ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ

ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ is a bus stop in Athens, Attica. ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ is situated nearby to the quarter Akadimia Platonos, as well as near the ruins Part of Gymnasium.

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 west of ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ.

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 ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ.

Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

Museum

Photo: Marsyas, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces that date as far back as 860 BC. Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is situated 1½ km south of ΜΑΥΡΟΜΑΤΗ.

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.