Image of Athens Plaka

The cute narrow streets that you often see in photos of Athens are of the location called Plaka which is under the Acropolis. There are two main streets, Kydathinaion and Adrianou. If you have your back to the square walk down the large pedestrian street of Ermou and take your first left which is Nikis or your second which is Voulis. Walk up Nikis till you come to a small pedestrian street (Kydathinaion) and take a right. If you walk up Voulis it dead-ends at Kydatheneon. Adrianou begins in the Monastiraki flea market but disappears in the Roman Agora before reappearing behind the wall of Hadrian Library and Plaka Square.