Plaka by night

Pláka (Greek: Πλάκα) is the old historical neighbourhood of Athens, Greece just under the Acropolis. with labyrinthine streets, many restaurants and souvenir stores. It is visited by many tourists around the year. Download high resolution version (533x720, 49 KB)Plaka in Athens by night. ... Download high resolution version (533x720, 49 KB)Plaka in Athens by night. ... Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area    - City 38. ... Acropolis of Athens from the south-west with the Propylaea and the Temple of Nike (left centre) and the theatre of Herodes Atticus (below left) Acropolis (Gr. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ...

Museums in Plaka include the new Jewish museum, the Greek Folk Art Museum and the Frissiras Museum. Adrianou Street is the oldest street in Athens still in use, and is now home to many tourist shops.

A reasonable explanation regarding the meaning and origin of the name of the place is that it comes from the word pliaka, meaning old, which was used by the Albanian soldiers in the Ottoman service to describe the place, who settled here later, in the 16th Century. Modern soldiers. ... Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299-1326) Bursa (1326-1365) Edirne (1365-1453) Constantinople (Istanbul) (1453-1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–1922 Mehmed VI...

Other references

• Pláka of Litochoro, Pieria is an extended area of villas, hotels and beach resorts, east of Mount Olympus, northern Greece
• Plaka is a village in Chania Prefecture, Crete.
• Plaka is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group.

Litochoro (Greek, Modern: Λιτόχωρο, Ancient/Katharevousa Λιτόχωρον, older form: Litochoron) is a town and municipality located in the southern part of the prefecture of Pieria, famous for beeing on the roots of Mount Olympus. ... Pieria (Πιερία) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Mytikas Summit, Mt Olympus Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Ólympos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,919 (according to new measurements [1]) meters high (9,570 feet) and one of the highest, in real absolute altitude from base to top, of... Plaka is a village located in the Apokoronas region of the northwest coast of the island of Crete, Greece. ... Plaka is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group. ... Milos (formerly Melos, and before the Athenian genocide at 415 B.C. Malos; see also List of traditional Greek place names, Greek: Μήλος, not related to the Modern Greek word μήλο = milo for apple which has the same spelling except for the trailing sigma) is a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea. ... The Cyclades (Greek Κυκλάδες) are a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefecture of Greece. ...

External links

• 360° Virtual tours of Plaka & Monastiraki
• Photo Gallery of Plaka