Victoria Square

Victoria Square is a large square in the Municipality of Athens, Greece situated between 3rd September and Aristotelous streets, and crossing Hayden street.

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Type: Square
Description: open square in Athens, Greece
Also known as: “Viktoria Square”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Victoria and Hellenic Motor Museum.

Victoria

Metro station

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Victoria is on Athens Metro Line 1, between Omonia and Attiki. It is named after the British monarch Queen Victoria. The station is underground, beneath Victoria Square, and was recently renovated.

The Hellenic Motor Museum is a car museum in Athens. It is owned by the Theodore Charagionis Foundation and opened in March 2011. The museum is situated in central Athens near the National Archaeological Museum, on the three top floors of the Athenian Capitol shopping mall. Hellenic Motor Museum is situated 220 metres south of Victoria Square.

Epigraphical Museum

Museum

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The Epigraphical Museum of Athens, Greece, is unique in Greece and the largest of its kind in the world. Its collection comprises 14,078, mostly Greek, inscriptions, which cover the period from early historical times to the Late Roman period, primarily in Greece. Epigraphical Museum is situated 540 metres southeast of Victoria Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agios Panteleimonas and Vathi.

Agios Panteleimonas

Neighborhood

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Agios Panteleimonas or Aghios Panteleimonas is a neighbourhood of Athens, located northwest of the centre of Athens between Viktoria Square and Attikis Square.

Vathi

Neighborhood

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Vathi is a neighborhood of the center of Athens. It is north of Athens' downtown. The center of the neighborhood is Vathis Square.

Attiki

Neighborhood

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Attiki is a neighbourhood of Athens, located northwest of the city centre. The neighbourhood and its central square are named after Attica Railways, a railway company that constructed the line Athens-Kifissia-Lavrion.

Victoria Square

Category: locality
Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude

37.99314° or 37° 59′ 35″ north

Longitude

23.72962° or 23° 43′ 47″ east

Open location code

8G95XPVH+7R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 50007579

OpenStreetMap feature

place=square

Wikidata ID

Q19604711

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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Russian—“Victoria Square” goes by many names.

Finnish: “Plateía Viktorías”
French: “place Kyriakoú”
French: “place Victoría”
French: “Place Victoría”
German: “Viktoria-Platz”
Greek: “Πλατεία Βικτωρίας”
Russian: “Площадь Виктория в Афинах”

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