Thursday, 25 April 2024

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The Melina Merkouri Cultural Center is housed in an impressive neoclassical building in Thissio and is a municipal cultural institution. The center has a hall "Melina Merkouri Hall" with 220 square meters, which hosts temporary exhibitions, events and concerts, but also seminars and meetings. Another room with 380 square meters and a height of 5 meters is intended for large-scale exhibitions. ...more
Iraklidon 66, Thissio, Athens, Attica, Greece 11851
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The visitor center of the Penteli Astronomical Station on Koufos Hill on the Mount Pentelic has been operating since 1995 in a beautiful marble building with a rotating 14 m wide hemispheric dome. ...more
Vasileos Pavlou & I. Metaxa, Penteli, Attica, Greece 15236
In the area of the Isthmus of Corinth is the Corinth Canal that connects the Saronic Gulf with the Corinthian Gulf. The waterway was inaugurated in 1893 and is an important hub for maritime transport that serves 12,000 ships annually. ...more
Canal of Corinth, 20100
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The Byzantine and Christian Museum was founded in 1914 on the premises of the Academy of Athens and was transferred to Villa Ilissia in 1930. It is an outstanding national museum and one of the most important in the world of the Byzantine ...more
Leof. Vassilisis Sofias 22, Riggilis, Athens, Attica, Greece 10675
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Constructed in 1956 in the area of Markopoulo to house artifacts derived from excavations at the sanctuary of Artemis in Vravrona, this small museum is found less than one kilometer away from the Vravrona archaeological site. This was considered one of the most important places of worship in all Attica. ...more
Archaeological Site of Vravrona, Markopoulo, Attica, Greece 19003
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The Archaeological Museum of Lavrio is found at the entrance of the city coming from Mesogeia. It is frequently visited by numerous schools as part of educational programs. It is a ground floor structure built in the 1970s. ...more
Agias Paraskevis & Leoforos Souniou, Lavrio, Attica, Greece 19500
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The Electric Railways Museum was created in 2005 by Electric Railway employee Manolis Fotopoulos, and with a collection of 2,000 items (exhibition & warehouse) with over 3,000 books, documents, and photos, it will constitute the foundation for its ...more
Akti Kallimasioti 275, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18545
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TAF - The Art Foundation is one of the most active and creative groups in Athens. A team of collaborators discovered an abandoned building in the center of Athens and originated an independent cultural project focusing on participatory culture ...more
Normanou 5, Monastiraki, Athens, Attica, Greece 10555
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens has been created to give an official location for Hellenic and foreign artists to organize exhibitions and show their own collections. ...more
Kallirrois & Frantzi, Koukaki, Athens, Attica, Greece 11743
This association organizes the "Athens Open Air Film Festival" and the "Athens International Film Festival", to highlight lesser-known genres and filmmakers of independent cinema in Greece. ...more
Louizis Riankour 64, Ampelokipoi, Athens, Attica, Greece 11523
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The Benaki Toy Museum displays more than 3,000 toys and childhood objects originating from Greece (from antiquity to 1970), Europe, America, Africa, Asia, and the East. The museum is also housed in a 19th Century building, which resembles a tower and ...more
Poseidonos & Tritonos 1, Palaio Faliro, Attica, Greece 17561
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Founded in 1935, the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus moved from the Municipal Library in 1985 to the archaeological site of the Hellenistic theater of Zea. The mission of the museum is to host the antiquities which resulted from the excavations in ...more
Charilaou Trikoupi 31, Piraeus (Center / Port), Piraeus, Attica, Greece 18536