November is when runners take over the city, and the Authentic Marathon weekend includes a kids' race that finishes inside the marble Panathenaic Stadium. Indoors, the month brings a family festival, hands-on workshops, an opera made for kids and the first Christmas villages and shows of the season. Here's what we checked, from the kids' race to the first Christmas village.
The kids' race of the Athens Authentic Marathon: a 1,200-meter road run along Vasilissis Sofias Avenue and Irodou Attikou Street that finishes at the Panathenaic Stadium. Children start in waves by school grade, so each one runs with kids from their own year.
Parents don't run alongside. Kids gather at the start, and families walk ahead to the stadium to collect them after the finish.
KIDOT is a children's festival in Gazi, held at the old OSY depot on the corner of Ermou and Pireos.
It suits families who want a full day out, with the option of a second day if the kids want to go back.
A hands-on workshop at Tetragono art space in Agia Paraskevi where kids build a Mycenaean megaron, the palace hall of ancient Mycenae.
It suits school-age kids who are curious about ancient Greece and like making things with their hands more than listening to a talk.
Blue blue blue is a short opera made for the very youngest, staged as part of the Maria Callas Museum's family program.
It suits toddlers rather than older kids used to full-length shows.
Christmas BOOM Village is a children's Christmas festival at Anassa City Events, the event space in Goudi.
The ticket shop files it under kids' festivals, so it suits families looking for a Christmas outing built around children rather than a seated show for adults.
A Christmas stage show where Mickey and his friends board a Christmas train. Kids sit in the audience at the Avlaia Theater in Pasalimani, Piraeus, and watch the familiar characters on stage.
It suits preschoolers and early primary kids who know Mickey and his friends. Older kids may find it young.
November is when runners take over the city, and the Authentic Marathon weekend includes a kids' race that finishes inside the marble Panathenaic Stadium. Indoors, the month brings a family festival, hands-on workshops, an opera made for kids and the first Christmas villages and shows of the season. Here's what we checked, from the kids' race to the first Christmas village.
The kids' race of the Athens Authentic Marathon: a 1,200-meter road run along Vasilissis Sofias Avenue and Irodou Attikou Street that finishes at the Panathenaic Stadium. Children start in waves by school grade, so each one runs with kids from their own year.
Parents don't run alongside. Kids gather at the start, and families walk ahead to the stadium to collect them after the finish.
KIDOT is a children's festival in Gazi, held at the old OSY depot on the corner of Ermou and Pireos.
It suits families who want a full day out, with the option of a second day if the kids want to go back.
A hands-on workshop at Tetragono art space in Agia Paraskevi where kids build a Mycenaean megaron, the palace hall of ancient Mycenae.
It suits school-age kids who are curious about ancient Greece and like making things with their hands more than listening to a talk.
Blue blue blue is a short opera made for the very youngest, staged as part of the Maria Callas Museum's family program.
It suits toddlers rather than older kids used to full-length shows.
Christmas BOOM Village is a children's Christmas festival at Anassa City Events, the event space in Goudi.
The ticket shop files it under kids' festivals, so it suits families looking for a Christmas outing built around children rather than a seated show for adults.
A Christmas stage show where Mickey and his friends board a Christmas train. Kids sit in the audience at the Avlaia Theater in Pasalimani, Piraeus, and watch the familiar characters on stage.
It suits preschoolers and early primary kids who know Mickey and his friends. Older kids may find it young.
