October 2016.
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THE ATHENIAN NIGHTLIFE The Live Stages
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Posidonio Music Hall
Caramela Live Stage
The singers Yiannis Ploutarhos and Peggy Zina will be performing as of September 30th 2016.
The singer Yiorgos Tsalikis will be performing as of September 15th 2016.
Please allow us to welcome you to Athens’ pulsating night life and introduce you to the following Greek music dance stages:
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The Live Stages
The Live Stages
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Teatro Music Hall
Kentro Athinon
Enastron
The well-known Greek singers, Vassilis Karras and Notis Sfakianakis will be performing as of November 11th 2016
The renowned Greek singer Sakis Rouvas will be performing live along with the also known Greek singer, Paola as of October 2016
The renowned Greek singer Yiorgos Mazonakis will be performing live along with the also renowned Greek singer, Helena Paparizou as of November 2016
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The Live Stages
More and new live stages will be also open and ready to welcome you to listen to singers such as Anna Vissi, Antonis Remos and Nikos Vertis!
The Night Clubs
The Night Clubs
The Night Clubs
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Enzzo de Cuba Enzzo Club is considered an all-time classic, as a standard meeting point since 1997 for clubbers in the Attica area and not only. Vibrant atmosphere, great cocktails and high energy until the small hours. During
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Vinilio the day you can enjoy your espresso or traditional Greek coffee, snacks and desserts in the afternoon and lively entertainment until late at night.
Vinilio is a great favorite with dance fans. A big dance floor placed in impressive scenery, where entertainment peaks every night. Special lighting sets the rhythm and DJs Nikos and Perry play classic disco hits from the 70s and the 80s.
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The Night Clubs
The Night Clubs
Kitty Cat Kitty Cat in an arcade on central Stadiou street in the center of Athens is an intelligent combination of American and Asian elements. Situated in the location of an ex Asian restaurant, whose decor was left
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Rock n Roll almost untouched, it has a unique and attractive atmosphere. Dark red lacquered surfaces, studied lighting, a comfortable bar are focal points.
Rock n Roll is an old favorite with Athenians who prefer timeless class and naturally rock n roll music. Popular with all ages, the club operates as an all day bar-restaurant, offering great pizza made by the Neapolitan chef, juicy burgers, pasta and Learn more >
salads. Coffee and rock-tails are prepared by expert bar tenders. Parties with guest DJs, live events with rock groups, some mainstream music, make this place ideal for laid back entertainment.
Pixi is situated in a high end fully renovated industrial space in the center of Athens, in the lively nightlife district of Gazi, filled with music, pixels and electricity. Fans admit that the vibe is remarkable and this makes Pixi especially popular. The unique audiovisual experience, with 3D projections, the energy, the musical selections are some of the secrets of their success in just over a year. The team at Pixi aim to offer guests a different sound experience in town, approaching entertainment mainly with Nu-disco and Electric House.
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The Night Clubs
The Night Clubs
Pixi
Shopping in Athens
Athens has got shopping spots for all tastes, offering unique
Amongst the great high streets of the city pedestrianized Ermou is definitely the one that stands out with an abundance of shops belonging to well-known clothes franchises, as well as historic Greek businesses. The bottom end of Ermou is Monastiraki. Don’t miss out on a walk in its flee market. There you will find clothes, shoes, accessories, leather goods and the world famous Greek leather sandals. On Sundays, there’s a bazaar with collector’s items such as books, old coins, vinyl records and antique furniture. Also, take the opportunity to walk around the gorgeous picturesque antique shops of the street.
Walk in the opposite direction away from Ermou and you’ll find Kolonaki, one of the most salubrious neighbourhoods of Athens. No wonder the biggest fashion designer studios have gravitated there, specifically on Voukourestiou Street.
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bargains. How could you resist?
Go on to the colourful Central Market of Athinas street, as well as the alleys along Evripidou, Apollonos and Praxitelous Streets, full of the aromas of spices and cured meat products. Athenians choose to buy produce for their everyday needs there. Besides the famed Varvakeios meat market there is a market for fish, vegetables and other Greek products in a large variety and at excellent prices.
A Walk around Athens’ Lesser-Known Museums
Athens is a city of great cultural significance, with a recorded history of at least 3,400 years. The cultural heritage of the city’s classical era is still evident, represented by numerous ancient monuments and works of art, the most famous of all being the Parthenon. The city is home to a large number of museums, some well-known worldwide such as the Acropolis Museum and other lesser-known but equally fascinating establishments.
Museum Herakleidon | 16 Herakleidon Str, Thissio, Athens
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The Museum of Greek
Museum of Greek
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Children’s Art
Folk Art
Jewelry Museum
The Museum was founded in 1977 to collect, preserve, research and exhibit the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish life in Greece. The collection contains more than ten thousand artifacts pertaining to the domestic and religious life, as well as the history of the Greek Jews. The museum is located in central Athens.
The Museum of Greek Children’s Art is a pioneering Museum, one of the very few worldwide that exhibits exclusively drawings and three dimensional artworks created by children 5 to 14 years old.
The Museum of Greek Folk Art was founded in 1918 by poet Georgios Drosinis, archaeologist G. Kourouniotis and a group of Athenian intellectuals under the name “Museum of Greek Handicrafts.” It was given its present name in 1959. Since 1981 the Museum of Greek Folk Art provides a great variety of educational activities and opportunities for the appreciation, enjoyment and awareness of Greece’s cultural heritage.
