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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.

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.

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Perianth Hotel — exterior

Perianth Hotel

38 rooms inside a 1930s Streamline Modern building on Agia Irini Square. Opened 2018 by the Sgoumpopoulos family, interior by K-Studio. A neo-modernist tribute to the Athens that almost was.

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.

Anthology of Athens hotel entrance on Leoforos Syngrou, Athens

Anthology of Athens

AthensWas Design Hotel — exterior

AthensWas Design Hotel

21 rooms on Dionysiou Areopagitou, the pedestrian street below the Acropolis. A 2015 design hotel by Stavros Papagiannis, scored to the swinging Sixties of Athens.

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.

BARS & APERITIVO

After Dark.

Considered bars and the quiet rituals of the Athenian evening.

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

Not Hotel

21 rooms inside a 200-year-old stone building on Voutadon, restored 2023. A former brothel, army barn, gas-worker housing, film studio — the building has had eight lives, and NOT is the ninth. One MICHELIN Key.

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.

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

Xenodocheio Milos

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.

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.

While You're Here.

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

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.

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.

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

Hotel Grande Bretagne

Sympan

Sympan

Sympan is a café-bar, gallery and four-room residency at 7 Aitolikou Street in Agios Dionysios, Piraeus. Kosmas Karavas — the designer behind Lab Piree and Pirée — opened it in September 2026 inside an old residence wrapped in an industrial shell, converted by cube architects. Exhibitions rotate on the Load/Unload cycle; the rooms upstairs are all called Kamara.

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

Athena

Pallas Athena sits on Athinas Street, a block from the Varvakeios market in central Athens. The Grecotel property’s defining feature is its graffiti: Signature Graffiti Guestrooms carry commissioned floor-to-ceiling street art murals — each by a named artist, each room different. Sixty-three rooms and suites in one of the city’s most animated quarters.

Who Built This.

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

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.

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.

A77 Suites — boutique suites in a neoclassical building, Plaka, Athens

A77 Suites

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.

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

Emerald

Emerald occupies a restored neoclassical building on Perikleous Street, midway between Syntagma Square and Monastiraki. Five suites — Aide, Gaia, Meleti, Mneme, and the duplex Emerald — fill a building whose arched doorways and plaster ceiling details have been preserved alongside modern comforts. The duplex suite adds a terrace with an outdoor bath. Next door: Yphes restaurant.

FROM THE JOURNAL

The Athens Hotel as Architectural Statement.

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.

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.

Coco Mat Jumelle — exterior

Coco Mat Jumelle

A sea-facing room at The Roc Club in Vouliagmeni — Grecotel's Sanctuary property on the Athens Riviera, opened 2024

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.

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