Pagrati includes the Ilissos river valley and extends to the south as far as the Panathinaic Stadium and the First Cemetery of Athens.

Poets, novelists, writers, painters, composers, musicians made Pangrati one of the most important artistic hubs of Athens.

One of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate, Giorgos Seferis lived in Pangrati.

Other artists who lived in Pangrati include Nikiforos Vrettakos, Yiannis Moralis, Kostas Varnalis, Dimitris Psathas and many others.

Maria Callas, the famous soprano, has also studied in the Athens Conservatoire, which lies within Pangrati, just next to the Cult of Hercules Pankrates, directly beneath the Harry S. Truman statue in Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue.

The Goulandris Museum hosts a world class collection of works by Picasso, Chagall, Van Gogh, Gauguin, El Greco, Degas, Klee, Kandinsky, Rodin, Cézanne, Monet, Miró, Giacometti, Pollock, Bacon and others as well as by prominent Greek artists including George Bouzianis, Yannis Tsarouchis, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika, Yannis Moralis and Michalis Tombos.