Attica
Athens Prefecture
Athens

National Garden

The National Garden, called the Royal Garden until 1974, is a public park of 15.5 hectares in the center of the capital, . It is located between the districts of and , directly behind the Greek Parliament building and continues to the South to the area where the Zappeion is located, across from the Panathenaiko or Kalimarmaro Olympic Stadium of the 1896 Olympic Games.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: public park in Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Ethnikos kipos”, “Ethnikos Kipos”, “National Garden of Athens”, “National Garden, Athens”, and “Vasilikos kipos”
  • Historically known as: “Royal Garden”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parthenon and Lyceum.

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The is a former temple on the , Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilization, and democracy.

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.

Government office
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The in , , is the official residence of the president of the . It served previously as the Royal Palace, until the abolition of the monarchy by the 1974 referendum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Rigillis.

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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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is a neighborhood.

Quarter
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Pláka is the old historical neighborhood of , clustered around the northern and eastern slopes of the , and incorporating labyrinthine streets and neoclassical architecture.

National Garden

Latitude
37.97326° or 37° 58′ 24″ north
Longitude
23.73774° or 23° 44′ 16″ east
Elevation
106 metres (348 feet)
Open location code
8G95XPFQ+83
Geo­Names ID
9036410
Wiki­data ID
Q646284
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“National Garden” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الحديقة الوطنية، أثينا”
  • Armenian: “Աթենքի ազգային պարտեզ”
  • Cebuano: “Ethnikós Kípos”
  • Chinese: “雅典国家花园”
  • Chinese: “雅典國家花園”
  • Chinese: “雅典國立花園”
  • Dutch: “Nationale tuin van Athene”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Ĝardeno”
  • Finnish: “Kansallispuutarha”
  • French: “jardin national d’Athènes”
  • French: “Jardin national d’Athènes”
  • German: “Nationalgarten”
  • Greek: “Βασιλικός κήπος”
  • Greek: “Βασιλικός Κήπος” (historical)
  • Greek: “Εθνικός Κήπος”
  • Hebrew: “הגן הלאומי (אתונה)”
  • Hebrew: “הגן הלאומי”
  • Italian: “Giardino nazionale di Atene”
  • Italian: “Giardino Nazionale di Atene”
  • Japanese: “アテネ国立庭園”
  • Korean: “국립정원”
  • Malayalam: “നാഷണൽ ഗാർഡൻ ഓഫ് ഏതൻസ്”
  • Russian: “Национальный сад”
  • Serbian: “Национални врт”
  • Spanish: “Jardin nacional de Atenas”
  • Spanish: “Jardín nacional de Atenas”
  • Swedish: “Ethnikós Kípos”
  • Turkish: “Ulusal Bahçe”
  • Ukrainian: “Національний сад”
  • Urdu: “قومی باغ، ایتھنز”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include National Garden and Zappio Megaro.

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