Monastiraki flea market Traditional Geocache
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The Monastiraki flea market is the place to be on Sunday when it seems every Athenian is here either buying or selling. You have to get here early because after about 11am it becomes overcrowded. Much of the flea market is not really a flea market. It is a collection of small shops of which most of them are tourist shops. To locate the place where the cache is hidden is quite easy but the difficult will be, not to be spotted !!
The cache is placed at Monastiraki square area and it's a NANO magnetic Monastiraki is a really famous area down town Athens. Actually there is the biggest flea market of Athens. There you can find everything you can imagine (new and used/ really old stuff).The access is quite easy and fast. Near Monastiraki is the area of "Plaka", the Acropolis and the area of "Thiseon". In one day you can visit all these places and find some other nearby caches. There you can see and visit day at day hours, a Byzantine church, which is one of the oldest and less known churches in Athens, is dedicated to Panagia Pantanassa. It is celebrated on the 15th of August, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The church is referred to as Big Monastery in a post Byzantine sigillium of 1678 and it is thus named during these years. According to Orlandos, the church is dated to the 10th century. However, based on its masonry Sotiriou has dated it to the 7th – 8th century, while Wulff to the 8th – 9th century like all the barrel-vaulted basilicas of Athens. Xyngopoulos has dated the church to the 10th century, whereas Millet to the 11th – 12th century based on its capitals. You can see also a monument of the Turkish presence in Athens it is a mosque Fetiya. Located directly opposite the metro station. The mosque was built in the 15 th century to commemorate the visit to Athens husband of Roksolana - Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. Getting to Monastiraki is easy. You can come there using the metro and getting off at Monastiraki station. If you are coming from Syntagma you will be walking down "Mitropoleos" street, past the Cathedral and the square of shiny marble. There is also a small Byzantine church in the shadow of the cathedral that you should take a look at called Agios Eleftherios. If you are coming down "Athinas" str where the city market is, from the direction of Omonia, then if you keep the Acropolis in sight you will come right to the place. PLEASE, act wisely, so not to be spotted (which is the difficult part of the hunt). The FTF went to: GadgetCats !!!
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