Wallpaper* City Guide Athens
The Fast-Track Guide for the Smart Traveller
Wallpaper*
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Price: €12.95
Your passport to global style, Wallpaper* City Guides present an insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Under slick Pantone covers, these pocket-sized travel bibles unearth the hippest nightlife, the buzziest hotels, the coolest retail, the most influential art galleries and cultural spaces, the best in local design and the contemporary architecture that defines a city.
Perfectly sized for travel, discreet and easy to use, so you don't feel like a tourist, these books are ideal for either extended breaks or business trips. They are rigorously researched, and curated by an extensive network of experts, from in-house editors to in-the-know local correspondents. The series now covers more than 100 dynamic destinations.
Published March 2020
SPECIFICATIONS:
Format: Paperback
Size: 160 x 108 mm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in)
Pages: 128 pp
Illustrations: 100 illustrations
ISBN: 9781838660420
Wallpaper* City Guides are compiled by the magazine’s travel experts, both by in-house editors, and correspondents who actually live in the highlighted cities, providing up-to-the-minute information.
"Like asking an unnervingly handsome, impossibly intelligent local where they hang out."—Mr Hyde (Shortlist)
"For fashionistas, hipsters, architects and anyone who wouldn't be caught dead where the tourists go."—Alicia Miller, Sunday Times Travel
"Ultra-stylish."—Time Magazine
"Sophisticated."—The New York Times
"Attractive and well-researched."—USA Today
"Packed with insider info on the world's coolest hotels, restaurants and attractions."—Vogue
"This pocket-sized guide doesn't sacrifice substance for style."—The Independent
"For discerning jet-setters... The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)
From the introduction:
"Few capitals are as loaded with history as Athens, and the remains of the ancient city-state rise up amid today’s rather chaotic urban environment. But while it may appear blighted by development, there are, in among the crumbling graffiti-daubed apartment blocks, appealing neoclassical structures, delightful detail in the marble staircases and wrought-iron doors dating from the 1920s and 1930s, and highly accomplished modernist buildings. It’s a dense and unsystematic but glorious mix of old and new, east and west; a site of constructions, reconstructions, renovations and innovations. Athens clings to its past but it is also increasingly dynamic – witness the art and foodie hotspots in reborn Exarcheia and Kerameikos – a restless, sometimes tiring, constantly intriguing city..."
"Like asking an unnervingly handsome, impossibly intelligent local where they hang out."—Mr Hyde (Shortlist)
"The small but perfectly formed guides have become iconic."—1843 (The Economist lifestyle magazine)
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