Visit the outstanding Benaki Museum, housed in an
elegant neoclassical mansion and travel through the millennia of Greek
History starting from the depths of prehistory to the 20th century.
Ancient artefacts, gold jewellery of various periods,
Byzantine icons, festival and bridal costumes, embroideries, paintings,
wood-carved furniture, musical instruments reveal the rich past of
Greece in Antiquity, in Byzantium, during the Foreign Occupation and
in Recent Times.
Enjoy the view from the plant-filled terrace of
the coffee shop found on the second storey of the building.
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