Agia Sofia, Patras

Agia Sofia or Ayia Sofia (Greek: Αγία Σοφία meaning Saint Sophia) also with an a and i accented is a neighbourhood in the northcentral part of the city of Patras, 2.5 km direct and 3 km via road from the downtown core. Zarouchleika is linked with Antheias Street which is 2 km long and serves with Akti Dymaion and the GR-9/E55 (Patras - Pyrgos - Kyparissia) and Chalkidos Street. The OSE's SPAP line is 1.5 km to the west and its length is approximately 3 km and it is far as 200 m from the sea.

treets

*Agia Sofia Street - one way westbound on its entirety
*Agios Dionyssios Street
*Athinon Street
*Ethnou Makariou Street
*Kefallinis Street - one way northbound?
*Kilkis Street
*Konstantinopouleos Street - one way southbound
*Nafmachias Ellis Street (length: 700 m, one way eastbound)
*Pentou Pigadou Street (length: 700 m - one way eastbound)
*Zakynthou Street (length: 600 m, one way southbound)

Geography

Its geography are entirely residential. Agia Sofia features a square in the central part with the church of Saint Sophia. It also has a large part to the west. Its total area is approximately 3 km², its length is 1.5 km from north to south, its width is 1 km from east to west. The entire area are not flat.

History

Farmlands dominated the neighbourhood until the early and after World War II and the Greek Civil War, houses and buildings with neoclassical architecture began in the 1910s and stretched as far as the northern part near the 1950s. It was the city's northernmost urban limit until that time when it extended northward. Farm production at the time consisted of olive, citrus, cattle and rarely other crops. Three to eight storey buildings were added between the 1950s and the 1960s and as late as the 1980s to the north. The population slightly boomed until the 1980s when the neighbourhood ran out of space. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the street became one way and the GR-8/E55 and the E65 (Athens - Corinth - Patras passes through the entire street and had two branches, one being Konstantinoupoleos. The major flow of traffic lasted until the 1970s when a small bypass was rerouted at Agios Konstantinou (Agyias) Street 2 km north. Traffic outside of Patras reduced almost entirely to visitors, not for the port as the Patras Bypass opened 4 km northeast but the E55 and the E65 was also moved.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the Panachaiko mountains to the east, more to the south and southeast including Omplos, Varasova and Arakynthos to the west and northwest and more to the north.

Other

Agia Sofia has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a gymnasium (high school) and a few churches. It has also a several gas station in the east.