The Benefactors' Avenue
4 stops · 30 min · 419 m
Four buildings, half an hour: the parliament the young state built for itself and ran out of money for, and three marble temples of learning on the next avenue that private donors paid for instead — one of which stood for forty years with nothing inside it.
Walk it either way
There is a station at each end, so this walk works in both directions — the guide reorders the route and retells the stops to match the way you are going.
- Old Parliament → National Library
- National Library → Old Parliament
Stops on this walk
- 1Old Parliament House (Kolokotronis statue)
- 2Academy of Athens
- 3University (Propylaea)
- 4Vallianeio (National Library)
How this walk works
Wanderful is an audio guide that knows where you are. Start this walk and it speaks as you reach each stop — no reading a map, no hunting for the next number on a sign. Put your phone in your pocket and listen.