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Kolonaki

Kolonaki, literally "Little Column", is an upscale neighborhood in central , . It is located on the southern slopes of . Its name derives from the two metre column that defined the area even before the area's urbanization.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Benaki Museum and Museum of Cycladic Art.

Museum
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The , established and endowed in 1930 by Antonis Benakis in memory of his father Emmanuel Benakis, is housed in the Benakis family mansion in , .

Museum
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The Nikolaos P. Goulandris Foundation - is a museum in that houses a notable collection of artifacts of Cycladic art. The museum was founded in 1986 in order to house the collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art belonging to Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris.

Archaeological site
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The (, Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion /lý.keː.on/ was a temple in dedicated to Apollo Lyceus. It was best known for the Peripatetic school of philosophy founded there by Aristotle in 334 BC.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rigillis and Athens.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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is the capital city of with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.

Neighborhood
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, literally "Academy", is a neighborhood in central , . Located directly north and slight west of , it is bounded by Akadimias Street, Panepistimiou Street, Solonos Street and Stadiou Street.

Kolonaki

Latitude
37.97698° or 37° 58′ 37″ north
Longitude
23.74081° or 23° 44′ 27″ east
Population
800
Elevation
143 metres (469 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPGR+Q8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 661193231
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
8223990
Wiki­data ID
Q1779602
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Urdu—“Kolonaki” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Kolonaki”
  • Chinese: “科洛纳基”
  • Danish: “Kolonaki”
  • Dutch: “Kolonaki”
  • Esperanto: “Kolonaki”
  • Faroese: “Kolonaki”
  • Finnish: “Kolonaki”
  • Finnish: “Kolonáki”
  • French: “Kolonaki”
  • French: “Kolonáki”
  • German: “Kolonaki”
  • Greek: “Κολωνάκι Αττικής”
  • Greek: “Κολωνάκι”
  • Hebrew: “אתונה/מרכז העיר”
  • Icelandic: “Kolonaki”
  • Italian: “Kolonaki”
  • Japanese: “コロナキ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kolonaki”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolonaki”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kolonaki”
  • Norwegian: “Kolonaki”
  • Russian: “Колонаки”
  • Slovenian: “Kolonaki”
  • Spanish: “Kolonaki”
  • Swedish: “Kolonaki”
  • Turkish: “Kolonaki”
  • Ukrainian: “Колонакі”
  • Urdu: “کولوناکی”

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