The Old City at the Foot of the Sacred Rock
Plaka and Monastiraki form the oldest continuously inhabited neighbourhood in Europe — 2,500 years of occupation compressed into a square kilometre of neoclassical houses, Byzantine churches, Roman ruins, and Ottoman traces. FFGR Greece arranges private guided walks through both districts: the Tower of the Winds (1st century BC), the Library of Hadrian, the Stoa of Attalos, the Flea Market of Monastiraki on Sunday morning, and the private courtyard tavernas that have been serving local families since the 1960s.