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Athens street food: A taste of Greece's culinary revolution

Athens (CNN) — When morning coffee is served as thick, dark and potentially brain-exploding as this, we can only be in Athens. We're being served this potent, unfiltered concoction, brewed together with sugar in a traditional brass pot over a gas flame, as fortification for a food tour of the Greek…

A new age for Athens at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center

Nearly eleven years in the making, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is finally complete, hailed as one of the city’s most important and modern landmarks The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) is modern architectural elegance at its best. A glass-fronted multi-angular building is built on the edge…

This E-Bike Tour of Athens Keeps Teens Happy

An e-bike tour through Athens helps keep teens engaged and makes for an effortless way to explore more of the city in less time By: Dana Rebmann raveling with teenagers is an art. They have opinions — often strong ones — that can make or break a vacation. Fly them…

Exarchia is one of the coolest neighbourhoods on the planet

“Alternative culture is alive, especially around the square” Cool, hip, hipster...Anyway you put it, two travel bloggers (Adam Goffman and Emily Ray) accepted the challenge set by the Travel Super Market to make a list of all those neighbourhoods in Europe where culture meets urban aesthetics and alternative shops meet…

Benaki Museum

A must visit after a brief stroll around Kolonaki upmarket district. It is located right opposite the lush greenery of the National Gardens and the garden of the Presidential Mansion. Its impressive neoclassical building continues to resist the aesthetic deterioration of postwar Athens. Its permanent collection with more than 40,000 items offers a timeline of Greek…