Syntagma Square or Plateia Syntagmatos, is a large square in the heart of Athens located in front of the parliament house. It was at this square that King Otto reluctantly granted a constitution to the Greek people in 1843.
Syntagma Square or Constitution Square was once the front garden of the old royal palace that is now the parliament house. Today it is a bustling square that is located near many major tourist attractions in Athens and connected by many busy roads. It is also a major transportation hub where trams, the subway and buses take visitors to several important destinations in and around Athens. Syntagma Square is and was the venue for political and other demonstrations and public meetings.
Syntagma Square is laid in two levels. The Eastern part is higher than the Western. There is a fountain at the center of the square and several benches where visitors and locals relax or use free high speed wifi internet offered by the Municipality of Athens. There are two green areas with pine, oleander and orange trees and two cafes that offer refreshments. The municipality has recently renovated the square with white marble and new lamp posts. The fountain and benches around it have also been restored.

The Hellenic Parliament is located in the Parliament House, a beautiful three-floor structure designed in the Neoclassical style. This building was constructed in 1843 and initially served as a palace for the Greek monarchs.

The Benaki Museum is a repository of the collection of historical objects by Athenian resident, Antonis Benakis. It was established in 1930 in the house of Emmanouil Benakis, the father of Antonis.
The museum is in a house built in neoclassical style for the merchant, Loannis Peroglou who later sold the mansion to businessman, Panagis Charokopos. Emmanouil Benakis bought the building from Charokopos in 1910. The entire structure was redesigned and a wing was added to house the museum in 1930 after the death of Emmanouil. After 1974, several works of art were added that exceeded the capacity of the building. Many exhibits especially the objects belonging to the Islamic era and the Chinese collection were moved to other facilities and today the main Benaki Museum has only collections pertaining to Greece.
The Benaki Museum has three floors with exhibits that go back to 6500 BC. Objects include gold and silver bowls from 3000 BC, jewelry dating back to 1500 BC and an extensive range of ancient to modern costumes. There are also two rooms that are replicas of traditional Greek houses showing the typical lifestyle of the people.
The Benaki Museum stays open on Mondays but is closed on Tuesdays. It is located close to the Syntagma Square and has a café and well stocked gift shop for the convenience of visitors.

The core collection of this museum is artifacts from the Bronze Age Civilization that flourished in the Cycladic Islands of the Aegean Sea. It is a repository of the collection of Nicholas and Aikaterini (Dolly) Goulandris.
Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris collected Cycladic Art and built the main museum for the purpose of showcasing their collection. It was designed by architect, Loannis Vikelas and was opened for public viewing in 1986. In 1990, the museum obtained an additional venue. The magnificent neo classical Stathatos Mansion also houses the exhibits of Cycladic art from the collection, today.
The exhibits in the museum cover four floors. The focus is the collection of Cycladic art from 3000 to 2000 BC. Female figurines from the Cycladic Islands form the major part of the exhibits. There are also marbles, pottery and bronze sculptures. The upper floors have a collection of art and artifacts from Cyprus and other ancient Greek objects that formed part of the Goulandris collection. All objects are displayed elegantly with detailed information boards. The Museum also hosts temporary art exhibitions.
The Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art is run by the Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation. There is a café in the courtyard and a well stocked bookshop with books in Greek and English. The gift shop has reproductions of the exhibits in the museum including marble figurines and bronze replicas of ancient Greek bronze ritual vessels.

The collection in this museum is dedicated to exhibits from early Christian relics and art from the Byzantine Empire that flourished before the Crusades. The collection consists of art from the 4th to the 19th centuries AD.
The Byzantine and Christian Museum is located in the Llissia mansion that was once the winter residence of the Duchess of Piacenza. The old building was designed and constructed by architect Stamatis Kleanthis and completed in 1848. It was converted into a Museum in 1930. Three underground display halls were added in 1993 to accommodate the vast collection of objects belonging to the Museum. The courtyard has a fountain with an ancient Christian Mosaic and the surrounding walls have architectural fragments from many ancient Churches.
The museum has a collection of 15,000 ancient Christian exhibits. These include sculpture, costumes, paintings, ornaments, 3500 icons, oil lamps depicting scenes from Roman and Christian traditions from the 3rd to the 6th centuries and sacred jewelry. There are also rare gold coins from the Byzantine Empire and a ceramic collection of objects found from ships wrecked near Egypt.
The Museum has a conservation department that organizes educational programs for children for the purpose of teaching them about the Byzantine Empire that flourished in the region for over 1000 years.

The Athens War Museum is dedicated to the battles fought by the Greeks from the classical age to the present. This purpose-built structure has a late modernistic architectural style, popular in the 1950s.
The War Museum in Athens showcases all the wars that the Greek armed forces fought have been involved in throughout the ages. It was inaugurated in 1975. The first floor of the building is larger than the ground floor, thus giving it a mushroom-like appearance. The modern museum is the first in Athens that is fitted with an amphitheatre for seminars and lectures. The building also has conference and reception rooms, a space for storage and offices that document and maintain the exhibits.
Exhibits at the War Museum are spread across three floors. The ground floor has weaponry used by the Greek armed forces in World War II, the Korean War and the exposition dedicated to the history of the battles in Cyprus. The first floor has paintings and objects depicting Greek war history from the classical age till World War II. Cannons fired through history are found outside the museum, along with the selection of war planes flown by the Greek Air Force over the years. The building also houses an extensive library and photographic archive.

The National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum is a repository of Greek and European Art from the 14th to the 20th centuries. It has an extensive collection of Greek art after the fall of Byzantine and renaissance paintings.
The National Art Gallery started as a small collection at the Athens University in 1878. Alexander Soutzos, a lawyer and lover of art donated his vast collection to the Greek government in 1896 and a new gallery was built to house the exhibits in 1900. Over the years, it has received many valuable art donations from famous art collectors, plus purchased many valuable renaissance artworks itself. The present national art gallery was opened for the public viewing in 1976.
The art gallery has a vast collection of contemporary Greek art as well. There are over 10,000 paintings, a range of sculpture, furniture, miniatures and engravings. Besides notable works of Greek artists, there are paintings by European masters like Picasso and Rembrandt. The notable section of the art gallery is the Renaissance Collection of Art that displays paintings by El Greco, Jacob Jordeans and Lorenzo Veneziano. The gallery also organizes temporary exhibitions of artwork from other museums and contemporary Greek artists for interested visitors and art lovers.

The Athens Concert Hall is famed for its excellent acoustics and unique architecture. It was opened in 1991 and has hosted performances by famous Greek and international artists, opera and musical concerts all through the year.
The Athens Concert Hall was designed by architect, Christopher Alexander, and has a floor space of 8,000 square feet. There are two large halls and two smaller halls. The Christos Lambrakis Hall seats 1,961 spectators and is used for concerts and music recitals. The hall has the largest pipe organ in Greece with 6,080 pipes. The other large auditorium is named after singer Alexandra Trianti. It can seat an audience of 1,750 spectators and is used for opera, ballet and large scale music performances. The Dimitri Mitropoulos hall has a seating capacity of 494 and is used for dance performances and chamber music. There is another small hall named after composer, Nikolaos Skalkottas, that is also used for concerts.
The concert hall has a beautiful and spacious marble lobby. The building also houses a music library, a conference centre, an exhibition centre, a restaurant and café. In summer, there are free music performances transmitted from inside the theatre to a large screen located outside, on the lawn.