ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ

ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ is a bus stop in Athens, Attica. ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ is situated nearby to the community center Politeia, as well as near the park αρχαιολογικό πάρκο της Ακαδημίας Πλάτωνος.

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 180 metres south of ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ.

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 ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ.

Mosque of Athens

Mosque

Photo: NikosLikomitros, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Votanikos Mosque, more commonly known as the Mosque of Athens or the Athens Mosque, is a mosque in the Votanikos neighbourhood of Athens, Greece. It is the first official mosque in the Greek capital since the Greek War of Independence. Mosque of Athens is situated 1 km southwest of ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΥ.

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.