With tons of exciting new projects in the pipeline, including the Athenian Riviera’s ongoing revamp and the mega Ellinikon scheme, touted as ‘Europe’s greatest urban regeneration project’, the city where democracy was invented back in 508 BC is currently having a ‘moment’.
As once-grubby districts such as Piraeus and Psyrri buzz with innovative art galleries, cool new hotels, and gourmet food venues that are putting a spin on Greece’s age-old cuisine, it’s no surprise that this Parthenon-topped town described by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte – co-founder of Beirut’s contemporary design gallery – as ‘the new Berlin’, was crowned the globe’s Leading Cultural City Destination in the 2024 World Travel Awards.
