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Sanctuary of Artemis (Vraurona temple of Artemis)
Vravrona
~4.72 miles from Spata city center
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Cave of Peania (Koutouki Cave)
Athens
~4.87 miles from Spata city center
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Koutouki Cave is located on the eastern slope of Mount Ymittos, outside the town of Peania. It was discovered by accident several years ago, when a goat fell into the cave through a hole in its roof. The shepherd climbed in to rescue the animal and discovered one of Europe’s most beautiful caves. Nowadays, visitors can enter the cave through a tunnel to admire the impressive stalagmites and stalactites. A guided tour of the cave starts every 30 minutes. It can be reached from the city centre by car in an hour.
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Kaisariani Monastery (Kessariani)
Athens
~6.45 miles from Spata city center
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Attraction type: Landmark/point of interest, Historic site, Religious site
Address: Mount Ymittos-Kaisariani
5 km from Athens Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 723 6619
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Athens Olympic Stadium
Athens
~8.75 miles from Spata city center
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Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Moussikis)
Athens
~8.93 miles from Spata city center
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Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium (Panathinaikos Stadium)
Athens
~9.00 miles from Spata city center
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Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium is the football ground Panathinaikos has played for most of the years of its existence, since its foundation back in 1908. The stadium is named after deceased club president Apostolos Nikolaidis.
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Mall Athens
Athens
~9.03 miles from Spata city center
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The Mall Athens is a major shopping mall in Athens, Greece. It was the first of the kind to be constructed in Greece and one of the largest shopping and leisure centres in Southeastern Europe. From another point of view, the Mall Athens may be the largest illegal construction in Europe, according to a ruling by the greek Supreme Court in 2003 that ruled against its construction, judging it against the Constitution. The Mall Athens is located close to the Athens Olympic Stadium in the suburb of Maroussi and was opened to the public on November 25, 2005. It has approximately 200 outlets for commercial and entertainment use, spread over four levels, and covers about 58,500 square meters with 90,000 square meters of underground space. Built under the pretext of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, i...
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Athens National Art Gallery
Athens
~9.17 miles from Spata city center
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Byzantine Museum (Vizantino Museo)
Athens
~9.45 miles from Spata city center
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This is your place to go to see a massive collection of all different types of art, sculptures and artifacts when you are visiting Athens, Greece. The Byzantine Museum houses some of the richest collections of Christian art from the Byzantine era. Not only that, but the museum also boasts some of the best collections of art that dates back to the times of the Minoans. Whether or not you are a fan of ancient history, you will be absolutely intrigued with what the Byzantine Museum has to offer.
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Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
Athens
~9.55 miles from Spata city center
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The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation - Museum of Cycladic Art is one of the great museums of Athens. It houses a magnificent collection of artifacts of Cycladic art.
The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. Starting in the early 1960s, the couple collected Greek antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades islands of the Aegean Sea. The Museum's main building, erected in the centre of Athens in 1985, was designed by the Greek architect Ioannis Vikelas. In 1991, the Museum acquired a new wing, the magnificent neo-classical Stathatos Mansion at the corner of Vassilissis Sofias Avenue and Herodotou Street
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Lycabettus Hill
Athens
~9.56 miles from Spata city center
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Athens has a couple of vantage points besides the Acropolis, from which you can get superb views of the city. Lycabettus Hill is really a limestone rock reaching almost 1,000 feet into the once-crystalline Athenian sky. In the evening, the top half is floodlit, and from the Acropolis it looks something like a giant souffle. By day, it's a green-and-white hill toppoed by a tiny, flaringly white church, Agios Georgios. It’s a nagging challenge, and sooner or later you’re to want to climb it. Don’t try to walk up (pilgrims used to, but it’s an Everest for the faithless), and don’t try to take a cab, because it only goes half-way and you still have quite a hike to get to the top. Take the two-minute funicular up the southeast flank. To get there, follow the “telepherique” signs to the corner o...
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Athens Presidential Mansion
Athens
~9.66 miles from Spata city center
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Benaki Museum
Athens
~9.66 miles from Spata city center
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The Benaki Museum, established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in downtown Athens, Greece. The museum houses Greek works of art from the prehistorical to the modern times, an extensive collection of Asian art, hosts periodic exhibitions and maintains a state-of-the-art restoration and conservation workshop. Although the museum initially housed a collection that included Islamic art, Chinese porcelain and exhibits on toys, it's 2000 re-opening led to the creation of satellite museums that focused on specific collections, allowing the main museum to focus on Greek culture over the span of the country's history.
