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Color, contrast, diversity and at the same time a slowly disappearing genuine ‘Greekness’ best describe the northern Athens suburb of Nea Ionia some 7.5km from the city center.
How to Spend a Day in Athens’ Nea Ionia Neighborhood:
Walk and wander around the neighborhoods
Eat peinirli – boat-shaped filled dough delicacy
Have a picnic at the Nea Philadelphia park (Alsos Neas Philadelphias) with its windmill and dancing fountains
Enjoy an ouzaki by the market
Buy Pontic Greek food specialties at the market (to your right when you enter Nea Ionia coming from Athens)
Buy a sweet from “Ta Gioulia”, making life sweeter since 1945
Shop till you drop along Irakliou Ave
Hang out at the dozens of cafes on the pedestrian walkway off Irakliou Avenue.
Visit the Center for the Study and Promotion of Asia Minor Culture KE.MI.PO (4 Patriarchou Ioakeim St) to learn more about the Asia Minor Greeks
Visit the Filio Chaidemenou Museum of Asia Minor Hellenism (125 Dekeleias Ave) featuring a vast collection of heirlooms and items gathered over the years by Chaidemenou, who lived through the Burning of Smyrna in 1923 which forced up to 400,000 Greeks and Armenian refugees to flee their homes. Learn more about life in Anatolia before, during and after the Asia Minor Catastrophe
Visit the Panaitolio on Panetoliou Square in Alsoupoli (near the Olympic Stadium). The building was erected in 1930 and first operated as the “Ta Pefka” hotel later to be used by the Germans as headquarters. Today it a cultural center.
Catch a film at the Asteras municipal cinema.
Check out the AEK football stadium in Nea Philadelphia also known as the “Agia Sophia Stadium” named in honor of the Orthodox Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was the center of the Byzantine world
