Location: Monastiraki
Top Things to do in Monastiraki
Things to do in Athens, Attica: The Best Museums
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.
Restaurants in Athens
1. Monastic Art Athens
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
The Monastic Art store, located in the center of Athens, very close to the Metropolis of Athens, is the premier location to find the finest Byzantine Art reproductions, souvenirs, icons, jewelry, crosses, Monastic food products, and cosmetics.
2. Taf The Art Foundation
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4.5 based on 227 reviews
TAF/The Art Foundation, opened in 2009 and is an innovative multi-purpose culture space in the heart of Athens featuring a contemporary art gallery along with a fabulous courtyard café-bar and a shop. TAF Gallery organizes and hosts both international and local group exhibitions and cultural events, workshops, performances and film screenings. TAF Shop promotes Greek design and supports local production & creativity. Through its dynamic collaboration with contemporary designers and artists from all over Greece it features special collections of clothing, jewelry, accessories, ceramics and souvenirs. TAF Bar operates seven days a week from mornings till early hours, serving coffees, drinks, exclusive cocktails and snacks using ingredients from small Greek producers.
Reviewed By kostashio - Athens, Greece
Great little place with a strong sense of identity. Nice music and good drinks but when you go there, you are really there for the ambiance. There is always some kind of art installation there but I would recommend the older ones that were not as loud and modern, rather more artistic and "out there"
3. Museum of the Ancient Agora
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4.5 based on 718 reviews
Reviewed By ErikFindlay
This is a great opportunity to view a classic Greek building in full maintenance. Notice the unusual split colonade with 2/3 riffed (top) and 1/3 round (bottom) columns. Notice the decorative end blocking ceramics/terracotta floral deign and corner designs of the roof - truly unusual - these where on all the original roofs of the ancient Greek temples - Inside take a look at the many astonishing artifacts stored in this ancient area of original Greece: the Angora: a mix of market and political scene under one roof - an early mall. Close by find the tower of the eight winds with the first public reliable clock of the ancient world based on water evaporation and dripping. Notice how the one city was grounded on the foundations of the previous. Here you get the best picture views of the Acropolis and temple of Hephestus approximately 4,000 years old, and with the inner sanctuary still intact.
4. Museum of Illusions Athens
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4.0 based on 493 reviews
The Museum of Illusions in Athens brings you a space suitable both for social and entertaining tours into the world of illusions which has delighted all generations. It’s a perfect place for new experiences and fun with friends and family. Not only is it a place for children who adore coming, but also a place for parents, couples, grandmothers and grandfathers.
Reviewed By alfad902 - Stockholm, Sweden
Amazing and fun museum in the center of Athens, take a friend with You and Have a great time. The museum stuff is Amazing and super friendly, will make sure that You will get great photos!
5. Stoa Avissinias
Stoa Avissinias is a reputable shop in the old part of Athens City and Central Antiques market located in Avissinas Square. With respect to our fine values of art & collecting, we sell exquisite items in our shop!
