By Marina Rafenberg

Un temple moderne. Un sanctuaire d’acier et de verre qui se cambre face à la mer Egée comme pour défier l’ île d’Egine posée au loin, sur la ligne d’horizon. 

By Enrico dal Buono

Se in città c’è chi mormora che la crisi sia stata progettata a tavolino, per svendere le meraviglie locali ai diavoli del capitalismo, c’è chi non rinuncia a buone tradizioni novecentesche. 

By Eva Biringer

Aufgeräumt und klar beschildert ist Athen im Jahr acht Jahre nach der Krise nicht. Dafür aber locker, unkonventionell, die Stadt wirkt trotz ihrer Unvollkommenheit gut gelaunt und platzt förmlich vor Energie und Aufbruchstimmung. Ein bisschen wie Berlin in den 90er-Jahren. 

by Ella Alexander
...the political upheaval of Athens is what lies behind its rising arts scene. Good art is fuelled by intense emotion, be it love, anger, frustration or pain – or simply by having a point of view – and the Athenians have found a release through creativity, giving rise to tiny one-room galleries, sprawling creative hubs and an inventive food scene.

By Mathieu Belay & Alicia Dorey

Au-delà de son patrimoine incomparable, Athènes est aussi une capitale ancrée dans son temps avec son lot d’adresses chics ou branchées, idéales pour une escale prolongée avant de filer sur les îles ou un city break dédié. 

As told by Eugenia Vereli to Trupti Rami

Athens is the definition of Mediterranean. You can see this in the kitchen, in the seaside, in the nature. It’s a really youthful city. People stay out until late into the night every single day of the week.. We are out all day long. We have many bars, many cafés, many shops. When you wake up, you’ll go out and drink coffee. 

By Omaira Gill

Having emerged from a difficult time in its recent past, Athens has entered a new phase as the epitome of all things cool. Although people say Athens is the new Berlin for its bar scene, or London for its emerging street-art culture, none of them do the city justice, because Athens is distinctly itself and incomparable to anywhere else.

By Christopher Bagley

My recent trip to the city confirmed that most of the hype is legit. But Athenians like to point out that city’s unique brand of dysfunctional dynamism has been there all along, even though outsiders are only now paying attention. For travelers who favor unpredictability over prepackaged gloss, Athens is a kind of round-the-clock discovery zone, a place where extreme contradictions are taken for granted.