Parks

Twelve playgrounds in the Municipality of Athens will close for safety reasons as they lack an updated operating permit, following a decision of the city council on Wednesday.

The playgrounds will receive extensive renovation before they reopen to the public, which is expected to be in June for some of them.

As the climate crisis worsens and our country finds itself on the frontline, we need to look at what we are doing - as a state and as citizens - to change our behavior, to limit the damage we are causing the environment and to adapt to the consequences of our failure.

In an effort, years ago, to modernize the state and make it work better at all levels, important and critical responsibilities were assigned - and rightly so - to local government bodies. These responsibilities have to do with essential aspects of our daily lives, such as cleaning services and taking care of the public space (streets, squares, fountains).

The planning of the Municipality of Athens for free space in the neighborhoods of the city and the creation of green spaces everywhere, continues with the innovative "pocket parks", which are growing rapidly.

Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Monday that, as of 16 May, "it is certain" that the restrictions regarding the movement within localities will be eliminated, however, he mentioned that the movement between localities will be made only with certain restrictions, which are to be established. "In terms of the interior of the locality, it will be a movement without restrictions.

Amidst feverish preparations for the Piraeus mayor election in May, Mayor Yannis Moralis outlined the major public works in the Piraeus city centre that have been completed during his term in a post on his personal Facebook account wall.

A football goal fell over a 13-year-old child on a playground in Pazardzhik. The boy was admitted in the intensive ward of the District Hospital in Pazardzhik in an extremely severe condition. The incident occurred over the weekend, but no information has been provided so far by the relevant institutions.
 

A man suspected of shooting a seven-year-old girl playing in a playground in Istanbul last week was arrested on Aug. 28. 

The provincial directorate of Turkey’s Directorate for Nature Conservation and National Parks has initiated a formal process to recognize the Taşyaran Valley as a “nature park”

Bucharest is throbbing with life and in constant bustle, says Mihai 'Mita' Georgescu, the frontman of Bere Gratis band in an interview with AGERPRES as part of MY CITY BUCHAREST project.