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Anafiotika is the cluster of small houses built on the slopes of the Acropolis above the Plaka. It's like being on a Greek Island. It's named Anafiotika because the original inhabitants were stone masons who came from the island of Anafi to build Athens in the mid 19th century. Just continue up the steps between Kouklis and the Byzantine church of St Nicholas next to it. You can wander around the small streets and if you continue to your right (facing the acropolis) you can walk along the road that overlooks the city and leads to the entrance for Greece's most famous archaeological site and historic landmark, the Acropolis . If you continue walking past the entrance of the Acropolis and take a right when you get to the new pedestrial street Apostolou Pavlou street you will end up in Thission or you can continue on and take a right on Ermou and you are back in Monastiraki. (You can also get to Monastiraki by cutting through the Agora using the entrance next to the rock of Areopagos just below the entrance to the Acropolis.)   If you take a left instead you will be on the same street but called Dionissou Aeropagitou end up in Makrianni where you can take a left on Byronos street and find yourself right back in the heart of the Plaka again. Byron will take you past the Dirty Corner, a hangout for poets and musicians in bygone days, right in front of the Monument of Lysacratus. Believe it or not had the mounument not been property of the Capucian Monastery which used to stand here, Lord Elgin would have taken the monument apart and taken it back to England with the Parthenon Marbles and you would have to go to the British Museum to see it.