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Port Piraeus
Moskhaton
~0.20 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Port of Piraeus, as the largest Greek seaport, is one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea basin and one of the top ten container ports in Europe. The port is also a major employer in the area, with more than 1,500 employees who provide services to more than 24,000 ships every year. Piraeus has been the port of Athens since Archaic times.In 2007 the Port of Piraeus handled 20,121,916 tonnes of cargo and 1,373,138 TEU's making it the busiest cargo port in Greece and the largest container port in the country and the East Mediterranean Sea Basin.
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Karaiskaki Stadium
Athens
~1.09 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Karaiskakis Stadium (Greek: G?ped? Ge?????? ?a?a?s?????, IPA: ['?ipe??ðo? ?e?'o???i?o?s ka??ais'kak?is]) is in the Neo Faliro area of Piraeus, Greece. It is the home ground of Olympiacos F.C. and is named after Georgios Karaiskakis, hero of the Greek War of Independence, who was mortally wounded in this area.It was used during the 1896 Summer Olympics as a velodrome where Frenchman Paul Masson took the three track cycling gold medals.It was renovated during the 1960s and was completely rebuilt in 2004 into a 33,334 capacity all seater stadium ready for the football competition of the 2004 Summer Olympics.The last renovation took a record time of only 14 months, finishing just in time for the Olympic Games. At this "renovation" the stadium was totally demolished and built again fr...
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Peace and Friendship Stadium
Athens
~1.49 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Peace and Friendship Stadium, known as S.E.F. after its Greek name (Stadio Erinis Kai Filias - in Greek: St?d?? ??????? ?a? F???a?) is a multi-use indoor sports arena that is located in Faliro, Piraeus, Athens, Greece. It is the central venue of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex and is mostly known for being the home court of the famous Euroleague basketball club Olympiacos Piraeus. In addition to basketball, its multi-purpose main arena is also able to host athletics, gymnastics, volleyball, handball, ice skating, concerts, conventions and exhibitions.
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Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex
Athens
~2.16 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex is a complex in the coastal zone of Athens, Greece. It consists of two indoor arenas and a beach volleyball stadium, and it hosted Handball, Taekwondo, and volleyball events at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The complex is located in Faliro, not far from the port of Piraeus.
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Museum Ship Averof
Athens
~2.46 miles from Piraeus city center
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Museum Ship Averof is a unique destination and worth a visit. Permanently moored at the marina museum is an interesting sight: the awe-inspiring battle ship Averof that took part in the Balkan Wars in 1912-1913 fighting for the liberation of Greece. The interior of this legendary ship has been transformed into a museum with memorabilia from conflicts of the early 20th century. The warship stands as a testimony of the savage war that altered the history and geography of Europe. Check website for more details.
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Athens Planetarium
Athens
~3.01 miles from Piraeus city center
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Foundation of the Hellenic World (Hellenic Cosmos)
Athens
~3.03 miles from Piraeus city center
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National Observatory of Athens
Athens
~4.63 miles from Piraeus city center
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The National Observatory of Athens is a research institute situated in Athens, Greece.Founded in 1842, it was the first scientific research institute built after Greece became independent in 1829.It was also the first scientific research institute in Balcans. It was financed in large part by the benefactor and diplomat Baron George Sinas. Astronomical observations began in September 1847, under the direction of George Vouris, its first director.In 1890 the Observatory was reorganized as a governmental research center with the name National Observatory of Athens, and was expanded with the addition to the Astronomical Department of two new, the Meteorological and the Seismological. In 1942 the Departments were redenominated as Institutes, and in 1955 the Ionosphere Institute, was added...
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Pnyx
Athens
~4.70 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Pnyx (Greek: ????, pronounced "Pnüks" in Ancient Greek, ????a "Pnika" in Modern Greek) is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece. It is located less than one kilometre west of the Acropolis and 1.6 km south-west of the centre of modern Athens, Syntagma Square.This section's tone or style may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. Specific concerns may be found on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. (November 2008)Compared to the better-known surviving monuments of ancient Athens, such as the Parthenon, the Pnyx is relatively unspectacular. It is a small, rocky hill surrounded by parkland, with a large flat platform of eroded stone set into its side, surrounded by steps carved on its slope. It is nevertheless one of the most signifi...
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Kerameikos Cemetery
Athens
~4.73 miles from Piraeus city center
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Kerameikos (Greek: ?e?aµe????) is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon (??p????) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city.
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Ancient Agora
Athens
~4.81 miles from Piraeus city center
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Parthenon (Parthenonas)
Athens
~4.83 miles from Piraeus city center
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Traveler Description: The majestic ruins of an ancient Greek building, known for its dignified white marble columns and perfect sense of proportion.Attraction type: Historic site, Landmark/point of interest, Architectural building, Ancient ruinsAddress: Acropolis Top of Dionyssiou Areopagitou Athens 10558 GreeceTel: 01-321-4172
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Odeon of Herod Atticus (Odeion Irodion)
Athens
~4.88 miles from Piraeus city center
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Traveler Description: Second-century theater built into the hillside.Attraction type: Historic site, TheaterAddress: Odos Dionissiou Areopayitou Athens GreeceTel: 01-323-2771
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Temple of Hephaestos (Hephaisteion or Thesion)
Athens
~4.90 miles from Piraeus city center
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Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Athens
~4.97 miles from Piraeus city center
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Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum is a museum in Athens, Greece, created by the renowned Greek jewelery 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 jewelery making. The permanent exhibition displays 3000 pieces designed in the period 1940-1992.
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New Acropolis Museum
Athens
~5.00 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies on the archaeological site of Makrygianni and the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.The museum was founded in 2003 while the Organisation of the Museum was established in 2008. It opened to the public on June 21, 2009. Nearly 4,000 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square metres.The Organisation for the Construction of the new museum is chaired by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Professor Emeritus of Archaeology, Dimitrios Pandermalis.The first architectural competition to desi...
