Center of Hellenic Tradition

Athens


This organisation collects excellent traditional craftwork and stocks its shop with ceramics, sculpture and handicrafts from around the country.

It shares an upstairs space with the old-style coffee house Orea Hellas that makes a nice break from the Monastiraki shopping frenzy.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Athens attractions

1. Mosque of Tzistarakis

0.06 MILES

Built in 1759, this building on the south side of Monastiraki is one of few surviving examples of a tzami (mosque) in Athens. It has not functioned as a…

2. Hadrian’s Library

0.07 MILES

These are the remains of the largest structure erected by Hadrian (2nd century AD). Not just a library, it also held music and lecture rooms. It was laid…

3. Church of Kapnikarea

0.09 MILES

This small 11th-century church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, stands smack in the middle of the Ermou shopping strip. It was saved from the bulldozers and…

4. Museum of Greek Popular Instruments

0.1 MILES

A single avid ethnomusicologist collected almost 1200 folk instruments; the best are on display in three floors of this house-turned-museum. Headphones…

5. Museum of Greek Folk Art

0.11 MILES

This museum has been closed since 2015, when it began its transition to this new site at Adrianou. Once it reopens in 2020, it will display secular and…

6. Tower of the Winds

0.11 MILES

This Pentelic marble tower within the Roman Agora, likely built in the 2nd century BC, is both beautiful and functional. Devised by Andronicus, a…

7. Roman Agora

0.13 MILES

This was the city’s market area under Roman rule, and it occupied a much larger area than the current site borders. You can see a lot from outside the…

8. Bath House of the Winds

0.14 MILES

One of the few remnants of Athens' Ottoman period, this 17th-century hammam (Turkish bath) is also the only intact public bath building in the city –…