Is Mets a good area to stay in Athens?

Mets is small - a dozen streets climbing Ardittos hill behind the Panathenaic Stadium, named after a nineteenth-century Bavarian brewery. It is one of the few parts of central Athens where prewar houses survived the 1960s, so the streets have gardens, two-storey villas and bougainvillea instead of concrete balconies.

For a couple or a quiet trip it is close to ideal. The Acropolis museum is fifteen minutes on foot around the base of the hill, Syntagma about twenty, and Pangrati's restaurants are over the road - but the district itself has almost no traffic and goes silent at night, which nowhere else within this radius does.

What you accept is that it is tiny and it is a hill. There is no metro station, barely a shop, and perhaps five places to eat; anything else means walking down into Pangrati or across to Makrygianni, and back up afterwards. The First Cemetery takes up a good part of the district, which bothers some people and is in practice the quietest green space in Athens.