Hilton Athens

Hilton Athens
Hilton Athens
Hilton Athens Location within Greece
Hotel chain	Hilton Hotels & Resorts
General information
Type	Hotel
Address	46 Vassilissis Sofias Avenue
Town or city	Athens
Country	Greece
Coordinates	37°58′36″N 23°45′01″E / 37.976554°N 23.750257°E / 37.976554; 23.750257
Opened	April 1963
Owner	Hilton Worldwide
Other information
Number of rooms	506
Website
Official website

Hilton Athens is a hotel in Athens, Greece. It is on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue within the Hilton Area, near Syntagma Square, the Kolonaki neighbourhood, Pláka and other of central Athens’ main tourist attractions. The hotel stands opposite the National Gallery of Athens and Evangelismos station. The hotel has an on-site restaurant and bar which are also used as meeting places by local Athenians as well as visitors to the city. It has a spa and a 25m by 15m outdoor swimming pool.

The hotel officially opened on April 20th, 1963, as Athens' first international chain hotel. Conrad Hilton was present at the opening ceremony. Guests at the hotel have included Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, singer Frank Sinatra, director Ingmar Bergman and actor Anthony Quinn. Hilton Athens was the headquarters for the International Olympic Committee during the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2011 the organizing committee of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games also took the hotel as their base of operations. The hotel hosted Athens’ first contemporary art gallery, the Hilton Gallery, in cooperation with Marilena Liacopoulou. From 1968 until 1972 the Hilton Gallery was responsible for various historical exhibitions. Nowadays the hotel displays artworks and invests regularly in lobby exhibitions of artists from Greece and abroad.