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ALL DAY BAR SEVENEIGHTEEN

Don’t miss to visit the Seveneighteen café next to Stavros Niarchos Foundation! Take a break in its special yard and enjoy your coffee accompanying your brunch. Continue your meal picking your favourite lunch among delicious choices: pasta, pizza and sandwiches. Otherwise, join Seveneighteen at sunset for an aperitif.

450 m / BUS STOP PENTELIS BUS A2 FROM SYNTAGMA SQUARE

/ 18 A Pentelis - Palaio Faliro / t: +30 211 01 39 199 / fb: seveneighteen - ALL DAY MOOD BAR / 298 Dimosthenous & 44 Euripidou St. -

Kallithea, Athens / t: +30 210 94 03 926 / fb: Barayo / insta: barayobar

CAFE-COCKTAIL BAR BARAYO

After a long visit at Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Barayo will satisfy your hunger with its large meals. Open by the morning until late at night, you have plenty of options: burgers, pizza and a variety of beers to quench your thirst. Evening tip: Relax on its terrace with a cocktail!

650 m / BUS STOP INTERAMERICAN BUS A2 FROM SYNTAGMA SQUARE

/ 14 Kolokotroni St. - Athens / t: +30 210 75 21 111 / fb: macaronikolonaki / insta: macaroni_athens

FRANK ABNEY HASTINGS

Occupation Naval Officer

1794-1828

Frank Abney Hastings was a British naval officer who fought in the War of Greek Independence and was the first commander to use a ship with auxiliary steam power in naval action. Officer

THE LEADER OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

Frank Abney Hastings was born on February 14, 1794 in Leicestershire and died on June 1, 1828 in Zacynthus of Ionian Islands in Greece. Born to a noble British family, he served in the Royal Navy. In 1819 he was discharged from the Royal Navy, and a few years later traveled to Greece to aid the Greeks in their struggle for independence. To remedy the shortcomings of the outmoded Greek navy, he obtained the financial backing of Lord Byron and the London Greek Committee to buy six steam-powered warships in 1824; but only one was completed, which was the fastest and the most modern ship in the Mediterranean at that time. Hastings sank seven Turkish ships in the Bay of Salona, off the Gulf of Corinth, an act that forced the Egyptian-Turkish fleet to break through the allied naval blockade resulting in Egypt’s withdrawal from the war. Hastings’ operations in the islands and along the coastline of the Greek mainland enabled the Greeks to expand their territory and gain important strategic points. On 25 May 1828 he was wounded in an attempt to reclaim Missolonghi, and he died a few days later from his injuries in Zakynthos.

Hastings was laid to rest beneath the arsenal of Poros, which is today a Hellenic Naval Academy, and his heart is preserved in the Anglican Church in Athens. Multiple monuments in Greece have been built in his honor and several streets have been named after him.