Ancient Agora
24 Adrianou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 105 55, Greece
This is where democracy was invented — not in some grand palace, but in an open-air marketplace where anyone could shout at a politician.
Exarchia
10 Ashley Road, Haringey, London, N17, United Kingdom
Welcome to Athens' most misunderstood neighborhood — a former bourgeois quarter turned anarchist stronghold where the walls are covered in political murals, the bookshops outnumber the chain stores, and the residents have a complicated relationship with the concept of authority.
Syntagma Square
Plateia Syntagmatos, Athens 105 63
Every hour, on the hour, two soldiers in pom-pom shoes perform one of the most meticulously choreographed ceremonies in the world.
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