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Kolonaki
If you're looking for the best from Greece's top fashion designers, this is the place for you. Aesthet is the only store where you can find a collection of many different Greek luxury brands like Lalaounis, Zeus+Dione, Ancient Greek Sandals, Ioanna Kourbella, Ancient Kallos, Yiorgos Eleftheriades, and many more. From clothing to accessories like footwear, hangbags, and swimwear, the store constantly updates its collection and does seasonal clearances, too.
Valaoritou 15, Athens, Attica, 10671, Greece
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Monastiraki
A concept store with cult status since it opened in the 1970s, this is where you'll find everything from the perfect rockstar outfit to S&M-style punk accessories and hand-painted T-shirts with bold messages. Created by fashion designer Dimitris Tsaounatos and now run by his son, the rebelliously-natured shop has everything from original, hand-made, as well as vintage clothes and accessories. Hollywood A-listers and music legends come here from around the world to get decked out in outfits that they know they won't find anywhere else.
Eschilou 28, Athens, Attica, 10554, Greece
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Syntagma
At Attica you'll find everything and anything you need from top designer brands (mainly foreign but also some Greek). From cosmetics to clothes and accessories, you can pop by for a look or hours of shopping therapy.
Panepistimiou 9, Athens, Attica, 10671, Greece
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Kolonaki | Souvenirs
The airy museum shop has excellent copies of Greek icons, jewelry, and folk art—at fair prices. You will also find embroideries, ceramics, stationery, art books, small reliefs, and sculpture pieces. The new Benaki Museum Annex on Pireos Street has its own shop with an interesting collection of modern Greek jewelry. The gift shop is also open on Monday (even though the museum is closed).
Benaki Museum, Koumbari 1, at Vasilissis Sofias, Athens, Attica, 10674, Greece
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Syntagma
A large variety of handwoven articles, genuine folk art, ceramics from all over Greece, and traditional and modern jewelry all on show here make excellent, and affordable, gifts. The cozy and tasteful shop is run by third-generation weavers and is the oldest folk-art shop in Athens (established 1925).
Voulis 7 and Kolokotroni 3, Athens, Attica, 10562, Greece
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Greece’s only contemporary jewelry museum and shop features creations by more than 50 Greek and foreign designers. Original, handmade jewelry and home decor items as well as perfumes and cosmetics by hand-picked quality brands can be admired at a distance or bought. The gallery also presents themed seasonal exhibitions and video installations.
Lebessi 5–7, 11742, Greece
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Makriyianni | Food/Candy
Whether you'd like to buy a few Greek delights to taste during your stay in Greece or a selection of handpicked, organic herbal tea, extra virgin olive oil, essential oils made with endemic wild flowers, or cheese to take home with you for a taste of Greece, this deli store (just behind the Acropolis Museum) has it all. The owner travels far and wide around the country to find the best, most authentic products made by small producers.
Chatzichristou 8, Athens, Attica, 11472, Greece
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Kolonaki
Original gold masterpieces can be had at these shops, where Athenian masters, prompted by jewelry designer Lina Fanouraki, use gold almost like a fabric—creasing, scoring, and fluting it. There's another branch at Panagitsas 6 (210/623–2334) in the Kifissia neighborhood.
Patriarchou Ioakeim 23, Athens, Attica, 10675, Greece
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Plaka
This inspirational "cultural goods" shop has gained a loyal following for its unique souvenirs. Here, you can buy gifts with a contemporary Greek design twist and a sense of humor, created by local designers Greece is for Lovers, Beetroot, Zeus + Dione, Studiolav, AC Design, and more. From a leather skateboard made in sandal style to unique bags that look like they're made from fishmongers' paper to plexiglass evil-eye charms, this is contemporary Greek design at its best.
Adrianou 100, Athens, Attica, 10558, Greece
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Thissio | Spas
For an ancient-modern steam bath experience head to Hammam Baths, a gorgeous neoclassical house that has been converted into a full-amenities day spa with Eastern decorative undertones and excellent service.
