Location: Athens
Top Things to do in Athens
The 10 Best Libraries in Athens, Attica
Once known for smog, traffic and tacky architecture, Athens is a city reformed thanks to fortunes brought by the 2004 Summer Olympics. Spotless parks and streets, an ultra-modern subway, new freeways, an accessible airport and all signs in perfect English make the city easily negotiable. Meriting more than a stopover en route to the islands, sophisticated Athens sites include many pillars of Western history, from the Acropolis to the Temple of Olympian Zeus, as well as treasures in the National Archaeological Museum.
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1. Library of Archdiocese of Athens
2. Epikera Bookshop
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Big variety of old, or, out of print books, due to epikera bookshop's existence the last 30 years. Visitors can enjoy a relaxing time reading or just getting informed about the greek literature.
3. Parnassos Literary Society
4. National Library of Greece
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4.5 based on 124 reviews
Reviewed By permia
It looked marvellous on the clear azure sky day of our visit. Ascending the sweeping stairway we admired its marble and soaring columns. Housing the library for well over a century, the limitations on space and its infrastructure led to planning for a new library. This opened in 2018 as part of the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Institution towards the south of the city. Currently Greek newspaper and magazine archives are kept in this landmark construct. Plans for its future use are apparently under discussion.
5. Metroon
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3.5 based on 20 reviews
This building played an important role in the political and cultural life of ancient Athens, where it served as both a temple and the state archives.
Reviewed By permia
Housed the Old Bouleuterion that originally hosted the City Council, it is still an evocative sight. Metroon was a Temple that was devoted to a Mother Goddess, examples of such being Cybele, Demeter or Rhea. The Old Bouleuterion was built around the start of the 5th century BCE to accommodate the City Council numbering 500 members. Later that century a new Bouleuterion arrived and its original home became the State Archives. A couple of centuries later the Metroon replaced it. So an interesting history of how buildings came to be replaced, with differing functions.
6. A. Lentakis Foundation of Culture and Education
7. The Ioannis Sykoutris Library
8. ASFA Library
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
9. Eugenides Foundation Library
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
10. General State Archives
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