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Panathenaic Stadium (Panathinaiko Stadio)
Athens
~9.68 miles from Spata city center
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The Panathinaiko or Panathenaic Stadium (Greek: ?a?a???a??? st?d??), also known as the Kallimarmaro (?a???µ??µa??, i.e. the "beautifully marbled") in Athens is the only major stadium in the world built entirely of white marble (from Mount Penteli). It should not be confused with the Panathinaikos football pitch (officially called the Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium) at Alexandras Avenue.
In ancient times it was used to host the athletic portion of the Panathenaic Games in honour of the Goddess Athena. During classical times the stadium had wooden seating. It was remade in marble by the archon Lycurgus in 329 BC and was enlarged and renovated by Herodes Atticus in 140 AD, to a seated capacity of 50,000. The remnants of the ancient structure were excavated and refurbished, with funds provide...
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Greek Evangelical Church (Elliniki Evangeliki Ekklisia)
Athens
~9.81 miles from Spata city center
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The Greek Evangelical Church (Greek: ???????? ??a??e???? ?????s?a Elliniki Evangeliki Ekklisia) is a Protestant denomination in Greece.
It dates back to 1858 when the first Greek Evangelical, Mihail Kalapothakis started publishing the magazine Astir tis Anatolis (Star of the East) which is still published today. He gathered a group of followers thus forming the first Greek Evangelical community and organized Sunday School for children as well as issuing the Efimeris ton Paidon (Newspaper of the Children) in 1868. The first Greek Evangelical Church was built in 1871 in the center of Athens, which was demolished and rebuilt in 1956 due to the increasing number of followers. Greek Evangelicalism spread also through the Greeks in the Ottoman Empire, the first Greek Evangelical community in As...
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Zappeion Hall
Athens
~9.89 miles from Spata city center
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The Zappeion is a building in the National Gardens of Athens in the heart of Athens, Greece. It is generally used for meetings and ceremonies, both official and private.
In 1869, the Greek Parliament allocated 80,000 m² of public land between the Palace Gardens and the ancient Temple of Olympian Zeus, and also passed a law on 30 November 1869, "for the building works of the Olympic Games", as the Zappeion was the first building to be erected specifically for the revival of the Olympic Games in the modern world. The ancient Panathenian stadium was also refurbished as part of the works for the Olympic Games. Following some delay, on 20 January 1874, the cornerstone of the building was laid; this new building would be designed by Danish architect Theophil Hansen. Finally, on 20 October 188...
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Greek Parliament (Hellenic Parliament)
Athens
~9.91 miles from Spata city center
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The Hellenic Parliament (Greek: ????? t?? ???????; transliterated Vouli (also Boule) ton Ellinon) is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House (Old Royal Palace), overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece. It is a unicameral legislature of 300 members, elected for a four-year term. During 1844-1863 and 1927-1935 the parliament was bicameral with an upper house, the Senate and a lower house, which retained the name Vouli.
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Athens National Garden
Athens
~9.92 miles from Spata city center
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Numismatic Museum of Athens
Athens
~9.97 miles from Spata city center
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The Numismatic Museum of Athens is a museum in Athens, Greece. It is housed in a neoclassic building, on Panepistimiou Street, the Iliou Melathron ("Palace of Ilium") which used to be the residence of the renowned archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. The building was designed by the notable German architect Ernst Ziller.
The main exhibitions of the museum on the first floor narrate the history of coinage; the construction, dissemination, usage and the different iconography of coins in the Ancient Greek world. On the second floor there are exhibitions of Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval and of the modern era.
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Jewish Museum of Greece
Athens
~10.02 miles from Spata city center
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Jewish Museum of Greece is a museum in Athens, Greece. It was established by Nicholas Stavriyklakis in 1977 to preserve the material culture of the Greek Jews.
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Syntagma Square
Viron
~10.02 miles from Spata city center
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Syntagma Square (English: Constitution Square), is located in central Athens, Greece. The Square is named after the Constitution that King Otto was forced to grant the people after a popular and military uprising, on September 3, 1843.
The square proper is bordered by Vassileos Georgiou A' Street to the north, Othonos Street to the south, Filellinon Street to the west and Amalias Avenue to the east. The eastern side of the square is higher than the western, and dominated by a set of marble steps leading to Amalias Avenue; beneath these lies the Syntagma metro station. The stairs emerge below between a pair of outdoor cafes, and are a popular city-centre gathering place. Syntagma also includes two green areas to the north and south, planted with shade trees, while in the center of the sq...
