Omonia Square, Athens is a must visit for you while you are on your Athens Tours. Keep walking down the Athinas Street from the marketplace and you will find yourself at the Omonia Square, Athens and the trip is surely going to be a memorable one. If New York has its 42nd Street, Athens has its Omonia Square, although this one is much quieter.
You will find Omonia Square, Athens surrounded with colorful line-up of fast-food stores and pedestrian streets on the other side of the square. It is often regarded as the main square for Athens business center and therefore, you will find a ceaseless stream of people and vehicles for most of the time in a day. Purists might find this place somewhat lacking in the aesthetic aspect which characterizes the other Tourist Attractions in Athens so well, but nevertheless, Omonia Square in Athens has its own charm to keep you engaged for a whole day.
Surrounded by shops, offices and hotels, Omonia Square, Athens is a major station for metro, trolleys and buses and you can use this place as a base to travel to virtually any part of the city from here. There are some of the most well known hotels here which have been brought up by big hotel brands and these are being renovated. Over the last few years, it has acquired a more cosmopolitan nature and the best evidence of this are the few Indian, Pakistani and Chinese businesses and restaurants here. And, you will find a multitude of foreign newspapers and magazines sold at the kiosks of the square and you can expect to find something in your language too.
Among the eateries and restaurants clubbed here along the square, you will find the huge old cafeneon has been now turned into a Cafe-Neon. You can get just about anything here and you can sit here for hours watching the world pass by. Omonia Square, Athens was quite beautiful in its hey days and you can catch some glimpses of those good old glory days in old photographs if you go downstairs into the metro station.
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