Sightseeing on Voukourestiou Street

A walk along Voukourestiou Street is an exciting experience with noble boutiques of the most famous designers and stunning neoclassical buildings.

At the junction of Eleftherios Venizelos Street (Panepistimiou) and Voukourestiou Streets, the most historic café-patisserie in Athens, Café Athénée (in the past "Zonar's"), is located. It was renovated preserving both its former glory and its worldly personality.

The Numismatic Museum is very close, housed in a monumental 19th Century building and residence of Heinrich Schliemann (Ilion Melathron). The café of the Numismatic Museum is in the courtyard garden of Iliou Melathron and constitutes a small green source of oxygen and rest in the center of Athens.

For your financial transactions, you will find the branches of several banks on Voukourestiou Street. If you wish to go to the theater in this area, there is the Pallas Theater in the City Link (the old building of the Army Pension Fund). In the same area is the Athenon theater, built between the years 1930-1933, based on the architectural plans of Vasilios Tsagris (1882-1941), with influences from Art Nouveau and the Viennese school of Otto Wagner.

Voukourestiou Street Sightseeing (Update 2024)

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Kolonaki

The area of Kolonaki is located north-east of Syntagma Square. Its name is derived from the Greek word «Κολωνάκι», meaning "Little Column" – which is a 2 meter column actually found in the main square.... more

Iliou Melathron

The neoclassical building of Iliou Melathron was designed and built in 1878 by Ernst Ziller, intended to be the home of archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was doing excavations in Troy (Ilium).... more

Lycabettus Hill

Lycabettus is a cone-shaped hill almost in the center of Athens. It is also called “Agios Giorgis” because of the church that is built on its top since the 19th Century, replacing the older Byzantine church of Prophet Elias.... more

Numismatic Museum of Athens

The Numismatic Museum was established in 1834 and is one of the oldest museums in Greece, the few of its kind in the world and singular in the Balkans. It holds over 500,000 acquisitions – mostly coins as well as medals and gems – dated from the 14th Century until today.... more

Attica Department Store

We were told that Attica Mall in City Link gathers nearly 10,000 visitors per day. This sounds logical because it is a huge department store with many spots that host some of the "loudest" brand names in the luxury market.... more

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