Newsletter October 2022

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The city's restless creative crowds in full bloom. Heaps of tickets booked for cutting-edge exhibitions, legacy-honouring tributes, enchanting orchestral concerts and intimate music gigs. T-shirt middays that give way to light jacket evenings as coffee cups give way to meze plates. Strolls on vibrant, boisterous streets, treks up to historical mountain tops and late season dips into balmy seas. Many different worlds come together in Athens during October, and all who visit get to have the best out of all of them. Will you come join?

Dark, loud, graffitied, rebellious. Artistic, solidary, relaxed, original. Protogenous Street in Psirri is synonymous to Athenian vibrancy and is one of the city’s freshest turfs.
Walk the walk

Trade the urban trail for a peaceful paradise. A trek up Mount Penteli offers breathtaking views, wild herb foraging and a history lesson on the marble quarries from where modern Athens arose.
Take a hike

Stay in Athens invites you to book your November weekend getaway and save on airline tickets with Aegean Airlines and on accommodation at the city's best hotels.
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• Rise like a Greek and take part in the celebrations of Greece's Ohi Day on October 28 ;
• Practice taking all things in good measure by indulging in round after round of modern Greek meze plates;
• Turn the city inside out and delve into Athens' stoas (arcades) in search of secret cafés and historic little shops.

Meet Market | 15 & 16 October
The city's biggest nomadic flea market lands at the cultural hub of Technopolis. Get your hands on all sorts of local handmade goods, with a free entrance.
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Mikis Theodorakis Tribute | Until 22 October
The undisputed legacy and humanism of the renowned Greek composer are being celebrated in a five-part tribute at the Greek National Opera.
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The Eurovision Ball | 22 October
What do you get when the Eurovision Song Contest meets Athens' rising ballroom scene? Join the city’s LGBTQ+ crowd as they leave their mark on the runways.
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Romain Gavras: Gener8ion | Until 23 October
Romain Gavras' latest vision could not have been realised anywhere else in the world but Athens. Experience an audio-visual journey to a dystopian future which eerily resembles the present, through the eyes of the enfant terrible of French cinema.
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Asia Minor Hellenism Exhibition | Until 12 February 2023
One hundred years after the 1922 destruction of Smyrna, the Benaki Museum hosts an extensive and powerful exhibition on the lost side of Hellenism.
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