4 Best Places to Shop in Monastiraki, Athens

Athens Remember Fashion

Monastiraki Fodor's choice
A concept store with cult status since it opened in the 1970s, this is where you'll find everything from the perfect rockstar outfit to S&M-style punk accessories and hand-painted T-shirts with bold messages. Created by fashion designer Dimitris Tsaounatos and now run by his son, the rebelliously-natured shop has everything from original, hand-made, as well as vintage clothes and accessories. Hollywood A-listers and music legends come here from around the world to get decked out in outfits that they know they won't find anywhere else.

Alekos Antiques

Monastiraki

This palaiopolio (junk dealer) is especially popular among collectors of old radio sets and vintage toys, and carries wonderfully quirky items such as mechanized piggy banks.

Center of Hellenic Tradition

Monastiraki

The center is an outlet for quality handicrafts—ceramics, weavings, sheep bells, wood carvings, prints, and old paintings. Take a break from shopping in the center's quiet and quaint I Oraia Ellas café to enjoy a salad or mezedes in clear view of the Parthenon. Upstairs is an art gallery hosting temporary exhibitions of Greek art.

Art Gallery
Mitropoleos 59, Athens, Attica, 10555, Greece
210-321–3023

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Old Market

Monastiraki

Old coins, from Greece and around the world, are for sale at this antiques shop, along with stamps, engravings, antique toys and radios, musical instruments, and medals.