35 min
60 min
60 min
17.6 / km²
0 - one reason for the Mixed verdict
0 - one reason for the Mixed verdict
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−23% vs city
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Staying in Kypseli
Kypseli is the hillside north of Pedion tou Areos, built up from the 1930s with some of the first modern apartment blocks in Athens. Its spine is Fokionos Negri, a long pedestrian boulevard of cafés and restaurants, with the restored 1937 municipal market in the middle of it.
It went down and has come back up. The middle classes moved to the northern suburbs in the 1980s, the flats were let cheaply, and the district is now one of the most mixed and most talked-about in the city. For a long stay it is good value: whole flats here are the cheapest in this guide, and the cafés and tavernas are priced for the people who live here.
The problem is the commute. There is no metro in Kypseli until line M4 opens, so it is a trolleybus down Patission or a ten-minute walk to Victoria on M1, and Monastiraki is thirty-five minutes on foot. There is nothing to see in the district itself, and parts of Fokionos Negri are still shabby.
What works
- The cheapest whole flats in this guide
- Fokionos Negri: a pedestrian boulevard of cafés and tavernas
- Pedion tou Areos park at the foot of the district
- Neighbourhood prices, and a real neighbourhood
What does not
- No metro until line M4 opens; Victoria on M1 is a ten-minute walk
- Thirty-five minutes on foot to Monastiraki
- No notable sight anywhere in the district
- Parts of Fokionos Negri are still run down
Via Fokionos Negri, a pedestrian zone with many elegant restaurants, though today somewhat run down.Gentrification and multiculturalism has seen Kypseli become a popular neighbourhood again in more recent years.