Plaka & Monastiraki

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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What’s around

Real places inside Plaka & Monastiraki— you’d walk to all of these.

• Πλάτανος

• Γρηγόρης

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• Αθηναϊκόν

• Ο Θανάσης

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• Μπαϊρακτάρης

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• Karyatis

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• Κιτρο

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• Centrale

• Κοτύλη

• Διόσκουροι

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• Hot Hot Burger Bar

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Places from OpenStreetMap. A snapshot — check current hours before you go.

Where it sits

The circle is Plaka & Monastiraki and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• A proper souvlaki wrap7 min walk588 m
• Varvakios Central Market7 min walk588 m
• Acropolis Museum8 min walk701 m
• Filopappou Hill14 min walk1.2 km
• The Evzones at Syntagma15 min walk1.2 km
• Lycabettus at sunset19 min walk1.6 km
• National Archaeological Museum19 min walk1.6 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 1.The Acropolis — Yes, everyone goes. Go anyway — at opening time or the last two hours, never midday in summer. Standing under the Parthenon's columns is one of the few famous things that's better than its photographs.
• 3.The Ancient Agora — Where Socrates actually walked and argued — and, unlike the Acropolis, you can wander it under trees, nearly alone. The Temple of Hephaestus in the corner is the best-preserved Greek temple anywhere.
• 6.Temple of Olympian Zeus — Sixteen colossal columns of what was once the biggest temple in Greece — it took 638 years to finish. Ten minutes, best through Hadrian's Arch on the walk between Plaka and the museum.
• 9.Anafiotika — A tiny whitewashed island village built illegally into the Acropolis slope by Cycladic stonemasons in the 1840s — and still lived in. Ten minutes of lanes barely a shoulder wide, and most tour groups walk straight past the entrance.
• 10.Monastiraki Flea Market — Sunday morning is the real thing — junk, icons, army surplus and vinyl spilling onto Avissinias Square, with the Acropolis looking down on all of it. Haggle a little; it's expected and it's fun.