Greece Travel Guide. Greek Island Guide. Hotels of Greece. If you walk a straight line down Athinas from Omonia it will take you right up to the Acropolis and on the way you would pass some of the most interesting places in Athens. Athinas street for me is the heart and soul of modern Athens and I can sit here in front of my computer in North Carolina and give a guided tour as easily as I could give a tour of my own house.
I spend several weeks a year staying on Athinas Street, usually at the Hotel Attalos and if I could find an affordable apartment in the neighborhood I would buy it because nothing makes me feel more alive than to walk out the front door of the hotel and be engulfed in the sites, sounds and people of the most diverse street in Athens. If you see the center of Athens as the Acropolis, then the beginning of Athinas street is at Monastiraki Square where the tables of Mparaktaris old taverna envelope the small church for which the area is named.
Ermou Street, the primary clothes shopping street in Athens, comes down from Syntagma Square and passes Athinas street on its way to Keramikos and the Gazi , Athens newest center of nighttime activity. But for me Psiri is still the place to be. The southeast corner of the Psiri neighborhood is the corner of Athinas Street and Ermou right where the entrance to the new metro station and the neo-classic restored building on the corner, and the Hotel A is for Athens with its cafe and spectacular view of the square and the Acropolis.
As you walk up Athinas Street with the Acropolis behind you there are hardware stores and clothing shops on both sides of the road. One of the first clothing shops on the right side is one that will be of interest to any man who can't seem to find clothes that fit him in Athens. Its called Davos and it specializes in clothes for big guys like me.
After hours of frustration on Ermou street where it seems like the men's clothes are meant for elves and hobbits it is a great feeling to walk in and find shirts, sweaters, pants and jackets that are too big for me.
