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Delve into Anafiótika
The district Anafiótika of Athens in Nomarchía Athínas (Attica) is a subburb in Greece and is a district of the nations capital.
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: Dafni, Vyronas, Nea Smyrni, Kallithea and Kaisariani. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 22°C / 71 °F
Morning Temperature | 15°C / 58 °F |
Evening Temperature | 20°C / 68 °F |
Night Temperature | 16°C / 60 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 39% |
Air Pressure | 1015 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 9 km/h (5 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 72% of sky |
General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Sunday, 28th of April 2024
23°C (73 °F)
17°C (62 °F)
Sky is clear, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 29th of April 2024
22°C (72 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Tuesday, 30th of April 2024
22°C (71 °F)
18°C (64 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Electra Palace Athens
Herodion
AthensWas
Athens Studios
Airotel Parthenon
Athens La Strada
Athens Status Suites
Athens Gate Hotel
Ava Hotel App. & Suites
Foivos Hotel
Videos from this area
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A Walk through the City of Athens - Greece 4K Travel Channel
Walk through Athens http://blog.myvideomedia.com/walk-through-athens/ Our walk through Athens shows impressions from our stay in Athens on occasion of the TBEX. Unser Spaziergang durch Athen.
Athen, Plaka - Griechenland HD Travel Channel
http://www.myvideomedia.de English see below [dt.] Die Plaka, die Altstadt von Athen, hat zwei Gesichter. Ein touristisches mit Souvenirläden und Restaurants und abseits der touristischen...
Fun Vacation in Parthenon of Acropolis in Greece
Free video about Acropolis of Athens. This free video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as...
Parthenon Wikipedia travel guide video. Created by http://stupeflix.com
Create your own video on http://studio.stupeflix.com/?w=1 ! The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. The Parthenon from the south. In the foreground of the image, a reconstruction...
09/26/2010 Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, Greece
Speaking of Greek ruins. Temple of Zeus is located in the city among them is special. The sunny day of the shooting, was very beautiful. ギリシャといえば遺跡。その中でも街中に...
A tram in Athensアテネの路面電車
A tram at Amalias Street near Hadrian's Arch, Athens. アテネの路面電車 ハドリアヌスの門の近くで 2013年7月撮影 camera: SONY DSC-RX100.
Griechenland I Acropolis Athen HD+
Griechenland I Akropolis by City I Was geht Story;) Die Akropolis gehört zu den Weltwunder der Antike (z.b. Sphinx, Pyramiden, Leuchtturm von Alexandria usw.). Sie steht auf einem Felsen...
Everymatic
http://www.everymatic.com Our Athens Bespoke holidays in Greece Want to experience Greece as a local? Look no further. No online forms or pre-arranged tour packages. From the moment you...
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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.
Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "edge, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city").
Plaka
Pláka is the old historical neighborhood of Athens, clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the Acropolis, and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture. Plaka is built on top of the residential areas of the ancient town of Athens. It is known as the "Neighbourhood of the Gods" due to its proximity to the Acropolis and its many archaeological sites.
Erechtheion
The Erechtheion is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece.
Tower of the Winds
The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources, might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.
Theatre of Dionysus
The Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus is a major open-air theatre and one of the earliest preserved in Athens. It was used for festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. It is sometimes confused with the later and better-preserved Odeon of Herodes Atticus, located nearby on the southwest slope of the Acropolis. Everyone believes that it was built by Dionysus, the god.
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens was erected by the choregos Lysicrates, a wealthy patron of musical performances in the Theater of Dionysus, to commemorate the award of first prize in 335/334 BCE to one of the performances he had sponsored. The choregos was the sponsor who paid for and supervised the training of the dramatic dance-chorus.
Arch of Hadrian
The Arch of Hadrian is a monumental gateway resembling – in some respects – a Roman triumphal arch. It spanned an ancient road from the center of Athens, Greece, to the complex of structures on the eastern side of the city that included the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
Old Acropolis Museum
The Old Acropolis Museum was an archaeological museum located in Athens, Greece on the archeological site of Acropolis. It is built in a niche at the eastern edge of the rock and most of it lies beneath the level of the hilltop, making it largely invisible. It was considered one of the major archaeological museums in Athens. Due to its limited size, the Greek Government decided in the late 1980s to build a new museum. The New Acropolis Museum is now built at the foot of the Acropolis.
Danish Institute at Athens
The Danish Institute at Athens (Danish: Det Danske Institut I Athen; Greek: Ινστιτούτο της Δανίας στην Αθήνα) is one of the 17 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1992, the Danish Institute focuses on archaeological research in Greece, but also operates as a cultural institute, with a programme of exhibitions and concerts. It is a contributor to the Nordic Library at Athens.
