New day for Athens cinemas

Old-style cinemas of the type we had before the dominance of multiplexes are returning to the center of Athens.

In the next few years, and as long as all the business plans are implemented, both the Apollon and the Attikon cinema in Stadiou Street will reopen, while the Cine Ideal in Panepistimiou Street is expected to be drastically upgraded, and the Astor will regain its glory.

The touristic as well as commercial recovery of the capital's center in recent years is now being complemented by the return of large entertainment venues. While the upgrade of the Ideal is taken to some extent for granted, after the relevant assurances given by the Mitsis hotel group, which leased the historic building that houses it, the resumption of the Apollon and Attikon cinemas is news.

The two historic theaters, which stopped operating 10 years ago when a large part of the...