Apartment for sale in Rigillis Athens

About this property

Apartment for sale in Rigillis Athens. In one of the most expensive areas of Athens if not the most expensive, the area where all the famous persons, the elite of Greece is staying, on an elevated ground floor, there is a 2 bedroom apartment of 81m², with 3 bathrooms. Rigillis street is a truly unique and sought-after area of Athens. This area combined with important names and people of Greece, great politicians and buildings from the years of Anastasios Metaxas, one of the basic representatives of Neoclassicism which allows the history and sense of luxury to be diffused in the atmosphere of this area.

When entering this prestigious apartment, you will first find a living room of around 30m², from there and on your right a sliding door leads you to the study area of around 8m². From the study area another door leads you to a capacious bedroom of 15m², suited with its own private en suite shower. The bedroom has a second door that leads to a hallway, which on the left side has a water closet, and right across it has a comfortable kitchen. Moving on from the kitchen you get to a staircase which takes you down, on the same level with the street.

This level consists of a small service room with its own water closet fitted with a shower. From the service room there is a second entrance to and out of the house. Outside the apartment you will also find a small storage room of about 2m². The building is also armed with a retreat.

All the floors are made out of actual wood and it is equipped with all the furniture. In Rigillis street the music school, that was once a Palace, and later on the Presidential Hall, takes us all the way back to Herod the Atticus, the son of a very wealthy Athenian that lived from 103 until 179 AD. Herod a very educated person preferred the Roman type of living and that way he got married to a Roman, named Rigilla, who unfortunately died not long after their marriage. Herod mourned his wife’s death, giving her name to the music school that was constructed in her memory, “Rigillis Music School” but later on this same building was named after him “Music School of Herodus Atticus”, putting her name and memory in danger of being forgotten, when in 1884 the city council decided to name the street giving Rigillis name to a street and eventually to a whole area.

That way, her name has lasted through the years but the story has not.

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