By an irony of fate, a department store - the first in the capital in fact - the "complex of stores" of the Epirotian merchant Vassilis Exarchos that was built in the early 1880s in the tristrato of Themistokleos, Solomos and Sp. Trikoupis named the district that was to develop into the most unruly and "anti-trade" of Greece, if not of all of Europe!Exarchia is one of the oldest, middle-class and beautiful districts of Athens with architectural wealth and special cultural and political interest. But the Exarchia are also much more. It is an authentic, lively, young, bohemian, eccentric, alternative, multicultural, restless, multidimensional, unruly neighborhood.