Saturday, 27 April 2024

Athens Directory Search

This is the oldest surviving house of Athens, which belonged to the aristocratic family of the Athenian archon Angelos Venizelou. The house was build during in the 16th century. Now it's a museum and can be visited. ...more
Adrianou 96, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10556
Panagia Gorgoepikoos (or Agios Eleftherios) is a cruciform church with a dome that it is also called "Mikri Mitropoli" (Small Mitropolis), very accurately when one compares its dimensions to Metropolitan Church next to it. ...more
Platia Mitropoleos 8, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10556
The Parliament of Greece is housed in the famous building of Syntagma Square. The construction was created after the transfer of the capital of the young Greek Government from Nafplio to Athens, intended to be used as the home of King Otto. ...more
Hellenic Parliament, Syntagma Square, Syntagma, Athens, Attica, Greece 10557
The Gennadius Library is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern times. The library is located at Souidias Street 61, on the slopes of Lycabettus Hill, in Athens, Kolonaki. ...more
Souidias 61, Kolonaki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10676
This famous skyscraper is the OTE Megaron on Kifissias Avenue, a place that is now called “daktilidi” (def. "the ring"). The decision for the construction of the building was taken in the mid 1960's. Here is the headquarters of the largest Greek ...more
Leof. Kifissias 99, Marousi, Attica, Greece 15124
This Byzantine church was built in the 11th Century A.D. by the grandson of Emperor Michael I Rangabe, Paul Xiropotamino. It has embodied in its walls marble pillars and parts of ancient edifice. ...more
Prytaneiou & Epicharmou, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10558
The neoclassical building of Iliou Melathron was designed and built in 1878 by Ernst Ziller, intended to be the home of german archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was doing excavations in Troy (Ilium). Today it houses the Numismatic Museum of ...more
Panepistimiou 12, Syntagma, Athens, Attica, Greece 10671
Agia Irini is a beautiful church on Aiolou Street, next to the Agia Irinis Square. The church is well known for its devout atmosphere during the laudations of the Christmas holidays. ...more
Aiolou & Athinaidos, Platia Karitsi, Athens, Attica, Greece
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA), located atop the historic Hill of the Nymphs in the area of Thissio, is the first research center in the country and was inaugurated in 1846 by Baron Georgios Sinas, a Greek consul in Vienna and national ...more
Lofos Nymphon , Thissio, Athens, Attica, Greece 11810
Piraeus Tower is a building of 25 floors and 84 meters height. It was built between 1972 and 1975. Today public buildings operate here, under the Municipality of Piraeus. Recently, there are plans for a comprehensive renovation of the building, which ...more
Akti Posidonos 2, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18531
The Monastery of Kaisariani is surrounded by a tall fence with two gates, one on the east and one on the west side. The monastery was built in the 11th Century and was dedicated to the Presentation of the Virgin Mary. ...more
Monastery of Kaisariani, Vyronas, Attica, Greece 16121
Under the new modern hotel building (Electra Metropolis Hotel) is an old small church wedged between two columns. This is the church of ''Agia Dynami'' – the Holy Power of the Virgin. Do not pass it by, for it is an oasis of simplicity that has ...more
Mitropoleos & Pentelis, Plaka, Athens, Attica, Greece 10557