Greece’s Higher Court Approves Building Terms for Acropolis Area

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Photo Source: Visit Greece / Y Skoulas In efforts to protect the wider Acropolis area from illegal construction, Greece’s highest court approved this week a set of special terms and building restrictions to apply in and around the Makrygianni and Koukaki neighborhoods, the Environment Ministry announced. According to the approved draft Presidential Decree,

Small Enterprises in Athens’ Historic Center to Get Support

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Photo source: Municipality of Athens Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis pledged this week to support 111 small businesses operating in the city’s historic center with 2.3 million euros in funds. Bakoyannis said the program, part of the “Athens Business Green Toolkit” launched last summer by the municipality, offers subsidies for energy upgrades of infrastructure and equipment

Works on Athens Metro Line 4 Section 1 Underway

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Οne of the most important transport projects in Greece, the first section of Athens Metro Line 4, is underway aiming once completed to facilitate thousands of commuters each day. Works on the first section of the project linking Veikou Park (Alsos Veikou) with Goudi are set to begin in 2023. More specifically, the 15-stop, 13km […]

Athens Mayor: Panathinaikos Stadium and Votanikos Regeneration Ready to Start

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Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis presented the plans for the creation of the Panathinaikos Football Stadium A 40,000 seat football stadium for the historic Panathinaikos sports club, urban infrastructure upgrades, and the development of public spaces in the western Athens suburb of Votanikos are the priorities of a highly-anticipated overhaul to be carried out by the

Athens Metro Line 4 Gets €580m in Record EIB Support

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Athens metro construction site. Photo source: EIB The highly anticipated Line 4 of the Athens metro to contribute significantly to the decongestion of the city center will move ahead thanks to 580 million euros in new financing by the European Investment Bank (EIB). The EIB and Attiko Metro SA announced the news this week. The […]

Athens Municipality Joins Next Phase for City’s Metro Line 4

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Photo source: ametro.gr Athens Metro Line 4 entered a new phase this week after the Municipality of Athens announced that it would be proceeding with landscaping works after the completion of the project. The municipality and the Greek Environment Ministry signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on Monday which foresees among others planting 2,000 trees […]

Redevelopment of Panepistimiou Street in Athens Begins

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Redevelopment work recently began on busy Panepistimiou street as part of a major urban regeneration project aiming to increase free spaces in Athens and improve the quality of life for residents and visitors. Works are currently underway on the section of Panepistimiou street between Sina and Amerikis streets. According to the Municipality of Athens, the […]

Athens Kicks Off Holiday Season with Christmas Tree Lighting

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The City of Athens on Monday evening lit up a very impressive 19-meter tall Christmas tree at central Syntagma Square, marking the start of the holiday season in the Greek capital. The municipality’s Christmas tree features more than 60,000 colorful lights of a total length of 5km. It was transferred from Karpenisi to Athens and […]

‘Ministry Park’ Project to Free Up Space in Athens for Public Housing

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The Pyrkal facilities. An abandoned 353,480m2 area on Mt Hymettus in Athens that once hosted Pyrkal, an ammunition and explosives company, will be converted into a “ministry park” serving as the headquarters of nine ministries as well as the country’s assets company. Dubbed the “Andreas Lentakis Park”, the Pyrkal project involves the lease of 127 buildings with

Mayor: Athens Urban Regeneration Program Largest in Decades

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Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis. Photo source: @Olympia Forum An ongoing urban overhaul of Athens that includes the redevelopment of central Panepistimiou St and Syntagma Square, city park projects, pedestrian walkways, and city square and park cleaups, is the largest such program to take place in the Greek capital in the last decades, said Athens Mayor