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Temple of Olympian Zeus (Naos tou Olimpiou Dios Olympieion)
Daphni
~10.03 miles from Spata city center
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Begun in 515 BC, this huge temple was dedicated to the worship of Zeus. Its perimeter included 104 Corinthian columns, with additional columns inside the building that housed a huge gold and ivory statue of Zeus. After the temple's destruction by invaders in the 4th century AD, the marble from the ruins started to vanish as it was being used as building material for newer buildings. Nowadays, only some of the temple's columns can be seen. Their immense height is a testimony to the huge size of this sanctuary.
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University of Athens
Athens
~10.04 miles from Spata city center
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Hadrian's Arch (Pili tou Adrianou)
Athens
~10.05 miles from Spata city center
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This is one of Athens most popular monuments. It is part in ruins.
Athens is the largest city and capital of Greece, located in the Attica periphery of Southern Greece. Named after the goddess Athena, Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world with a recorded history of at least 3,000 years. Today, the Greek capital is Europe's 8th largest conurbation , a bustling and cosmopolitan metropolis with an urban population of 5 million people. The Athens metropolitan area is the centre of economic, financial, industrial, cultural and political life in Greece. The city is also rapidly becoming a leading business centre in the European Union. Athens has been a popular destination for travellers since antiquity. Over the past decade, the infrastructure and social amenities of Athens have bee...
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Greek Folk Art Museum
Athens
~10.07 miles from Spata city center
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The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was originally 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. Other annexes are the old "Public Baths" at Kyrrestou 8 and one at Thespidos 8, both also in Plaka.
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National Library of Greece
Athens
~10.14 miles from Spata city center
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The National Library of Greece (Greek: ?????? ??ß???????) is situated near the center of city of Athens. It was designed by the Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, as part of his famous Trilogy of neo-classical buildings including the Academy of Athens and the original building of the Athens University.
The original idea for establishing a National Library came from the philhellene Jacob Mayer, in an August 1824 article of his newspaper Greek Chronicles, published at Messolonghi, where Mayer had been struggling alongside Lord Byron for Greece's independence. Mayer's idea was carried out in 1829 by the new Greek government of John Kapodistrias, who grouped together the National Library with other intellectual institutions such as schools, national museums, and printing houses....
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Museum of the City of Athens (Vouros Eftaxias)
Athens
~10.18 miles from Spata city center
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This stately mansion (dating back to 1833) served as the royal residence between 1836 and 1843. Now a museum, it recreates the everyday life of the first Greek king during the 1840s, with exhibits such as the kitchen, the throne room, the library and the study. Also very interesting is the 1:1000 scale model of Athens which shows the city as it was in 1842. There are many 19th-century paintings displayed throughout the museum, as well as lots of memorabilia from that era. There is also a collection of paintings, sculptures and engravings (from the 13th to the 19th century) by foreign artists who were inspired by Athens. Some of these artists had never set foot in Athens but nonetheless wanted to express their mental images of this great city.
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Monument of Lysicrates
Athens
~10.19 miles from Spata city center
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The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens was erected by the choregos Lysicrates, a patron of many theatrical performances in the Theater of Dionysus, to commemorate the award of first prize in 335 BC or 334 BC, 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.
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National Historical Museum (Old Parliament)
Athens
~10.20 miles from Spata city center
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The Old Parliament building (Greek: ?a?a?? ?????, Palaiá Voule) at Stadiou Street in Athens, housed the Greek Parliament between 1875 and 1932. It now houses the country's National Historical Museum (?????? ?st????? ???se??, Ethnikó Istorikó Mouseío).
The site was originally occupied by the house of an Athenian magnate, Kontostavlos. After Athens became the capital of Greece in 1833, King Otto selected it as temporary residence, pending the construction of the Royal Palace (which houses Parliament today). In 1835, a large dance and banquet hall was added to the house, and after the "September 3rd" Uprising, which forced King Otto to grant a constitution, the National Assembly convened here. In October 1854, however, the house burned down in a fire. Construction of a new building then be...
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Metropolis Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Athens
~10.22 miles from Spata city center
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The decision to move the capital of the young Greek state to Athens in 1834 made it imperative to build a large new cathedral here. Construction started in 1839 and was completed in 1863. Since that time, this imposing building, decorated with fine murals and icons, has been Greece's most important church, used for official occasions. People wanting an insight into contemporary Greek culture and wishing to listen to splendid Byzantine music should attend Sunday mass which begins at 8a.
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