Curated Stays

Architectural Sanctuaries.

A selection of Athens' most significant modernist and neo-classical hotels, curated for the design-conscious traveller.

Ergon House Ermou — neoclassical facade on Ermou pedestrian street, Athens

Ergon House Ermou

Eleven rooms around a courtyard at Ermou 98, with Taverna Ermou and an Ergon Originals store on the ground floor. The second Ergon House opened in 2026, occupying a neoclassical building on the pedestrian western stretch of Ermou — between Monastiraki and Thissio.

Monument Hotel

9 rooms inside an 1881 Ernst Ziller mansion on Kalamida, restored 2023 by MPlusM. Listed Building and Modern Monument, deep in Psyrri. A wood staircase, frescoed ceilings, a wellness room in the basement.

A room interior at The Modernist hotel in Athens — a modernist design hotel in the city centre

The Modernist

Interior of The Dolli hotel in Athens — a contemporary boutique hotel near Syntagma Square

The Dolli

A restored 1925 neoclassical building on the edge of Plaka, run as a 46-key hôtel-maison by Grecotel. An art-filled salon below — Cocteau, Calder, Lalanne — and an infinity pool aligned to the Acropolis above.

The neoclassical façade of Hotel Grande Bretagne on Syntagma Square, Athens — one of Europe's grand historic hotels since 1874

Hotel Grande Bretagne

Athens' grand dame on Syntagma Square. Built in 1842 as a private mansion by Theophil Hansen, opened as a hotel in 1874. 320 keys, two MICHELIN Keys, a rooftop with the only direct sightline from a bar to the Parthenon.

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Restaurants and cafés within walking distance of where you stay.

The pool terrace at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Glyfada — a contemporary Athens Riviera hotel with outdoor pool and sea views

Ace Hotel & Swim Club

120 rooms on the Glyfada beachfront, inside the bones of the 1972 Fenix Hotel. Brutalist balconies, two pools, an art programme curated with Ateliers Ace. A 1970s Riviera reopened by Paris design studio Cigué.

Anthology of Athens

Anthology of Athens is a five-star cultural boutique hotel on Leoforos Syngrou, steps from the Temple of Olympian Zeus and a Member of The Leading Hotels of the World. It holds a Michelin Key (2025), LEED Gold certification, and the Green Key. Biophilic design runs through the building — vertical gardens, a planted atrium, rooftop terrace — alongside a spa, two restaurants, and eight room categories with Acropolis or temple views.

Perianth Hotel — exterior

Perianth Hotel

The Margi hotel in Vouliagmeni on the Athens Riviera — a luxury property set among pine trees near the seafront

The Margi

The Margi is a family-run boutique hotel on the Athenian Riviera at Vouliagmeni, 23 kilometres from central Athens. Founded in 1960 by Dr. Yiangos Stavridis, who named it after his daughters Maria and Gina, it is now in its third generation under Theo and Yiangos Agiostratitis. 89 rooms across five floors. Three restaurants, including Patio — led by Michelin-starred chef Panagiotis Giakalis, nine tables, advance reservation required. Own organic farm. SLH member.

Interior of Monastik Living in Mets, Athens — an eleven-suite boutique hotel with glass walls, natural materials and views toward the Acropolis

Monastik

Monastik Living sits on a hillside street in Mets, one of Athens’s quietest residential neighbourhoods. Designed by Athens-based architects George Gavalas and Giannis Mourikis, the eleven suites feature glass walls, natural materials — stone, clay, marble, black sheet metal — and a curated collection of Greek art and objects. Many rooms look directly at the Acropolis. A rooftop terrace with plunge pool is shared by all guests.

BARS & APERITIVO

After Dark.

Considered bars and the quiet rituals of the Athenian evening.

The design interiors of Shila hotel in Athens — a boutique property in the city centre

Shila

Shila occupies a neoclassical townhouse from the late 1920s on Mantzarou — a quiet, pedestrianised street in the heart of Kolonaki. Six suites, each with a distinct character: Garden Retreat, Romantic Dust, La Bohème, The Dreamers, Attic Antique, Artist Atelier. Roof garden, Library Lounge, lush courtyard. Part of the House of Shila group. Michelin Guide listed.

Colors

Colors sits on Emmanouil Benaki in the heart of Exarchia, a neighbourhood that has always done things its own way. Since 2011 the hotel has offered 29 rooms dressed in carefully chosen, contrasting colour combinations — from bold Economy doubles to a family room with bunks and a Penthouse Suite. The mood is residential and low-key; the location puts the whole city within reach.

Not Hotel Athens — façade and entrance on Voutadon Street, Gazi

Not Hotel

A room at Xenodocheio Milos in Athens — a neoclassical hotel on Kolokotroni Street, home to Estiatorio Milos

Xenodocheio Milos

Xenodocheio Milos opened in 2022 in a Ministry of Culture-designated landmark from the 1880s, on Kolokotroni directly opposite the Old Parliament. The 43-room hotel is the first property from Estiatorio Milos — Costas Spiliadis’s international Greek fine-dining group. Neoclassical proportions intact: high ceilings, marble bathrooms, individually designed rooms. The ground-floor restaurant draws Athens’s social set nightly. Syntagma Square is three minutes on foot.

