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Discover Metaxourgio
The district Metaxourgio of in Attica is a subburb in Greece a little north-east of Athens, the country's capital city.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Aigaleo, Dafni, Kallithea, Nea Smyrni and Vyronas. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 22°C / 72 °F
Morning Temperature | 15°C / 58 °F |
Evening Temperature | 20°C / 68 °F |
Night Temperature | 15°C / 60 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 41% |
Air Pressure | 1019 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 15 km/h (10 mph) from South-West |
Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 0% of sky |
General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Tuesday, 30th of April 2024
20°C (68 °F)
16°C (61 °F)
Scattered clouds, moderate breeze.
Wednesday, 1st of May 2024
21°C (69 °F)
19°C (66 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Thursday, 2nd of May 2024
21°C (70 °F)
20°C (68 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Wyndham Grand Athens
Stanley
White Lotus Luxury Accommodation
Best Western Candia
Athens Lotus Hotel
Rio Athens
Crystal City
Achillion
Odeon
Best Western My Athens
Videos from this area
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Athens, Greece - harsh street life
street people engaged in drug-taking activities on the plaza - view from our hotel. Athens is a super nice city by the way, so don't let this video sway you into not going.
City sightseeing by bus from Thisio (Αθήνα/Athens)
VALPARD FILMS http://valpardfilms.awardspace.com.
Opening Night Party TBEX Athens, Technopolis - Greece 1080p50 Travel Channel
TBEX Athens Opening Night Party, Technopolis English: http://blog.myvideomedia.com/tbex-2014-athens-opening-party/ Deutsch: http://blog.myvideomedia.de/2014/11/tbex-2014-athen-opening-party/.
VIETNAM GREEK PARTY OPENING @ DREAM CITY 3/10
Tο μοναδικό VIETNAM greek champagne party που όλοι αγαπήσατε μετακομίζει αυτό το χειμώνα στο DREAM CITY (DC) για να συνεχίσει...
ZER-FAM FASHION SHOW & Backstage 2012 ADDICTED TO FASHION 4/7 @ Dream City Live Stage
"Each garment is an experience ... Inside the crowded Live Stage Club Dream City of Gazi, a stunning Catwalk evolved into a spectacular show leaving the best impressions in the minds of viewers!...
Ariston hotel Athens
Ariston Hotel is a newly built 3 star superior hotel located in the center of Athens. http://www.holiday.gr/member.php?member_id=7242 For all Holiday.gr users there is a discount at:...
City Circus Athens Hostel
City Circus Hostel is an alternative travellers space for the restless voyager, the escape artist, the life acrobat. Acrobat literally means a person that lives on the edge and that is the...
Freeday 10-6-11 Κορωπί (μέρος 1 από 3)
Freeday Ποδηλάτες βόλτα στον Πειραιά από την εκδήλωση "FREEDAY gone in 60km" http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=191191487595558.
Descending Imittos Mountain
Another mtb ride to Imittos mountain. GPS data overlay with Dashware software.
O&B Athens Boutique Hotel, Athens Greece
O&B Athens Boutique Hotel is a small luxurious design hotel, located in the center of Athens, Greece. It is one of the best situated hotels of Athens, next to Acropolis, the Ancient Agora,...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Kerameikos
Keramikos is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon (Δίπυλον) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city towards Eleusis.
Temple of Hephaestus
The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill. From the 7th century until 1834, it served as the Greek Orthodox church of St. George Akamates.
Monastiraki
Monastiraki is a flea market neighborhood in the old town of Athens, Greece, and is one of the principal shopping districts in Athens. The area is home to clothing boutiques, souvenir shops, and specialty stores, and is a major tourist attraction in Athens and Attica for bargain shopping. The area is named after Monastiraki Square, which in turn is named for the Pantanassa church monastery that is located within the square.
Omonoia Square
Omonia Square is a central square in Athens. It marks the northern corner of the downtown area defined by the city plans of the 19th century, and is one of the city's principal traffic hubs. It is served by Omonia train station, used by the Athens Metro and the Ilektrikos.
Omonoia metro station
Omonoia station is an underground station in Omonoia square of Athens used by Athens Metro and ISAP. The first station opened 1895 but had been completely redesigned until 1930 as a Metro station. In 2000 the additional platforms for Line 2 was opened.
Stoa of Zeus
The Stoa of Zeus at Athens, was a two-aisled stoa located in the northwest corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was built c. 425 BC–410 BC for religious purposes in dedication to Zeus by the Eleutherios (Freedom): a cult founded after the Persian War. It is different from others in that it was a stoa rather than a temple (the common building used for religious purposes). Scholars believe the building also served other civic purposes due to its central location.
Athinas Street
Athinas Street is a street in downtown Athens in Greece. It is named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom. The street runs from Ermou Street north to Omonoia Square through the Psiri neighborhood. Its total length is nearly 1 km of which 80 m is a walkway since 1999. Until 1999, it used to access with Omonoia Square, now motorists can now access it via Lykourgos Street east to Aiolou and 28 Oktovriou (Patissi) Street and other streets. North of Lykourgos is a pedestrian walkway.
Votanikos
Votanikos is a subdivision located 3 km west of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens. The area is named after a nearby botanical garden situated to the southwest. The eastern part are residential, the western part are forested and industrialized. The subdivision has no squares but has a nearby school.
Psyri
Psyri or Psiri or Psyrri or Psirri is a gentrified neighbourhood in Athens, Greece, today known for its restaurants, bars, live music tavernas, and small number of hotels. Until the early 1990s, Psyri had a dangerous reputation, but it has now become one of the most fashionable and trendy choices in the centre of Athens for accommodation, entertainment and food hospitality.
