Pizza Academy

Pizza Academy is a restaurant in Athens, Attica which is located on Πλάτωνος. Pizza Academy is situated nearby to the quarter Akadimia Platonos, as well as near the ruins Part of Gymnasium.

Type: Restaurant
Cuisine: pizza
Address: Πλάτωνος 95

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Athens railway station.

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. Platonic Academy is situated 210 metres west of Pizza Academy.

Athens railway station

Railway station

Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Athens railway station is the main railway station of Athens and the second-largest station in Greece. Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the… Athens railway station is situated 1 km east of Pizza Academy.

Temple of Hephaestus

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion, is a well-preserved Greek temple dedicated to Hephaestus; it remains standing largely intact today. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill. Temple of Hephaestus is situated 2 km southeast of Pizza Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Akadimia Platonos and Kolonos.

Akadimia Platonos

Quarter

Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Akadimia Platonos literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens.

Kolonos

Quarter

Colonus or Kolonos was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river Cephissus.