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Theatre of Dionysos (Theatro Dionyssou)
Athens
~5.01 miles from Piraeus city center
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Attraction type: Ancient ruinsAddress: Dionysiou Areopagitou Street Athens 105 58 GreeceTel: 30-210-32.24.625Fax: 30-210-92.39.023
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Acropolis
Athens
~5.01 miles from Piraeus city center
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Psiri
Athens
~5.01 miles from Piraeus city center
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Psiri (?????, often misspelled as Psirri) is a gentrified neighbourhood in Athens, Greece, today known for its restaurants, bars, live music tavernas, and small number of cozy hotels.Until the early 1990s, Psiri was still considered a dangerous area to visit by some, but it has now become one of the most fashionable choices in the city for accommodation and entertainment.The plateia of Psiri is also called "plateia of Heroes" (p?ate?a ?????) after the names of the streets leading to it. In the era of the 'old Athens' (namely, during the last quarter of the 19th century), the nickname "plateia of Heroes" was a derisive reference to koutsavakides (???tsaß???de?), who at the time used it as their resort.
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Kanellopoulos Museum
Athens
~5.03 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Kanellopoulos, in a former private home with a wonderful position high on the slopes of the Acropolis, is another nice place to visit when you've had your fill of big museums. This private collection highlights superb red and black figure vases, stunning Byzantine and post-Byzantine icons, and even a few Mycenaean pottery baby bottles. The house itself, with some fine painted ceilings, is a delight.
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Stoa of Attalos
Athens
~5.03 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Stoa of Attalos (also spelled Attalus) is recognised as one of the most impressive stoæ in the Athenian Agora. It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon who ruled between 159 BC and 138 BC.Typical of the Hellenistic age, the stoa was more elaborate and larger than the earlier buildings of ancient Athens. The stoa's dimensions are 115 by 20 metres wide and it is made of Pentelic marble and limestone. The building skillfully makes use of different architectural orders. The Doric order was used for the exterior colonnade on the ground floor with Ionic for the interior colonnade. This combination had been used in stoas since the Classical period and was by Hellenistic times quite common. On the first floor of the building, the exterior colonnade was Ionic and the interi...
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Monastery of Daphni
Athens
~5.08 miles from Piraeus city center
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Dafni or Daphni (Greek ?af?? before the spelling change, Dafnion ??f???? or Daphnion) is a monastery 11 km north-west of downtown Athens in Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue (GR-8A). It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis. The forest covers about 15 to 20 km².The Daphnion was founded about the turn of the 6th century, Christianizing the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo Daphnaios that had been desecrated by the Goths in 395, and reusing the Ionic columns of the ancient temple of Apollo in its portico; only one remains, the others having been removed to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.The principal church (catholikon), a fine monument of the 11th-century Byzantine art, is a cross-in-square church of the octagonal type surmounted by...
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Tower of the Winds (Turm der Winde)
Athens
~5.12 miles from Piraeus city center
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A Macedonian astronomer, Andronikos of Kyrrhos (or Cyrrhestes), supervised the construction of the Horologion according to Vitruvius, known today as the Tower of the Winds, in the Athens marketplace in the first half of the first century BC. This octagonal structure showed scholars and shoppers both sundials and mechanical hour indicators. The tower with its Doric interior and its Corinthian exterior featured a 24 hour mechanized clepsydra and indicators for the eight winds from which the tower got its name, and it displayed the seasons of the year and astrological dates and periods. The clepsydra inside was driven by water from the acropolis. On the top there was a figure showing the direction of the wind.In the period 1837 – 1845 the tower was excavated by the Greek Archaeological So...
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Roman Agora Forum
Athens
~5.12 miles from Piraeus city center
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The Roman Forum of Athens is located to the north of the acropolis and to the east of the original classical Greek agora.
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Old Acropolis Museum
Athens
~5.13 miles from Piraeus city center
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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. In June 2007 the old museum closed its doors so that its antiquities could be moved to their new home, which opened on 20th June 2009.
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Museum of Greek Popular Musical Instruments
Athens
~5.13 miles from Piraeus city center
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There are museums and then there are museums. The one dedicated to Greek Popular Music in Athens’ Plaka district is a good time museum. You feel happy the minute you walk in, and you will dance and sing your way through. You will want to make movies like Anthony Quinn and Melina Mercouri.Greece and music. What a great combination. Music is everywhere here. You can’t walk the streets without it. A beggar makes a day’s nut playing a tape recorder for spare change. Subways, houses, tavernas, offices, stores, everywhere: joyful and unexpected. The tension that builds in the bouzouki music, the striving, demanding rhythms under it, the pastoral, peaceful music of the pipes, the rushing energy of the mountainous violins are all part and parcel of daily life. Often museums stand away f...
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City Centre Athens
Athens
~5.16 miles from Piraeus city center
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Monument of Lysicrates
Athens
~5.18 miles from Piraeus 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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Plaka
Athens
~5.24 miles from Piraeus city center
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Pláka (Greek: ????a) is the picturesque old historical neighbourhood 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. During the early modern age (XVth century[1]) and until the early 20th century Plaka was inhabited by an Arvanite community[2][3][4][5][6] Apparently the name stems from Arvanitika "Pliak Athena", meaning "Old Athens".[7] Plaka is the Athens that became capital of Greece in 1834.[8] It is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists around the year, and is under strict zoning and conservation regulations, being the only neighborhood in Athens where all utilities (water, power, cable television, telep...
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Greek Evangelical Church (Elliniki Evangeliki Ekklisia)
Athens
~5.25 miles from Piraeus 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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