- Athinas Street
Athinas Street (Greek: Οδός Αθηνάς) is a street in downtown
Athens inGreece . It is named afterAthena , thegoddess ofwisdom . The street runs fromErmou Street up north toOmonoia Square . Its total length is nearly 1 km of which 80 m is a walkway since 1999. Until 1999, it used to accessed with Omonoia Square, not motorists can now access viaLykourgos Street eastward for Aiolou and28 Oktovriou (Patissi) Street and other streets. North of Lykourgos is a pedestrian walkway. It has two lanes of which the edges are used for parking.Famous buildings includes the
Athens City Hall on the west side and office towers northward. The Modern Agora is east of Athinas Street. The famousKotzia Square lies to the east as well asKaramanou Square eastward. Shops and residential buildings lies to the south with neo-classical buildings. The rest of the architecture except for the city hall and square are modernistic. For the entire distance, theISAP Green Line runs underneath the street.In June, 2008, the mayoir of Athens, Nikitas Kaklamanis, began work to have the street pedestrianised. The street will be closed to most traffic and emphasis will be given to making it one of Athens' greenest streets.
History
The road was first paved in the late-19th century. Modernistic buildings were added in the 1950s to the north and later, street lights and traffic lights were posted at the used intersections including Ermou, Evrypidou, Sofokleous and Lykourgos. In the 1990s, smaller lampposts were posted and the northern section along with Omonoia was under reconstruction and a section became a walkway, pedestrian traffic lights were added on the Omonoia having full access to the
Attiko Metro 'sOmonoia station .Intersections
In order from south to north
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Ermou Street
*Agiis Eirinis Street - east
*Voreou Street - east
*Protogenous Street - west
*Vyssis Street - east
*Pallados Street - west
*Vlachava Street - east
*Evrypidou Street
*Aristogenous Street
*Armodiou Street
*Sofokleous Street
*Kratinou Street - east
*Efpolidos Street - east
*Lykourgos Street - east
*Omonoia Square ee also
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List of main streets in Athens
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