Located in an attractive house lived in by Ang. Hatzimihali (1895-1965), a woman devoted to popular arts and traditions, the small Athens City Centre for Popular Arts and Traditions has collections of weaving and embroidery (coloured lace and embroidery), regional costumes, musical instruments, agricultural tools of past times, etc. A typical dwelling hut of the Sarakatsan nomads is reconstructed on the upper floor.

This is the avenue «of the University». At the start, on either side, jostle luxury hotels, grand terraced cafés, restaurants, confectioners and classy shops. The Schliemann house, an attractive residence known as the «palace of Troy» (Iliou Melanthron) which the brilliant German archaeologist had built in 1879 by the architect Ernst Ziller (1837-1923) in the style of the Venetian Renaissance palaces, is home to the Numismatic Museum.

This is the old Turkish district where you will feel the atmosphere of the capital under the Ottoman domination as though you were there! Here were the bazaar, the main mosques and the administrative buildings. It is now a popular commercial district, which hides Athens' «flea market». Don't miss it!

In this museum you can listen to the sounds of 600 traditional Greek musical instruments (from the 18C to our own time), classified into 4 families: wind instruments (floyères, sourávlia, mandoúres, tsaboúnes, gáides, zournádes); percussion instruments (toumbelékia, daoúlia, défia); string instruments (tambourádes, laghoúta, oútia, guitars, mandolináta, sandoúri, kanonáki, lyres); and idiophones (koudoúnia, zilia, koutália, trígono, sémandro). Have a good musical time.