Glyfada | Athens Riviera

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Zisimos Zizos
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Glyfada Neighbourhood Guide
Home turf to millionaires and popstars, this most commercial of beachy suburbs lies 16km from the Acropolis. Often compared to Beverly Hills, there are luxe, leafy pockets where you could indeed be on Rodeo Drive: jazzy Kyprou and Laodikis Streets with their upscale boutiques, imported palm trees and style-conscious pavement cafes. But Glyfada is a game of two halves. Glam and grit presently exist side by side in this recession-hit postcode, especially in the former social HQ of Zisimopoulou Street, where a slew of boarded-up cafes and restaurants at the lower end evoke less salubrious parts of downtown.

Glyfada’s main retail artery of Metaxa Street runs from Agiou Konstantinou cathedral, opposite the Glyfada Nautical Club. It’s a long, open-air shopping mall of international and Greek fashion chains and shoe shops, serviced by frequent tram stops and fast food outlets. In the 1990s, a United States air base cleared out of this southern seaside hub, leaving behind an American echo in Metaxa’s retro marble shopping arcades and in the country’s first 18-hole pro-golf course.

Glyfada’s prettier, greener and more interesting side streets present a cosmopolitan village vibe and an ever-changing carousel of new tastes and brands to be road-tested on a mostly-affluent audience. The suburb’s character is also nuanced by the many working families who’ve lived here for generations, when Glyfada was still an unassuming coastal town (long before the tram line connected it to Syntagma Square and Piraeus in time for the 2004 Olympics).

Kyprou—The street that’s a neighbourhood
The extended thoroughfare of Kyprou, running parallel to Metaxa and neatly dissected by sociable Esperidon Square, possesses an upbeat, self-contained energy and glamour that’s Glyfada distilled. Observe the trendy trattorias, edgy boutiques, beauty bars, buzzy French delis and concept stores. It’s also where you’re most likely to find beautiful Athenians dressed in black, staking out stylish drinking dens like Pere Ubu, 57, Su Casa and Oh Mama. Kyprou is ground zero for serious shoppers not interested in Metaxa’s high-street trinkets: the street is colonised by high-end boutiques like Pinko, Zadig & Voltaire and Mirina Tsantili, championing Greek designers beside international labels.

Taste Glyfada
Don’t get too attached to that great new Thai place you loved on your last visit. In Glyfada, nothing stays still for long. Old favourites shut down seemingly overnight, to be replaced by new ventures. It’s all about knowing where to look. Again, Kyprou is where it’s mostly at (current hotspots include Sea Spice and Vittoria Gati—on Nymphon Square opposite), along with nearby Laodikis (Café Soleto and Nomi). Together, they form a hip foodie triangle around Metaxa’s southern end. There’s another popular foodie pocket in elegant Botsari, closer to the Agiou Konstantinou precinct of central Glyfada, with Il Salotto one of the star draws. At the same end, O Proedros (The President), in Savva Lazaridi, is a neighbourhood favourite that feels like a Cycladic island taverna with colourful woven chairs arranged under shady plane trees on a whitewashed courtyard.

The Glyfada Coast
A string of perfectly-serviceable public beaches, some with free umbrellas, line the Glyfada seafront. Punctuated by several marinas and cafes, they’re easily reached from downtown Athens by tram or bus (the third beach generally has the better sand and cleaner water). Many locals are happy enough to cool off here; but the peacocks head for the considerably more fashionable and photogenic Asteras Beach Resort about a kilometre further south. Asteras is a long privately-developed stretch of sandy coast divided into separate leisure hubs with valet parking and all-day offerings, including Balux Pool Seaside (with an adults-only seafront pool and beach bar), and chic café-restaurant Ark.

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[katherinatsapisi]

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[ReturnToBase]

Είναι όμορφο πλάνα. Μου αρέσει πάρα πολύ.
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[Pasxosd]

Ωραία χρώματα !!! Συγχαρητήρια για τους 1000 !!!

[Chef-Andre]

hallo Leute, wo gibt es das beste Fischlokol in Glyfada ??

[Divemag]

Συνεχεια το βλέπω....Γλυφαδαρα εξωτικη