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39.1 / km²
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+38% vs city
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Staying in Makrygianni
Makrygianni is small - a handful of streets between the Acropolis Museum and Syngrou - and almost all of it is hotels. That is the reason to book it. The museum is on the corner, the Acropolis south entrance is five minutes up Dionysiou Areopagitou, the west entrance about eight, and Akropoli station on M2 is two stops from Syntagma.
Dionysiou Areopagitou is pedestrianised the whole way round the rock, so the side you look at is car-free. It is also the reason the rooftop terraces here are worth the premium: they face the Parthenon with nothing in between.
What you give up is a neighbourhood. The restaurants on Makrygianni street are priced for the museum queue, the coaches start unloading on the promenade at 09:00, and nothing here is open late - for a drink you walk into Koukaki or over to Plaka.
What works
- Acropolis Museum on the corner, Acropolis south entrance five minutes up
- Akropoli station on M2, two stops from Syntagma
- Dionysiou Areopagitou is pedestrianised the whole way round the rock
- Rooftop terraces here look straight at the Parthenon
What does not
- A few streets, and most of the addresses on them are hotels
- Restaurants price for the museum queue rather than for anyone local
- Coach parties unload on the promenade from 09:00
- Nothing open late; a drink means walking to Koukaki or Plaka