Folk Art Museum of Acharnes

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Acharnes is a city of Attica, Greece. With 106,943 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality in East Attica. ()

Local name: Αχαρνές Αττικής Coordinates: 38°4'51"N, 23°44'8"E

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Liosion 6Acharnes 136 75 AtticaGreece

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+30 21 0246 2701

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Folk Art Museum of Acharnes – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hellenic Air Force Museum, Tourkovounia, Deste Foundation, Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum.

2.9 miNE
Museum, Military museum
Hellenic Air Force Museum, Athens
75 min walk • The Hellenic Air Force Museum was founded in 1986 and since 1992 has been located on Dekelia Air Base in Acharnes north of Athens. In opposition to the War Museum of Athens it displays air force history and is active in restoring and presenting old aircraft.
3.4 miS
Hill
Tourkovounia, Marousi
86 min walk • The Tourkovounia, also known as Lykovounia and in Antiquity called Anchesmos, is a hill range in Athens, Attica. The name has also been transferred to a neighbourhood in Central Athens and a neighbourhood in Keratsini.
3.1 miSE
Museum, Art museum
Deste Foundation, Athens
80 min walk • Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts foundation in Nea Ionia, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. Housing the art collection of Greek businessman Dakis Joannou, it organizes exhibitions with the collection and commissions new work by emerging and established international contemporary artists.
3.8 miE
Museum, Art museum, Specialty museum
Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum, Marousi
96 min walk • Υannis Tsarouchis Foundation Museum is an art museum in Marousi, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, dedicated to the famous Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis.
3.3 miS
Area
Nea Filadelfeia, Athens
84 min walk • Nea Filadelfeia is a city in Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 2.850 km².
3.4 miS
Area
Nea Ionia, Athens
86 min walk • Nea Ionia is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. It was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s as a part of the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey.
2.8 miSE
Area
Irakleio, Athens
71 min walk • Irakleio is a suburb in the northeastern part of the Attica agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region.
2.8 miSE
38°3'39"N • 23°46'47"E
Rockway, Athens
71 min walk • Climbing
~1310 ftN
Neighbourhood
Acharnae, Thrakomakedones
7 min walk • Acharnae or Acharnai was a deme of ancient Attica. It was part of the phyle Oineis. Acharnae, according to Thucydides, was the largest deme in Attica. In the fourth century BCE, 22 of the 500 members of the council came from Acharnae, more than from any other deme.
3.8 miSE
Arenas and stadiums, Sport venue, Sport
Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre, Marousi
97 min walk • The Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre is a complex at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, consisting of two outdoor pools and one indoor pool, that was built for the 1991 Mediterranean Games. It was refurbished and expanded for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
3.7 miS
Neighbourhood
Rizoupoli, Athens
94 min walk • Rizoupoli is a neighborhood of Nea Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, Greece. It is the northernmost neighborhood of municipality along with the small district Probonas.