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Opened in 2025 with trophies, shirts, match film and a room for the 2024 Conference League win. It also honours the 21 fans lost at Gate 7 in 1981.

Tour the pitch, dressing rooms and press room of AEK’s new stadium, and add the club museums. No tours on Mondays or the days around home matches.

Free museum inside Dekelia air base, with rare warbirds, a Spitfire and Greek Air Force jets. Open Saturdays and Sundays 09:30–16:30; bring your passport.

Retired Hellenic Air Force jets and helicopters fill the forecourt, where you can look into the cockpits. Open daily 09:00–17:00 from November to March and until 19:00 in summer.

Athens’s elegant district, with luxury houses on Voukourestiou Street and Greek designer boutiques in the side streets.

Its galleries include a rich collection of Greek regional dress, embroidery and jewellery.

The lanes around Avissinias Square fill with antiques and vintage dealers, busiest on Sunday mornings.

Stone paths through pine trees to a viewpoint facing the Acropolis, a short walk from the Acropolis Museum.

The highest hill in central Athens, reached by a stepped path from Kolonaki in about 30 minutes, with wide city views at sunset.

Forest trails on Hymettus start by the Byzantine monastery, with marked paths up towards the ridge.

Fir forest and the Bafi mountain refuge on Athens’ highest mountain, a full-day walk away from the city.

Renzo Piano’s National Library and Opera under a vast solar canopy, set in a sloping park with a long canal. Climb to the Lighthouse for the sea view.

Contemporary Greek and international art in the converted Fix brewery on Syngrou Avenue.

A cultural centre for theatre, dance and talks, behind a façade of horizontal marble strips that glows at night.

The Benaki’s large modern annex for changing exhibitions on art, design and architecture.

Dimitris Pikionis’s 1950s stone paths up the Acropolis and Filopappou hills, laid from salvaged marble. A lesson in landscape and material.

The Academy, University and National Library, three neoclassical buildings in a row on Panepistimiou by the Hansen brothers.

Bernard Tschumi’s glass museum over a live excavation, with the Parthenon gallery aligned to the temple itself.

The greatest collection of ancient Greek art: the Mask of Agamemnon, the Antikythera Mechanism and the bronze god from Artemision.

Greek art and daily life from antiquity to the 20th century in a Kolonaki mansion, with a rooftop café.

Ceramics, metalwork, textiles and a reconstructed Cairo reception room in two neoclassical houses near Kerameikos.

The pared-back marble figurines that inspired modernist sculptors, displayed with real clarity.

Icons, mosaics and frescoes in a garden villa on Vasilissis Sofias.