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available at theatre box offices, queues at performances can be very long or may be sold
out. Half-price student discounts (with ID) for most performances.
European Jazz Festival
MUSIC FESTIVAL
(
www.cityofathens.gr
;
late May-early Jun)
Run by the City of Athens, which also organises
other free summer concerts and dance performances across the city, such as the
Interna-
tional Dance Festival
.
Rockwave Festival
MUSIC FESTIVAL
( 210 882 0426;
www.rockwavefestival.gr
;
Jun-Jul)
Annual international rock show held
at Terra Vibe, a parkland venue on the outskirts of Athens in Malakassa. Special buses
from town, and cheap camping.
August Moon Festival
PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
Every August on the night of the full moon, musical performances are held at key histor-
ic venues, including the Acropolis, the Roman Agora and other sites around Greece.
Athens International Film Festival
FILM FESTIVAL
(
210 606 1413;
www.aiff.gr
;
Sep)
Features retrospectives, premieres and international
art films and documentaries.
Sleeping
Athens has a full range of options, though service is not always up to expectations. Plaka
is most popular with travellers. High-end hotels cluster around Syntagma. Some excel-
lent smaller hotels dot the quiet neighbourhoods of Makrygianni and Koukaki. Around
Omonia some hotels have been upgraded, but there is still a general seediness (think
drugs and prostitution), especially at night.
Book ahead in July and August. Prices quoted are for high season; get considerable
discounts in low season, for longer stays and online. No-smoking rules are often laxly
enforced, if at all.
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Syntagma & Plaka
Hotel Adonis
HOTEL $