Frissiras Museum
Frissiras Museum is a contemporary painting museum in Plaka Athens, Greece. It was founded and endowed by Vlassis Frissiras, an art-collecting lawyer. Its permanent collection consists of 3000 paintings and sculptures by Greek and other European artists on the subject of the human form.
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece, created by the renowned Greek jewellery designer Ilias Lalounis. It is comprised by 24 collections of a total of over 4,000 jewels and small ornaments dedicated to the history and art of jewellery making. The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces designed in the period 1940-1992.
Athens University Museum
The Athens University Museum is a museum in Plaka, Athens, Greece. The building was a structure of the Ottoman period but fundamentally restructured between 1831 and 1833 by Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert for their architectural office. From 1837 to 1841 it housed the newly founded University of Athens.
Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou
The Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou is a museum of antiquities in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1976, it comprises the private collection of Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos which was donated to the Greek state. It is housed in the neoclassical mansion of the Michalea family, situated on the north slope of the Acropolis and built in 1864. The mansion was purchased by the Greek state in the 1960s-70's and was restored to permanently house the collection.
Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies
The Museum of the Center for the Acropolis Studies is a museum in Athens, Greece, a part of the new Acropolis Museum and its research workshops. It is housed in the Wilhelm von Weiler Building, named after the Bavarian engineer who designed it in 1834 and constructed it in 1836. After serving as a military hospital and a gendarmes barracks, it was remodelled from 1985 to 1987 and was converted to a museum.
Museum of Greek Folk Art
The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tsisdarakis Mosque in Monastiraki, which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained its current name. In 1973 the most of the collection and the main functions of the museum were moved to 17 Kydanthinaion Str. in Plaka and the mosque was annexed to it.
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments
The Museum of Popular Music Instruments (Greek: Μουσείο Ελληνικών Λαϊκών Μουσικών Οργάνων), is a museum and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in the Lassanis Mansion, Plaka, Athens, Greece. It displays about 600 Greek musical instruments from the last 300 years and has as many more in store.
Hellenic Children's Museum
The Hellenic Children's Museum in Athens, Greece is located in two houses specifically designed for use by children. The museum also features in the book, The Athens Assignment.
Anafiotika
Anafiotika is a scenic tiny neighborhood of Athens, part of old historical neighborhood called Plaka. It lies in northerneast side of the Acropolis hill. First houses were built in the era of Otto of Greece when workers from the island of Anafi came to Athens in order to work as constructor workers in the refurbishment of King Othon's Palace. The first two inhabitants were G. Damigos, carpenter and M. Sigalas, construction worker.
East Propylon
The East Propylon is the eastern entrance of the Roman Agora in Athens. Built in 19-11 BCE, it constituted of 4 Ionic columns made of gray Hymettian marble.
Odeon of Athens
The Odeon of Athens or Odeon of Pericles in Athens was a 4000 m² odeon, built at the south-eastern foot of the Acropolis in Athens, next to the entrance to the Theatre of Dionysus.
Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus
The Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus was a no walled open-air sanctuary dedicated to Zeus Polieus (city protector) around 500 BC on the Acropolis of Athens, sited to the Erechtheion's east. None of its foundations have been discovered and its trapezoid plan and many entrances have been worked out from rock cuttings on the acropolis. The eastern area of the sanctuary is thought to have housed the oxen for the annual Bouphonia or ox-sacrificing. Its main entrance had a pediment.
Sanctuary of Pandion
The Sanctuary of Pandion was an open-air sanctuary or shrine at the south-east corner of the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to Pandion I or Pandion II. It is 40m deep and 17.5m wide
Stoa of Eumenes
The Stoa of Eumenes is a stoa on the acropolis of Athens, sited between the Odeion of Herodes Atticus and the Theater of Dionysos. It was built against the slope of the hill (meaning it needed a retaining wall supported by piers and round arches. It is named after its builder, Eumenes II of Pergamum . It was two-storied, 46m longer than the Stoa of Attalus and unlike it had no rooms behind its two-aisle hall, meaning it was designed for promenading rather than business.
Fethiye Mosque (Athens)
The Fethiye Mosque (Greek: Φετιχιέ τζαμί; Turkish: Fethiye Camii, "Mosque of the Conquest") is a 15th-century Ottoman mosque in central Athens, Greece. It was built in 1456/1458, soon after the Ottoman conquest of the Duchy of Athens. It is located on the northern side of the ancient Roman forum, near the Tower of the Winds, and was built on the ruins of a middle Byzantine basilica. During Ottoman times, it was commonly known as the "Wheatmarket Mosque".
Dionysiou Areopagitou Street
Dionysiou Areopagitou Street is a pedestrianized street, adjacent to the south slope of the Acropolis in the Makrygianni district of Athens. It is named after Dionysius the Areopagite, the first Athenian convert to Christianity after Apostle Paul's sermon, according to the Acts of the Apostles. The street runs from east to west.