Sunday, 12 May 2024

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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 church of Kapnikarea is located on Ermou Street, between the squares of Syntagma and Monastiraki. Kapnikarea was built in the 11th Century on the ruins of another church. ...more
Pl. Kapnikareas & Ermou, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10563
The University of Athens is the oldest building of the "Athenian Trilogy" (built during 1839 and 1864) and was designed by the Danish architect Christian Hansen, older brother of Theophilus Hansen. In front of the Propylaia are the statues of ...more
Panepistimiou 30, Akadimia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10678
The Academy of Athens is one of the most important neoclassical buildings in Europe, designed by the Danish architect, Theophilus Hansen. The erection of the building began in 1859 and was completed under the supervision of Ernst Ziller in 1887. ...more
Panepistimiou 28, Akadimia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10679
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 Town Hall of Athens is located at Kotzia Square. A three-story building with simple exterior elements whose main characteristic is the marble propylon. The ground floor is coated with marble plaques and the openings have decorated iron bars. ...more
Athinas 63, Kotzia Square, Omonoia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10552
The National Library (Vallianeios Mansion) is part of Athenian Trilogy located in the block that is formed by the streets Eleftherios Venizelos Street (Panepistimiou), Akadimias Street and Ippokratous Street. It is the work of Theophilus Hansen and ...more
Panepistimiou 32, Akadimia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10679
At the beginning of 1974, the studios of the Agia Paraskevi Mansion were inaugurated and EIPT (National Television Broadcasting Corporation) was transformed into a public limited company known as ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Television). ...more
Leof. Mesogeion 432, Agia Paraskevi, Attica, Greece 15342
The impressive Church of Agia Marina is located in the area of Thissio on the Hill of the Nymphs and beside the Observatory of Athens. In the courtyard exists a cavernous temple that is dated from the 12th Century. ...more
Agias Marinas 1, Thissio, Athens, Attica, Greece 11851
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
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
The Russian orthodox church on Filellinon Street is dedicated to the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) and it used to be sometime ago the largest church in the city. It is cruciform with a big dome of 10 meters in diameter. It was built during the ...more
Filellinon 21, Syntagma, Athens, Attica, Greece 10557