The Churches the Grid Spared
5 stops · 35 min · 717 m
Five stops, about half an hour, from Aiolou Street down into Plaka: the church that stood in as the new capital's cathedral, the Byzantine church a straight street was meant to demolish, the cathedral said to be built from the marble of seventy-two others, the tiny church next door made of ancient stone, and the last Ottoman-era mansion in Athens, home of the family of the saint the cathedral keeps.
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.
- Agia Irini → Benizelos Mansion
- Benizelos Mansion → Agia Irini
Stops on this walk
- 1Agia Irini (Aiolou Street)
- 2Panagia Kapnikarea (Ermou Street)
- 3Metropolitan Cathedral (Mitropoleos Square)
- 4Little Metropolis
- 5Benizelos Mansion (Adrianou 96)
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.