Athens Shopping

Athens Shopping,: Information about shopping in Athens Greece, Attica

Athens is a modern megalopolis, and, as such, has a multitude of shops and shoping areas. Here are some of the most famous and important shopping places.

Plaka
Plaka is the touristiest shopping area, filled with dozens of souvenir shops and some good gold and silver jewellers. The prices there are quite reasonable, as there is quite an important diversity.

Monastiraki and Pandrossou Street
Pandrossou Street gathers as well numerous touristy shops selling souvenirs like paintings or ancient statue’s imitation, as well as some jewellers and many fur and carpets shops. This street is a pedestrian one and leads from the huge Metropolis Cathedral on the Plateia Metropoleos to Monastiraki district.
Monastiraki offers a wide range of cheap shops selling all kind of stuffs such as labelled shoes, hand made leather shoes, clothes, leathers, furniture, jewellery, CDs, traditional instruments and more. Monastiraki is the area where the lovely Sunday morning flea Market offers a huge quantity of diverse items.

Ermou
This is thee most famous pedestrian street leading from Syndagma square to Monastiraki. It is the biggest commercial street in Athens, therefore it attracts hundreds of clients every day. It is naturally always overcrowded, while Fridays and Saturdays are almost unbearable. On the top of the street line up luxurious famous label shops, which are, of course, really expensive. From the half of the street to the end, the shops offers some more affordable labels like Zara, Morgan, Marks&Spencer, etc…The whole street has only clothes, shoes and house furniture shops.

Athinas Street
This street leads from Omonia Square to Monastiraki. It is an area mostly reserved for food shopping, where all the products are fresh and of very good quality. Here you will find the meat and fish Market, as well as the fruit and vegetables Market. Little shops around the two Markets sell excellent nuts, herbs, spices, olives, honey and coffee.

Kolonaki
This is the high class district of central Athens. The shops in this area are some of the most stylish and expensive shops in Athens. Here are to be found clothes and shoes from famous international and Greek designers. The neighbourhood is equally full of art galleries, antique and furniture shops.

Patission Street
This huge and incredibly long street is boarded with clothes, shoes and accessories shops. The prices are usually really affordable and the choice seems unending. It is nevertheless a noisy street and traffic can be a bit tiring.

Kifissia
This Athenian’s chic northern suburb is the other place, besides Kolonaki, who is mostly addressed to wealthy customers, with clothes, shoes and accessories shops of luxury and famous designers’ label. It is of course not as central as the district mentioned before.

Glyfada
Third classy and luxurious shopping area of Athens, Glyfada is in the south of Athens’s centre. It is a seaside neighbourhood crowded with luxurious and expensive shops of all kinds.

Stadiou Street
This is the street, leading from Syndagma square to Omonia Square, boarded famous and luxurious gold jewelleries from Greek designers such as Ilias Lalaounis, Kessaris and Bvlgaris.

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