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If there is one thing that makes Attica stand out in the summer it is its hidden beaches that you can enjoy cool dives and relaxing moments. Some of them may be difficult to spot, but the sure thing is that they will excite you and become... Your hangout. One of these beaches is located in Sounio and is called Pasalimani. It's really a little diamond worth exploring. Pasalimani beach with clear waters Pasalimani beach is what we call the hidden beach of Attica. It is difficult to locate this ...

Attica is full of diamond beaches that if you discover them, you will hardly get away. One of them is a breath away from the center of Athens. She's small, hidden and unknown to a lot of people. The reason for the mikri Chamolia. The beach can be easily described as the most beautiful hidden beach of Attica. It's a real paradise and you can't imagine being so close to you! It is a small bay with crystal clear turquoise waters that are difficult to find in Attica or other ...

Norway may be famous for its fjords, but Greece has its own special anaglyph. And in Attica you can find fjords which are extremely impressive. Within a short time of the center of Athens, in just 20 minutes, there is a place where the formations of the coast create this unique feeling. The famous fjords of Attica... The fjord of Attica "Aixoni" The tip of Aixoni is named after the ancient city of Aixoni, which is today's Glyfada. At the end of the 6th century BC, Klisthenis first formed and ...

Almost half of the population of the country lives in Athens divided into its dozens of regions and districts. Some of them, in fact, are unknown to many and are located in very central parts of the city. And you may have been to Vironas (from lord Byron's name) many times, but do you know what Nea Elvetia (meaning New Switzerland) is? Probably not... Here are, then, five districts of Athens that few know exist... Anakasa Anakasa is a district located west of New Philadelphia and further north of Agioi ...

Athens and Attica in general is full of history. In every one of its corners something more or less known has taken place. It is of no coincidence that many neighborhoods have been named after something characteristic that happened there, or by the name of a man or even by an attraction located in the area. This is also the case with a very well-known area in Attica which took its name from the monastery located there. We are speaking about the Kaisariani district. The monastery in Kaisariani distrtict and ...

Attica hides many secrets and locations that many may not know. Places and attractions you may have been so close but not aware of. Among them is a cave that because it is not visited, many ignore it. It is located in the north of Vari and is called Nympholiptos Cave. The unknown cave is an hour away from Athens The Cave of Nympholiptos, also known as Panos Cave and Cave of Archedimou, is a cave on the southern slopes of Ymittos in Attica,in the north of Vari. is located ...

The long beaches in Attica are pretty much known to everyone. During the summer months they are filled with people and offer breaths of coolness to those who have not left the capital. But there are also some lesser-known ones that are small diamonds. One of them is located in the near by from Athens Lavrioand has an unusual name. It's called Chiu. Tsiu: A small paradise 45 minutes from Athens The small beach with the strange name Tsiu has really amazing, crystal clear waters and a relatively narrow strip ...

Penteli is one of the places in Attica that we can say that for many she hides various secrets and strange phenomena. Starting from the cave of Davelis to the inits that has been said many times that come out in various parts of Athens, Penteli is the place for those who love mysteries. Many mysteries around Penteli,and one of them has to do with a certain part of the road. The reference to Penteli that is like... downhill The reason for a strange climb, as they call it, in ...

Athens has different and more mysterious charm at night. A unique glow that starts from the Acropolis and spreads throughout the city. On the days when we stay home, many of us are nostalgic for the night walks in the capital of Greece. And not without a cause. A walk from the center to the southern or the northern suburbs, can make you feel calm even if you don't get out of the car. It will make you take another look at this bustling city. Understand why Palamas used to ...

Old Athenscertainly has many differences from the image that the capital of Greece has nowadays. And some places may have remained the same more or less (for example some neoclassical buildings) but there are also places that have become literally unrecognizable. Like, the city's main boulevards, for example. Can you think of Alexandras Avenue as a dirt road and chickens passing by it? And yet it looked like that before it was paved and changed name. Alexandras Avenue and its history Alexandras Avenue is a central artery that connects a ...

Walking through the center of Athensyou can pass trhrough streets, monuments and historical corners of this city without paying much attention. So you may have passed by a small chapel that stands there, in Athens, over a century, many times and its construction story is very interesting. Its construction story is in fact, quite an interesting one. We are talking about Agia Kyriaki. The little chapel and its history It is located in one of the most central places of Athens, at 28 Athinas Street. The truth is that few ...

A characteristic of Athens as well as many other European cities is its large public squares that have many years of history. Public Squares that have witnessed various historical events and have become places of tears and revolutions. They have hosted mass gatherings and their names have been linked to great persons of its history. Athens has town-squares that are the center of the city-life that evolves around them until today. Let us go and see where some of the most famous acquired their names. Clafthmonos Square Or else, the ...

One cannot question the beauty of Athens. It may have changed a lot and and passed through various stages, over the centuries Athens, however retains its charm and its little secrets. There are definitely a lot of things you don't know about Athens. We present to you ten from them... Part of Alexandras Avenue is subject to the provincial road network. Not only is this central road of Athens that is under such a condition. There is an old decree, concerning roads that start from the center and are directed ...

Ornamental buildings that have graced Athens for years. Architectural diamonds from great artists who invested their art in Athensas if it were a painter's canvas. These are buildings that were located in Athens but did not come to a nice ending because their demolition was decided for various reasons. One of them was the Philellinon Mansion on the homonymous street. The jewel-building and its history It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful neoclassical buildings in the city. The Phillelinon Mansion was built in 1886. It is a design of ...

There are so many hidden secrets next to us and we don't know them. Every time we explore Attica and Greece we discover them with joy and we find out how beautiful a country we live in and how much diversity it has. Many of these hidden secrets are found in Attica. One of them is Merenda. What is Mount Merenda and where it name came from. Merenda is an unknown and small mountain in Attica which is located in the southern part of the prefecture, between the settlements markopoulo ...

The perception we have of Old Athens usually comes from black and white photographs of the early 20th century. They show us the transition of the capital of Greece from a provincial city to a European one, imitating the standards of other countries. In this, of course, the first urban city plan helped , which was prepared by Kleanthis-Schaubert, but also the great architectural interventions made through their work by architects such as Ernestos Chiller. also helped a lot. How Athens looked before the revolution That which is not clear ...

Those who love the center of Athens, have a few neighborhoods in their hearts and distinguish them from all others. For many, one of them is Pangrati certainly. It's what we call the remote-center. The ideal destination if you want to break out of the hustle and bustle of the center but you don't want to make a long trip, to Agia Paraskevi for example. From morning to night the rhythms remain at a high pace and every hour of the day you have a good reason to go for ...

Today it is one of the most famous districts in Attica and is a hangout for many from the southern suburbs. The history of this region, however, is not recent as it seems that always been a favorite destination of the Athenians. The reason for Glyfada or aixoni as it was once called. Who was aixoni and where did she get her name? The old municipality of Aixoni was located in the southeast of the main city of ancient Athens. It was essentially located among the municipalities of Alimountos and ...