Karytsi Square Neighborhood of Athens

Karytsi Square
the News-Bar neighborhood

A vital corner of Athens, Karytsi Square, is named after the elegant church dedicated to Aghios Georgios (St. George) Karytsis, built by architect L. Kaftantzoglou, at the site of an older church.

Other than Aghios Georgios Karytsis, Parnassos Literary Society, the Moussouri Theater, as well as the former HQs of the Lambrakis News Group are landmarks of the area.

Recently the area has developed into a hotspot for the young and trendy, and where history, culture and gastronomy have merged symbiotically. Completing the scene are the numerous smaller or larger bars, bar/restaurants, snack bars, and café-bars.

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The church of Aghios Georgios Karytsis, in the middle of Karytsi Square.

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Dine & Wine

Black Duck bistrot

Theaters

Moussouri Theater

Churches

Aghios Georgios Karytsis

Shopping

Coffee Corner, a landmark of the area, at 4, Praxitelous Street, corner with Karytsi Square, supplies Athenians, both neighbors and coffee aficionados from afar, with excellent java! Buy coffee for the coffee-maker of your Airbnb or rental apartment or your hotel room, and buy some Greek coffee for back home!

Landmarks | Sightseeing

Parnassos Literary Society offers lectures, quality music concerts and frequent art exhibitions, in a historic landmark building which was turned into a military court
during the Nazi occupation and became a place of martyrdom for many Greek members of the resistance.

Coffee | Bar | Snacks

Barley Cargo
Blink
Gin Joint
La vie en rock

Pairi daeza
Priza
The Bank Job
The Seven Jokers

Toy Cafe bar
Shakespeare bar

Use

Slideshow

Noteworthy

The former HQs of the historic Lambrakis News Group (DOL), publishers among many others of To Vema, Ta Nea, and Athens News, dailies, and Tachydromos weekly, now housing the Greek offices of The National Herald of New York, were located for decades here, on Christou Lada Street, just off Karytsi Square.

This page is dedicated to my father Frantzis C. Frantzeskakis (1926-2010) who started working for the Lambrakis News Group as an orphan young boy at the tender age of fourteen, during the German occupation of Greece.

Area Map

Karytsi Squarethe News-Bar neighborhood