Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄

Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄ is a square in Nea Smyrni, Athens Prefecture, Attica. Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄ is situated nearby to the park Πλατεία Ηροδότου, as well as near the church Άγιοι Θεόδωροι.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Library of Greece and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

National Library of Greece

Library

Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The National Library of Greece is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production. National Library of Greece is situated 1½ km west of Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Park

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a cultural center complex in the municipality of Kallithea in Athens, Greece. It includes new facilities for the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, as well as the 210,000 m2 Stavros Niarchos Park. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is situated 1½ km west of Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄.

Tactual Museum

Museum

The Tactual Museum of Athens is a museum for the visually impaired in Kallithea, Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1984 by the Kallithea-based association Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece to allow visually impaired people to become familiarised with the cultural heritage of Greece. Tactual Museum is situated 1 km northwest of Πλατεία Βασιλέως Γεωργίου Β΄.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nea Smyrni and Palaio Faliro.

Nea Smyrni

Suburb

Photo: Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nea Smyrni is a municipality and a town in South Athens, Greece. At the 2021 census, it had 72,853 inhabitants. It was named after the former Greek city Smyrna, whence many refugees arrived and settled in the Nea Smyrni area following the 1922 Burning of Smyrna, during the Greco-Turkish war.