Kerameikos has a storied history as an ancient potter’s settlement, and today, this edgy neighbourhood brims with the creative energy that informed its first inhabitants with ceramic studios, artist-run galleries, and improv speakeasies behind grafitti-splashed facades.
The thought-provoking street murals here echo the pulse on the street – this is after all where Pericles and Dimosthenes debated at the Pnyx and where philosophers roamed the streets along the Sacred Way (Iera Odos).
In Kerameikos, reminders of the city’s chequered history abound and seamlessly mingle with contemporary architectural masterpieces.
From NLH, the majestic Acropolis dominates the landscape, inspiring the same awe and reverence it has for millennia.