The refined interiors of Monsieur Didot, a boutique hotel in Athens

Monsieur Didot

Monsieur Didot occupies a neoclassical mansion built in 1890 at the corner of Sina and Didotou streets in Kolonaki — the street named after the same man the hotel honours. Ambroise Firmin Didot was a French publisher, typographer and committed philhellene whose family established the first printing press in the newly formed Greek state. The property was conceived by civil engineers Natalia Georgopoulou and Margarita Papaioannou and designed by Athens studio BaBatchas. Six rooms and suites, each named after a literary form.

While You're Here.

Markets, museums, beaches, and the places locals don't point out.

MONA Athens — exterior

Mona Athens

A concept hotel and art gallery in a preserved 1950s industrial factory in Psyrri. Twenty rooms, a basement speakeasy, a members-only rooftop. House of Shila's second property — raw where Shila was refined.

A77 Suites

A77 Suites occupies a restored 19th century neoclassical building on Adrianou Street, at the foot of the Acropolis. The original stables, high ceilings, blue shutters, and gypsum cornices remain — reinterpreted into twelve suites across three floors, with marble, brass, and a soft neutral palette. Breakfast arrives to the room. A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, part of the Andronis group.

Pallas Athena hotel on Athinas Street in Athens — a Grecotel design hotel with commissioned street art murals throughout its rooms

Athena

Interior of The Twenty One, a boutique hotel in central Athens

The Twenty One

21 rooms in Kifissia, the leafy northern suburb where Athenian money has always gone to breathe. The first Athens hotel from Alex and Philip Varveris — the pair behind The Wild Hotel by Interni in Mykonos. Interni Studio interiors, bronze details, a piece by the Bouroullec brothers. On Mr & Mrs Smith.

Interior of Praxitelous Suites in central Athens — a boutique hotel in the historic Monastiraki area

Praxitelous Suites

Praxitelous Suites occupies a building at number 14 on Praxitelous Street, in the commercial centre of Athens, 600 metres from Monastiraki Square and a block south of Ermou. Eighteen suites across seven configurations — from Superior Double to the top-floor King Suite with wraparound sundeck and Jacuzzi. À la carte breakfast, restaurant and bar on site. Twenty-four-hour front desk.

Who Built This.

The architects, owners, and curators behind the places we cover.

Ergon House Frontdesk

Ergon House Athens

38 rooms above the Ergon Agora, the Douzenis family's food market on Mitropoleos. A butcher, a baker, a fishmonger, a deli, and a 200-year-old olive tree under one atrium. The hotel almost as an afterthought — but only almost.

Coco Mat Jumelle

56 rooms across two Kolonaki buildings — a 1925 neoclassical and a 1965 modern — connected as one hotel. The bedding is by COCO-MAT, the brand that started everything. Indoor pool, free bikes, rooftop with the Lycabettus light.

AthensWas Design Hotel — exterior

AthensWas Design Hotel

Fresh Hotel — exterior

Fresh Hotel

Central Athens' first design hotel, on the corner of Athinas and Sofokleous. A 2003 Tassos Zepos building with a new Paola Navone extension. Rooftop pool, Acropolis on the skyline.

An interior at New Hotel Athens — the Campana Brothers' design hotel assembled from salvaged fittings of the former Olympic Palace Hotel on Filellinon Street

New Hotel

New Hotel occupies a midcentury building on Filellinon Street, steps from Syntagma Square. In 2011, São Paulo designers Fernando and Humberto Campana — their first hotel project — transformed the former Olympic Palace Hotel by salvaging everything inside it. The result: 79 rooms where a 1940s marble staircase survives intact and every fitting, chandelier, and surface is assembled from what the original building left behind.

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Ergon Bake House

Ergon Bake House

29 rooms above a 72-hour sourdough bakery on Mitropoleos. The Douzenis family's second Athens hotel, four doors from Ergon House. The bakery runs 24/7; the rooms run quieter than the queue downstairs.

The Roc Club

The Roc Club opened in May 2024 on the beachfront at Vouliagmeni — Grecotel’s first Sanctuary property on the Athens Riviera. Thirty-four rooms and suites sit directly above the Saronic Gulf, twenty kilometres from the city centre. The scale is deliberately intimate; the position, on a private stretch of coastline between Vouliagmeni’s pine hills and the sea, is exceptional.

Restored neoclassical facade of Emerald Hotel Athens on Perikleous Street — arched doorways and ornate plasterwork in the historic centre

Emerald

The Journal

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The Athens Journal.

Weekly dispatches on architectural openings, brutalist rediscoveries, and curated Athenian stays.