ΑΝΑΦΙΟΤΙΚΑ / anna-fee-OH-ti-kah
I’ll eventually do an entry for all the neighborhoods that I think I’d go to, but Anafiotika was one we ended up in last year that I thought was pretty cool. It’s in between Plaka, the “historic” district on the eastern side of the Acropolis, and the Acropolis itself, and while it’s full of gorgeous white-clay buildings reminiscent of the islands, it’s definitively NOT touristic, and the residents do their level best to remind people that it’s primarily a residential neighborhood.
There aren’t really any restaurants or shops — just little cube-y houses that were built by imported workers some time in the early 1800s. Lots of steep stairs, lots of meandering skinny corridors. It’s fairly tiny too — and there are some spectacular views back over the city from a little park at the top.