Discover the City Center

Despite the justified worries of the city planners during the end of the 19th century, the prospect of a center supporting the growth that Athens would reach as a city never mater...

As meeting places of the masses in the same way that we often see happening in squares of other countries, the squares of Athens are smaller in size and full of life.

Since the 5th century BC it was evident that few were the parks and the green zones in general, inside the city, which explains the droughts that always tormented Athens.

If you have ever been in even-level cities, you should have notices that they lack points offering view. This may be the essential difference from the cities with hypsometrical ra...

The prevalence of Christianity and the construction of the first Christian churches during the 5th Century A.D. greatly influenced the shaping of the city of Athens.

The neoclassicism flourished in Athens when it was the architectural style followed by all of the architects who were responsible for the reconstruction of the capital by order of...

The City of Athens is a magnificent museum of architecture. Buildings from the ancient times to the modern and neo-classical era melt into a urban pot to produce a city environmen...