National Theatre of Greece
The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece.
Thiseio metro station
Thiseio is an Athens Metro station, located in Thiseio at 8.603 km from Piraeus. It is located in Athens and took its name from the nearby Temple of Hephaestus which is famous as Thiseio. The station was first opened on February 27, 1869 and was renovated in 2004. It has two platforms. Thiseio station is the first railway station in the city of Athens, other than the Thiseio–Piraeus of today's line 1 of ISAP and the first railway line other than the range of the Greek government.
Pieridis Museum
Pieridis Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece. Its collection includes items dating back almost nine thousand years, from the neolithic period to the Middle Ages. They are a part of the archaeological collection of the Pierides Museum in Larnaca, Cyprus. It is situated in the Athinais Culture Center in Votanikos, about 2 km west of downtown Athens.
Municipal Gallery of Athens
The Municipal Gallery of Athens is a museum in Athens, Greece. It houses a rich collection of nearly 3,000 works from leading 19th- and 20th-century Greek artists. Formerly located on Peiraios Street on Eleftherias (Koumoundourou) Square, in October 2010 the gallery moved three blocks northwest to the corner of Myllerou and Leonidou streets on Avdi Square in Metaxourgeio.
Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery
The Centre for the Study of Traditional Pottery, also known as Psaropoulos Museum of Traditional Pottery and as Study Centre for Contemporary Ceramics is a museum in Athens, Greece. The study centre was established in 1987 to research, preserve and promote the production of traditional Greek ceramics. Since 1999 it has been located in a neo-classical building at 8 Hepitou Street in Plaka and was officially inaugurated on May 18, 2000, International Museum Day.
Technopolis (Gazi)
Technopolis (Gazi) is an industrial museum and a major cultural venue of the City of Athens, Greece, in the neighborhood of Gazi, next to Keramikos and very close to the Acropolis. It is dedicated to the memory of the great Greek composer Manos Hatzidakis, which is why it is also known as "Gazi Technopolis Manos Hatzidakis". It has been in operation since 1999 and is situated in the city's former gasworks which were founded in 1857, occupying an area of about 30.000 m2.
Melina Merkouri Cultural Center
The Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre is a municipal cultural organization in Athens, Greece. It is housed in an impressive old hat factory in Thisseio. The Centre has two permanent exhibitions, the one called "Travelogue of Athens", which presents the neighborhoods of Athens at the beginning of the 20th century, and the other "The Charidimos Shadow Theater", with figures and materials of the famous shadow theater artist. The Centre also includes the "Melina" hall, a 220 sq.m.
Gazi, Athens
Gazi is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It surrounds the old Athens gasworks, which is an industrial museum and exhibition space, widely known as Gazi, next to Keramikos and close to the Acropolis. It is home to the Technopolis of Athens, that spreads in an area of about 30.000 m2, an industrial museum of modern architecture. In the past ten years it has been growing rapidly as the new, and expanding, Athens gay village.
Metaxourgeio
Metaxourgeio or Metaxourgio or Metaxouryio (Μεταξουργείο in Greek) is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. The neighborhood is located north of the historical center of Athens, between Kolonos to the east and Kerameikos to the west, and north of Gazi. Metaxourgeio is frequently described as a transition neighborhood.
Omonoia, Athens
Omonoia is a neighborhood in downtown Athens, Greece, centered on the square of the same name and served by the Omonoia station of the Athens Metro. Historically the heart of the city, it has experienced serious urban decay in recent years, becoming plagued by drug dealing, prostitution and theft, especially in its western part. Despite that, it is still a focal point for commercial and social life in Athens, especially for the various immigrant communities.
Temple of Aphrodite Urania
The Temple of Aphrodite Urania is a temple located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens and dedicated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite under her epithet Urania. According to Pausanias, the sanctuary had a marble statue of the deity sculpted by the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias. Today, there are a few number of saved stones on the slope of the hill beside the train tracks and near the temple of her husband Hephaestus.
Temple of Apollo Patroos
The Temple of Apollo Patroos (meaning "from the fathers") is a small ruined temple of Ionic order built in 340-320 BCE. It is 10 m wide and 16.5 m long and located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens near the Stoa of Zeus. Considered to be the founder of the Ionian race and protector of families, the temple's interior had a cult statue dedicated to the god and made by the famous Greek sculptor Euphranor.
Radio Amateur Association of Greece
The Radio Amateur Association of Greece (RAAG) (in Greek, Ένωσις Ελλήνων Ραδιοερασιτεχνών - ΕΕΡ) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Greece. The society was founded in February 1958, facing great difficulties due to negative attitude of the Greek Government of the time towards amateur radio. RAAG represents the interests of Greek amateur radio operators before national, European, and international telecommunications regulatory authorities.
Kotzia Square
Kotzia Square is a square in central Athens, Greece. The square retains several charactertics of 19th century local neoclassical architecture, such as the City Hall of the Municipality of Athens and the National Bank of Greece Cultural Center.
Avdi Square
Avdi Square is a public gathering place located in the Metaxourgeio neighbourhood of Athens, Greece, bounded by Leonidou, Kerameikou, Giatrakou and Germanikou streets. On the edges of the square stand the Municipal Gallery of Athens, several cafes, theatres, businesses and residential buildings. The City of Athens renovated the square in 2008, increasing the amount and quality of greenery, improving lighting and renewing tile surfaces.
Athens Railway Station
Athens Railway Station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθήνας, Sidirodromikós Stathmós Athinón) is the main railway station of Athens, the capital city of Greece. It is located in the central quarter of Kolonos.