The Lower Bazaar
4 stops · 25 min · 159 m
Twenty-five minutes round Monastiraki Square, where the market has stood for two thousand years and only the landlord changes: an emperor's library that became the governor's seat and a bazaar of a hundred shops, the governor's mosque and the column that cost him his job, the smiths' street, and the little convent whose nuns' cloth stalls seeded the market and gave the square its name.
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.
- Hadrian's Library → Monastiraki Square
- Monastiraki Square → Hadrian's Library
Stops on this walk
- 1Hadrian's Library
- 2Tzistarakis Mosque
- 3Monastiraki Flea Market
- 4Pantanassa and Monastiraki Square
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.