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Athens Shopping
19-02-2013 16:48You have done all the sightseeing tour you wanted, visited the ancient ruins, Acropolis and the Parthenon and you had enough museum visits. Now, it is time for leisure and fun, and the most common of them is shopping. Athens, although is famous as a history oriented city, has a comparatively extensive shopping scene down town.
The first shopping district you will meet is the pedestrian street of Ermou Street with shops of garments and shoes but also plenty of cafes and bistrot shops in the alleys around. The Ermou shopping street involves also a great scene of everyday life of the locals apart from shopping itself.
For globally famous fashion designers head to Voukourestiou Street, close to Syntagma Square and then further up the hill to Kolonaki district where most of the brands and art galleries are.
The district of Plaka is the most visited area by tourists in Athens and therefore has a wide range of souvenir shops like small statues, replicas of Parthenon, t-shirts with stamps in Greek, packed traditional Greek products to take back home. Among the souvenir shops stand out some really interesting antique shops with hand made artefacts according to the Greek tradition and jewellery shops selling replicas of the most famous museum exhibits made of gold and precious stones, like the Minoan bee pendants from Crete and Mycenaean-like earrings and bracelets.
Monastiraki is famous for the flea market where you can also find antique shops and many second-hand objects like old books. Wander around the alleys and maybe your hidden treasure is waiting for you.
For those who are interested in taste, Athinas Street is a heaven for food lovers. Apart from the small shops selling herbs, spices and nuts there is also Varvakios Central market of Athens, a great market of meat and fish and local products of Greece like cheese, olives and olive oil. Then turn to Evripidou Street, the spice and Herbs Street of Athens to experience an international kind of market as there are shops with products from foreign countries.
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