Saturday, 11 May 2024

Athens Directory Search

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 Conference Center of Ethniki Asfalistiki Insurance Company on Syngrou Avenue, operates under the supervision of the Athenaeum Inter Continental Athens. The building was carefully designed by the famous Italian architect Mario Botta. ...more
Leof. Syngrou 103-105, Neos Kosmos, Athens, Attica, Greece 11745
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
The Spanish-Swiss architect Santiago Calatrava donated several works for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The Athens Metro Company commissioned Calatrava to build the bridge. It was to make it easier for users of the "Katehaki" metro station to ...more
Leof. Mesogeion 136, Goudi, Athens, Attica, Greece 11527
Athens Tower is the tallest building in Greece. It is 103 meters high and is of 28 floors, while next to it there is a smaller building of 65 meters long. It was built in the area of Ampelokipoi, in between 1970 and 1973. The architectural designs ...more
Leof. Mesogeion 2-4, Ampelokipoi, Athens, Attica, Greece 11527
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 10,000-acre summer palace was the main residence of the members of the former royal family of Greece - located 27 km from the city center of Athens. The fate of the Tatoi estate and the eponymous mansion found in the densely wooded southeast ...more
Tatoi Royal Estate, Acharnes, Attica, Greece 13672
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
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
The house of the great Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos is located on the beach of the Faneromeni Monastery in Salamina Island. It was restored from 2003 to 2006 by the municipality. The famous poet lived there for many years and created his most ...more
Korydalou 33, Salamina Island, Attica, Greece 189000
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 building is the creation of 3 architects (Nikolaos Zouboulidis, Kimon Laskaris, and Constantine Papadakis). According to experts, the facade of the building imitates almost perfectly the Old Palace, designed by Friedrich von Gärtner a century ...more
Panepistimiou 21, Akadimia, Athens, Attica, Greece 10250