Plaka

Πλάκα (Αδριανού – Κυδαθηναίων)

Bougainvillea stairways by day, taverna lights by night

Hours

Streets always open; shops roughly 10am–11pm

Tickets

Free

Address

Around the junction of Adrianou and Kydathineon streets

Nineteenth-century neoclassical houses painted in faded pastels, stepped lanes with bougainvillea spilling over the walls. The main drags, Adrianou and Kydathineon, are all souvenir shops and waiters waving menus, but climb one block uphill and you're in quiet alleys where cats sleep on doorsteps. In the evening, taverna tables spread down the steps and the floodlit walls of the Acropolis hang right above your head. Stay nearby and you'll end up walking through it morning and night.