Votanikós
District of Aigáleo
Attica - Greece

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.

Located at 37.9783, 23.7186 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Ancient cemeteries in Greece, Areas of Athens, Ancient Greek pottery, Mycenaean sites in central Greece, Ancient Greek sites in Greece, Iron Age sites in Greece, Landmarks in Athens

Platonic Academy

The Academy was founded by Plato (424/423 BC – 348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) studied there for twenty years (367 BC – 347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.

Located at 37.9925, 23.7081 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Plato, Neoplatonism, Hellenistic civilization, 380s BC establishments, Educational institutions established in the 4th century BC

Athens School of Fine Arts

The Athens School of Fine Arts (Greek: Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών), is Greece's premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students.

Located at 37.962, 23.689 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Art schools in Greece, Greek art, Education in Athens, Culture in Athens, Educational institutions established in 1837, 1837 establishments in Greece

Agricultural University of Athens

The Agricultural University of Athens (Greek: Γεωπονικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) is located in Athens, at the neighborhood of Votanikos.

Located at 37.9839, 23.7056 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Universities in Greece, Agricultural universities and colleges, Education in Athens, Educational institutions established in 1920

Panathinaikos F.C. New Stadium

Panathinaikos new stadium is a multi-use sports complex in Athens, Greece, that will host all departments of the Panathinaikos sports club. The arena will be located in the historic Votanikos area, west of downtown Athens. The Votanikos area, is a sizeable industrial zone that has been in decline for several decades. It currently houses mostly vacant, dilapidated storage and industrial facilities and has been in urgent need of redevelopment and improvements in infrastructure.

Located at 37.9861, 23.6908 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos FC, Football venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens, Proposed stadiums

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.

Located at 37.9758, 23.7164 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium

Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium is a football stadium in Egaleo, Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football games and is the home stadium of Egaleo FC. it has an effective capacity of 8,217 people. It was built in 1968 and named after Stavros Mavrothalassitis mayor of Egalo in the 1960s. Ilisiakos F.C. also use the stadium currently.

Located at 37.9872, 23.676 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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1968 establishments, Football venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens

Akadimia Platonos

Akademia (or Akadimia) Platonos is a subdivision located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens. The area is named after the Plato's Academy. The area are is densely populated, with people mainly living in eight to ten storey buildings. Major streets bordering this subdivision include Lenorman Avenue to the east, Palamidou Street to the south and Athinon Avenue (GR-8 and GR-8A and E90 westbound. The two main squares are Akademia Platonos and Metaxa.

Located at 37.9933, 23.7117 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Thiseio

Thiseio, also Thisseio, Thisio and Thissio is the name of a neighborhood in downtown Athens, Greece, northwest of the Acropolis, 1.5 km southwest of downtown, and 1 km southwest of city hall; its name derives from the Temple of Hephaestus, also known as Τhiseio, as it was, in earlier times, considered a temple of Theseus. The area also takes in the ancient Agora, Petralona, and Kerameikos, which includes the Assomaton Square. In Assomaton Square there is Agioi Assomatoi church.

Located at 37.975, 23.7167 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Petralona station

The Petralona Station is an ISAP station, located in Petralona 7.016 km from Piraeus. It is located in Athens and took its name from the neighbourhood in Athens, It was first opened on November 22, 1954 and features two platforms. It was renovated in 2004.

Located at 37.9685, 23.7091 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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ISAP stations

Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelos station

Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelos station (Greek: Σταθμός Ταύρου-Ελευθερίου Βενιζέλου Stathmos Tavrou-Eleftheriou Venizelou) is a train station in Athens metropolitan area, Greece. The station is on the Piraeus-Kifissia line of Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways (ISAP), at 6.171 km from Piraeus. It is located in the municipality of Tavros, near the boundary with Kallithea and is named after the former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.

Located at 37.9625, 23.7034 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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ISAP stations

Kallithea metro station

Kallthea- or Kalithea Station is an Attiko Metro Green Line (Line 1) is an ISAP station, located in Kallithea and is also named after, 5.558 km from Piraeus. It is located in by the boundary with Kallithea. The second name is named after the Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. The station was first opened on July 1, 1928, and was renovated in 2004. The station contains two platforms. Its nearest station is 600 metres to the east.

Located at 37.9603, 23.6968 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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ISAP stations, Railway stations opened in 1928

Athens Arena

Athens Arena (Athinon Arena) is a grand music venue in Athens, Greece. It is a large-scale convention centre and concert hall, designed to host up to 3,000 people seated. It is owned by the Papatheoharis Group. Artists featured in the Arena are Marinella, Antonis Remos Sakis Rouvas and Greek superstar Anna Vissi. Since 2005, it is the venue for the Greek preselection final for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Located at 37.9717, 23.7041 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Music venues in Greece, Buildings and structures in Athens, Culture in Athens, Visitor attractions in Athens

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.

Located at 37.9834, 23.7109 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Museums in Athens, Archaeological museums in Greece

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.

Located at 37.9828, 23.7194 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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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.

Located at 37.9781, 23.7141 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Museums in Athens, Gas museums, Science museums in Greece

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.

Located at 37.9761, 23.7143 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Cultural organizations, Art museums and galleries in Greece, Museums in Athens

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.

Located at 37.9781, 23.7144 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Neighbourhoods in Athens, Entertainment districts

Petralona

Petralona is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece located between Thiseio and Kallithea. Athenians refer to Petralona either as Ano (upper) Petralona or Kato (Lower) Petralona, where Ano Petralona is the area between the hill of Filopappou and the railway and Kato Petralona the area between the railway and Piraeus Street.

Located at 37.9663, 23.7105 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Profitis Daniil, Athens

Profitis Daniil is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece.

Located at 37.9875, 23.7072 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Rouf, Athens

Rouf is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece.

Located at 37.9736, 23.7036 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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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.

Located at 37.9843, 23.7162 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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International Amateur Radio Union member societies, Organizations based in Greece, Organizations established in 1958

Peristeri Indoor Hall

Peristeri Indoor Hall (also known as Peristeri Arena and Andreas Papandreou Arena) is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Peristeri, a western borough of Athens, Greece. The arena is named after Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece, who died in 1996. It is located next to next to Peristeri Stadium. It is owned by the municipality of Peristeri. The seating capacity of the arena is 4,300.

Located at 38.0037, 23.6888 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Indoor arenas in Greece, Basketball venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens

OAED Vocational College shooting

The OAED Vocational College shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 10, 2009, at the Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED) vocational college in Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, Greece, during which a gunman shot one student and two civilians before fatally shooting himself in a nearby park. The gunman was a 19-year-old sophomore student, of Georgian decent, Dimitris Patmanidis who was studying car electronics at the college.

Located at 37.9759, 23.6791 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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2009 crimes, 2009 in Greece, University shootings

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.

Located at 37.9843, 23.7206 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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