Stadiou Street

The center of Athens will be mostly closed to traffic on Wednesday (May 1) due to announced rallies related to Labor Day.

Restrictions will be implemented gradually as o 9.30 a.m. in the streets around Propylea on Panepistimiou Street, Omonia Square, Syntagma Square, and roads leading to and from Panepistimiou and Stadiou Streets.

Streets in downtown Athens will be closed to traffic on March 25 due to the school and military parades that will be held to celebrate Greece's Independence Day.

No traffic will be allowed on Vassilisis Sofias, Amalias, and Georgiou A Avenues, as well as Herodou Attikou, Panepistimiou, Stadiou, Filellinon, and Akadimias streets.

Traffic restrictions will be introduced in the Greek capital on Sunday (March 10) for the Athena Half Marathon race and related events.

Police said the restrictions will apply from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include parking and waiting cars at the affected roads.

The historic building of the Arsakeion, located between Panepistimiou and Stadiou streets, needs extensive maintenance - The cost is estimated at 13.2 million euros - It will be housed in two neighbouring buildings

Anti-terrorism police are investigating a bomb explosion near the Labor Ministry in downtown Stadiou Street in Athens that caused material damage to the building.

Police and firefighters had cordoned off the area when the device went off at 1.29 a.m.

The acceleration of the process of determining the minimum salary, in order for the increase to be implemented earlier and to support employees in practice, will be one the first interventions by the new Minister of Labor, Domna Michailidou, as she tells Kathimerini.

One of the big open questions about the future of Athens is whether and to what extent the disjointed investment plans in the city center will succeed. And to what extent their added value will contribute to the sought-after improvement of the urban environment.

The Commercial Triangle of Athens is defined as the central area of the Municipality of Athens, flanked by Stadiou, Mitropoleos and Athinas streets, with the vertices of the imaginary "triangle" being Syntagma, Monastiraki and Omonia squares. In addition, it includes the squares of Klathmonos and Kolokotronis on Stadiou, as well as Kotzias Square on Athinas.

Every time a new building is unveiled in Athens, usually following a reconstruction, I wait anxiously to see the facade. The scale model, when it exists, may suggest the result but it does not show the quality of the materials, nor the integration of the new building into the surrounding environment. As a rule, the impression is disappointing.

The recently unveiled eco-friendly Eurobank building on central Stadiou and Omirou streets opposite the Old Parliament calls to mind the historical layers of Athens as the same plot featured earlier notable structures.