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Panellinion Chess Coffee-House

City centre  •  ★ 4.5  •  $

Time seems to have stopped in this coffee-house of well over a century, where regulars nurse a Greek coffee and hunch over the chessboard set out on every table. The walls are lined with photos of famous players; strike up a game (Karpov once played here in 1992) and ask owner Yiannis for a plate of meze.

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16 Mavromichali St · 120+ years old · a chess set on every table

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