Cheap flights to Athens are on every serious traveller's wish list. The sight of the floodlit Parthenon at the top of the Acropolis alone is worth whatever you've paid for the tickets.
Athens has bags of character and a unique atmosphere, the result of those 2,500 years of life, endeavour and effort. Once dismissed as smoggy and dirty, hosting the Olympic Games in 2004 gave the city a new lease on life and now it's one of the top city-break destinations in the world. However, while boutique hotels have sprung up and ritzy restaurants are being written up in the world's press, while the airport is just losing its freshly-constructed sheen and residents and visitors are enjoying their journeys on the new metro, while new and expanded museums are attracting visitors, the heart of Athens beats strong.
With Syntagma Square and Monastiraki, Omonia Square is the third point of the triangle at the heart of modern Athens. Plaka, the tangle of streets in the skirts of the towering Acropolis is to the south. Further east, the regenerated areas of Thissio and Gazi are now firmly on the map.
