Your ultimate guide to Greece

The best things to do selected by the Athens Voice team

This is Greece

Moutza

An open palm gesture that does NOT signify love

Open-air market (Laiki)

Where to buy fresh produce

Malaka

The most common offensive verbal abuse in Greek

Mykonos: A tale of two villages

Mykonos, Greece, Crisis, Art, what do they all mean. You find yourself amidst an artistic platform. 

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Things to do

5 quick stops for street food

Have a break and satiate your appetite

5 places to meet metalheads

Headbanging in Athens

5 Greek DJs you can't afford to miss

Live your groove in Greece

Local food secrets

Eating like a native Athenian

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Sightseeing

Landmark Building
Panathenaic Stadium

Also known as Kallimarmaron

Museum
Benaki Museum

Its permanent collection with more than 40,000 items offers a timeline of Greek history

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Best of Athens

A safe bet for a nice seaside stroll

Take the tram from Syntagma sq. to Flisvos Marina.

The place to gulp down ginger ale

Perhaps the best ginger ale in Athens, made of lemon juice, natural lemon oil, ginger in crumbs,

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Hotels

Hostels
Dioskouros

Caters to a youthful, no-budget, adventurous clientele

5 Stars
Ledra Hotel

Very popular among native Greeks and businesspeople alike

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Taste

Asian
Namaste

Authentic, healthy and tasty indian cuisine.

View
La Suite Lounge

Total luxury with influences from the 70s

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Night Out

Bar
Faust

An impressive décor inspired by the interwar period.

Bar
Santa Botella

A terrace ideal for cocktail lovers

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Shopping

Homeware
Heliopoulos Bathroom

Long experience in bathroom designing  from one of the biggest and oldest companies in the field

Homeware
Papapolitis

Successful through the years in the market of kitchen, bath and floors

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