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Clever street art in Athens, Greece.

We love this street art painting of a cute, Greek goddess in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.

Street art in Athens, Greece: “Define, Demilitarize, Deny” written in an original hand-painted style next to an image of a king-like face in the Psyrri neighborhood of the Greek capital.

There’s some cool street art on the side of this apartment building in Psyrri neighborhood, in Athens, Greece. The nabe is a mecca for artists.

Ghostly stencil street-art in downtown Athens, Greece.

Here’s a roller-shutter painted with a Japanese-style manga-like image of a cute, doe-eyed girl in Monastiraki, in Athens, Greece.

Stencil on a concrete-stucco building piller in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.

Sweet little collection of concert and club-event posters in downtown Athens, Greece.

We’re having a little trouble decoing the alphanumerics in this graffiti tag in central Athens, Greece. It looks like it could “2T” or “21.” In any case, we likey.

Bearded pink characters in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.

Colorful graffiti street art in a small parking lot between apartment buildings in Athen’s vibrant Psyrri neighborhood.

Athens, like many Greek urban areas, is a city full of stray dogs and cats, so it’s fitting that we stumble upon street art images of dogs, as well as some other cute, pet-like (but unidentifiable) creatures in old historical center of the capital.

Dope graff by Tsisa on a narrow side street in the Plaka neighborhood, directly below the south face of the Acropolis, in Athens.

We recently returned from Athens, Greece, where we surprised at how vibrant the street art scene in the Greek capital. From our informal survey walking the streets of the city, it can be argued that Athens’ street art rivals Barcelona, Spain, itself one of the most exciting cities in the world for street art. IN the series of images below, there’s a wonderfully colorful graffiti painting for LIFO on the side of a building near Monastiraki, a major shopping, cultural and lifestyle crossroads near the famed Acropolis. LIFO is the moniker of the artist and the name of a local weekly magazine a la Time Out.

Street art on a roller-shutter in the action-packed Psyri neighborhood of central Athens, Greece. There are heaps and heaps of street art in this nabe, as well as in the adjacent Gazi and Kerameikos districts of the ancient Greek capital..

Wicked street art in Athens, Greece, mate.