Thymarakia
Thymarakia is a neighborhood of the center of Athens. It takes its name from the Greek word 'θυμάρι' which means 'thyme', which was formerly plentiful in the area. The area is served by Agios Nikolaos metro station on line 1 of the Athens Metro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Platonic Academy and Agios Nikolaos.
Platonic Academy
Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.
Agios Nikolaos
Metro station
Photo: Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Nikolaos, also known as Aghios Nikolaos on signage, is on Athens Metro Line 1. It was opened by the Hellenic Electric Railways on 12 February 1956, and is 13.164 kilometres along the line from Piraeus.
Attiki
Metro station
Photo: Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Attiki is a metro station in Athens, Greece. The station opened in 1885. It was the main hub of Attica Railways, a metre gauge network connecting downtown Athens with the mining town of Lavrion and the northern suburbs of Marousi and Kifissia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sepolia and Skouze Hill.
Sepolia
Quarter
Photo: Pavlos1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sepolia is a neighborhood in Athens, Greece. The Sepolia metro station is situated in the neighborhood. Sepolia owes to its name in the Greek phrase esopolis, which means "inside the city".
Skouze Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skouze Hill is a hill located in Athens, Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill. In Antiquity, it was dedicated to and named after "Demeter Euchloös".
Agios Panteleimonas
Neighborhood
Photo: Peloponnisios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Panteleimonas or Aghios Panteleimonas is a neighbourhood of Athens, located northwest of the centre of Athens between Viktorias Square and Attikis Square.
Thymarakia
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood in Athens, Attica, Greece
- Category: locality
- Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.00426° or 38° 0′ 15″ northLongitude
23.7238° or 23° 43′ 26″ eastElevation
79 metres (259 feet)Open location code
8GC52P3F+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 11806027625OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Thymarakia” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Thymarakia”
- Finnish: “Thymarákia”
- French: “Thymarákia”
- Greek: “Θυμαράκια”
- Urdu: “تھیماراکیا”
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