continue towards the House Acropolis hill, beside the entrance to the Agora. The the Athena Nike Temple, the Agrippa Monument and beginning of 20th century and are of neoclassic of the Greek Parliament and the Monument to the masons who built it hailed from the island of Anafi, and the surrounding monuments such as the or modernistic type representing the area’s elegance. Unknown Soldier and watch the changing of the and were brought here by King Otto I to build his Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Ancient Agora, the (Metro station: Acropolis) guards. (Metro station: Syntagma) palace. Nestled above Plaka, Athens’ center, and Observatory as well as the Philopappos, Mars, and bustling Monastiraki, the old bazaar, Anafiotika Pnyx Hills. (Metro station: Acropolis) seems far removed. (Metro station: Acropolis) 9 WALKinG & siGhtseeinG Gazi Avissynias Square SNFCC Presidential Guard In the evening, you can move around the metro at On Sunday morning, you can make your way to www.snfcc.org An elite unit of young men who guard the Monument Thiseio or Kerameikos to find countless eateries, Monastiraki and the flea market at Avissynias Square of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Hellenic music venues and art spaces. Dominating the skyline for a jumble of curios, from books to paintings, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center Parliament, was first constituted in 1868 and is still is the gasworks turned Technopolis, a vast mixed- clothes to trinkets. (Metro Station: Monastiraki) is located 4.5km south of the center of Athens, considered a symbol of bravery. The Evzones, also use cultural center. (Metro station: Kerameikos) on the edge of Faliro Bay, and is designed as a known as Tsoliades, are required to stand guard mute multifunctional arts, education and entertainment and expressionless for 60 minutes at a time. Every complex. It includes new facilities for the National Sunday morning at 11:00, large crowds gather to Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, as watch the spectacular weekly grand changing of the well as the 210,000 m² Stavros Niarchos Park. guard, when the guards follow a specific step routine carried out in excruciating slow motion to protect CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS their blood circulation after prolonged immobility, • Sophia Vari: Forms & Contradictions working in pairs to coordinate their movements. AGORA, 01/09 - 07/10/2018 • Kostas Zafeiropoulos: Ta Peteina NATIONAL LIBRARY OF GREECE, 24/09 - 25/11/2018 Credits- SNF - Yiorgis Yerolymbos 11 Day TRIP MUseUMS Cape Sounion Acropolis Museum Byzantine Museum Benaki Museum At Cape Sounion, 70km south of Athens, the Temple www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en www.byzantinemuseum.gr/en www.benaki.gr of Poseidon stands on a craggy spur that plunges 65m to the sea. Built in 444 BC – same year as the The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum The Byzantine and Christian Museum is centered on The Benaki Museum ranks among the major institutions Parthenon – of marble from nearby Agrilesa, it is a focused on the findings of the archaeological site – but not limited to – religious artifacts of the Early that have enriched the material assets of the Greek vision of gleaming white columns. Sailors in ancient of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, post-Byzantine and state. Through its extensive collections, it covers times knew they were nearly home when they saw to house every artifact found on the rock and on later periods which it exhibits, but also acquires, several different cultural fields and more general range the first glimpse of white, and views from the temple its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and receives, preserves, conserves, records, documents, of activities. It occupies one of the few neoclassical are equally impressive. On a clear day you can see Byzantine Greece. It also lies on the archaeological researches, studies, publishes and raises awareness. buildings, located on an exceptionally favourable location Kea, Kythnos and Serifos to the southeast, and site of Makrygianni and the ruins of a part of Roman It has over 25,000 artifacts in its possession, which in the historic centre of the city, right opposite the lush Aegina and the Peloponnese to the west. It is thought and early Byzantine Athens. It has a total area of date from between the 3rd and 20th century AD, greenery of the National Gardens and the garden of the that the temple was built by Iktinos, the architect of 25,000 square meters, with exhibition space of over and their provenance encompasses the entire Presidential Mansion. (Metro Station: Syntagma) the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens’ Ancient Agora. 14,000 square meters, ten times more than that of Greek world, as well as regions in which Hellenism The building at 138 Pireos street: In 2004, the Benaki Sixteen of the slender Doric columns remain. The the old museum on the Hill of the Acropolis. (Metro flourished. (Metro Station: Evangelismos) Museum opened its new annex at the once industrial site also contains scant remains of a propylaeum, a Station: Acropolis) Rouf area that has undergone significant regeneration. fortified tower and, on a lower hill to the northeast, a As Athens’ window on contemporary art and design, this 6th-century temple to Athena. The site is a common CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS outpost is well worth a visit. The new building covers a 2 package day trip from Athens, and this is the easiest From the forbidden city: imperial apartments of Qianlong total area of 8,200 m with underground areas of 2,800 way to visit. KTEL also runs frequent buses from the 14/09/2018 - 14/02/2019 m2 and an internal courtyard of 850 m2. The exhibition Mavromateon Terminal in Athens; the buses also halls span 3,000 m2. (Metro Station: Kerameikos) stop near Syntagma. The ride along the coast road CURRENT EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS takes about two hours. • In Paper’s Night: Known and Unknown Drawings by Nikos Houliaras THE GHIKA GALLERY, 19/09 - 24/11/2018 • Yannis Moralis 138 PIREOS ST., 20/09 - 05/01/2019 • 9th Biennale of Young Greek Architects 138 PIREOS ST., 27/09 - 25/11/2018 13 MUseUMS shoPPinG Cycladic Art Museum National Museum GB Corner Gifts & Flavors Attica City Link cycladic.gr/en of Contemporary Art, www.gbcorner.gr
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