Ayion Asomaton 17, Athens, Attica, 105 53, Greece
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Kolonaki | Souvenirs
From real amber, or pinhead-size "evil eyes," to 2-inch-diameter wood, sugarcane, or shell beads, you'll find a dizzying selection of beads and styles here to string your own komboloi (worry beads). You'll admire the variety of this unique Greek version of a rosary, which can be made from traditional amber, but also from coral root, camel bone, semiprecious stones, and many more materials.
Amerikis 9, Athens, Attica, 10672, Greece
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Syntagma
This world-famous Greek jewelry house experiments with its designs, taking ideas from nature, biology, African art, and ancient Greek pieces—the last are sometimes so close to the original that they're mistaken for museum artifacts. The pieces are mainly in gold, some in silver—look out for the decorative objects inspired by ancient Greek housewares.
Panepistimiou 6, Athens, Attica, 10564, Greece
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Kolonaki
Antiques collectors should head here to look for items such as exquisite dowry chests, old swords, precious fabrics, and Venetian glass. You will certainly discover something you like in the four floors of this renovated antiques shop that has been an Athens landmark for the past 100 years. There's another branch in Monastiraki, at Pandrossou 50.
Pindarou 24, Athens, Attica, 10673, Greece
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Multi-talented Pantelis follows in the steps of his father, Stavros, aka "the poet sandalmaker," a legendary cultural figure in his own right, gentle soul, and internationally acclaimed shoemaker. His father's shop, where he worked throughout his life, was once visited by the Beatles, Elizabeth Taylor, Maria Callas, and Jackie O—and numerous TV crews thereafter. Pantelis is also a poet, composer, sculptor, and painter, and although he continues to create his father's classic sandal and bag designs he now also makes magnificently artistic sandals of his own. Visitors continue to arrive from around the world for their custom-made footwear, often with cameras in hand and happy to listen to Pantelis play the piano as they wait, admiring his artworks.
Tzireon 16, 11742, Greece
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Plaka
A cornucopia of fantastically embroidered cushion covers, blankets, and tapestries as well as beautiful carpets, and rugs (including vintage, stone-washed rugs). This is the kind of shop where you can browse at your leisure. The store can ship your merchandise home to you as well.
Adrianou 94, Athens, Attica, 10556, Greece
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Plaka | Spas
Sumptuous massages are offered here with Greek olive oil and raki or with Eastern ingredients. And the option of overlooking the Acropolis during your treatment, which can be carried out by two skilled therapists, is all part of the Al Hammam experience. And that's after relaxing in an Ottoman-style, circular marble steam room. It's a relaxing ritual that's ideal after a day of shopping and sightseeing. The Hammam also offers mani-pedis and beauty treatments.
Tripodon 10, at Ragava, Athens, Attica, 10558, Greece
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Monastiraki
This palaiopolio (junk dealer) is especially popular among collectors of old radio sets and vintage toys, and carries wonderfully quirky items such as mechanized piggy banks.
Abyssinias Sq. 3, Athens, Attica, 10555, Greece
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Plaka | Crafts
Wood furniture and ceramics, all hand-carved and hand-painted by the shop's owners—a creative couple specializing in antique furniture restoration and interior design—beautifully feature motifs from regional Greek designs. Needlework, hanging ceiling lamps, shadow puppets, and other decorative accessories like cushions, fabrics, wooden carved chests, and traditional low tables called sofras, are also for sale.
Kodrou 3, Athens, Attica, 10558, Greece
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Syntagma | Clothing
You'll first hear the music coming from down the stairs, where the store is quirkily located. The originality and surprise of its location is expanded upon entering and observing the designer items, including clothes and accessories for men, women, and children created by Greek and foreign new fashion visionaries. Simple home decor items, cosmetics, hair accessories, and jewelry are also sold here, always obeying the store's minimal, modern, and "funky" styleguide. And there's coffee "with a twist," too.
Nikis 24, Athens, Attica, 10557, Greece
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Makriyianni
For five generations, the Sagiannos family's creations have adorned the fingers, necks, and ears of stylish Athenian matrons. The tradition continues in this shop/gallery, but with more-modern, one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by ordinary objects like bar codes and buttons.
Makriyianni 3, Athens, Attica, 18742, Greece