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a unique museum devoted to the art of jewelry and the decorative arts. The museum was founded in 1993 and opened to the public, as a non-profit organization. Today the Museum’s permanent collection includes over 4000 pieces of jewelry and micro sculptures from over 50 collections designed by the museum’s founder, Ilias Lalaounis, between 1940 and 2000.
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Kallisperi 12, Athens
Nikis 39, Athens
Kodrou Street 9, Athens
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The Jewish Museum
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Museum of Greek Folk
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History Museum
Musical Instruments
Greek Gastronomy
The Athens University History Museum is located in one of the oldest residential buildings still standing in Athens today. It dates before the 18th century and it is situated beneath the imposing heights of the Acropolis. The principal aims of the Museum are the collection, preservation, study, conservation and presentation of the University’s heirlooms.
The Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments was inaugurated on June 6, 1991 and is a public entity supervised by the Ministry of Culture. It consist of a collection of 1200 Greek folk musical instruments from the 18th century to the present day, the fruit of a 40-year research and study conducted by musicologist Foivos Anogianakis.
The Museum of Greek Gastronomy is housed in a neoclassical 19th century building in the historic center of Athens. The idea of creating the Museum started in 2013 and belongs to a group of young people, who come from different knowledge fields. It is an establishment that promotes the Greek History and Culture, focusing on the gastronomy and its historical and cultural value.
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Exile Museum
The Museum is dedicated to the exile experience which is preserved through artifacts, documents, art work, photographs, newspapers, magazines and original oral history records. A considerable collection of paintings, stone reliefs, engravings, sketches and prints and other valuable objects have come under its shelter. In recent years, the museum collections have been enriched by documents referring to the prison and concentration camp experience in Greece as well as that of political refugees. 31 Agion Asomaton str. Keramikos, Athens
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Athens University
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Modern Pottery
Museum Herakleidon has been bringing art, education, and culture to the general public since 2004. It aspires to help prepare young people, both intellectually and emotionally, to face the growing demands of our world, both today and tomorrow. The inspiration for this endeavor comes from the founders Paul and Anna-Belinda Firos.
The Centre for the Study of Modern Pottery was founded in 1987 by Betty Psaropoulou with the aim at housing articles and information collected by herself in the course of her extensive research and wide traveling all over Greece. Since 1987 the center has become an institution functioning as a museum, research and educational center intending to preserve showcase Modern Greek pottery, from the early 19th century until now.
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Museum
16 Herakleidon Str, Thissio, Athens 4-6 Melidoni Str. – Keramikos, Athens
Strolling around town you’ll pass through all Athens’ squares. Take your pick. It is entirely up to you which one. Depends on your mood. If you don’t feel like much you can just sit around on a bench and do nothing until you decide you need to move on to the next square. Love for ever. Peace and friendship. Cities without squares would be empty. So would we.
The famous Monastiraki Square
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The Best Squares of Athens
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Kolonaki is the area that the elite of Athens used to live before many of them moved out to the suburbs. It is an area full of high end shops and ritzy cafes at the base of Mount Lycabettus.
All the frenzy that used to be this square has settled, making it even more beautiful. People who used to hang out at the “Use”, closed now, can still hear its music echoing on the surrounding buildings. Also you can find out about almost everything that is going on around town this week.
All sounds and all cultures coexist in a peaceful blend. You can find anything your heart desires and more around this very square. Bars, cafes, restaurants and a lot of people. Ag. Eirinis Square is for every taste and every mood.
This small square at the centre of Monastiraki is filled with antique stores selling everything your heart desires. There is also a café here, the renowned “Loukoumi”, gaining in reputation more and more these days.
Perfect for vanilla submarines, ouzo and mezes. The open air cinema “Dexameni” and the “Café Dexameni” are also reasons to be here. Along with the feeling that time evaporates under its lavishly green trees.
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Kolonaki
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The place-to-be on a Saturday night, an old gas factory that provided Athens with gas lighting over 150 years ago, now turned into one of the most popular cultural hubs of the city. The square comes alive late evening until the early hours of the morning.
The oldest weather station of the world that also functioned as a “horologion� - a structure for calculating time by the position of the sun or through the use of a water clock (clepsydra) when the sun was not shining - was crafted using marble from Mount Penteli and erected around 47 B.C. Still standing at the slopes of the Acropolis, east of the Roman Agora, it is a 12 meter - tall octagonal structure, with figures of the wind deities depicted on each side.
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Traditional Greek Cuisine
Here in Greece, a lunch or dinner Traditional Greek Cuisine
people gathered at the table the better, for good food and good wine bring good talk.
So, sit down and prepare to enjoy yourself. You’ll start with a series of starters, mezedes. Presented on little plates and designed to open your appetite, they may be accompanied by ouzo, the national drink, schnapps-like tsipouro, or of course wine.
Enjoy authentic Greek cuisine at Tudor Hall Restaurant of King George, Athens.
Tudor Hall Restaurant of King George, Athens
From ancient times to today, ne thing has always been true: the emphasis on genuine raw materials, unadulterated and grown locally – simple dishes, cooked slowly and without fussy sauces, seasoned with herbs and olive oil rather than exotic spices, with love and imagination.
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Traditional Greek Cuisine
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This is the flavour of Greek cuisine: salt from the ubiquitous sea, olive oil, our liquid gold that contains all the goodness of the sun, and bread, the staff of life, ground from wheat, the age-old fruit of the earth. And all in one mouthful.
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