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Patission Street. Coordinates: 38°0′9.94″N 23°44′2.8″E. Isaias mansion. Patision Street ( Greek: Οδός Πατησίων) is one of the major streets in central Athens, Greece.
Exarcheia is bordered on the east by Kolonaki and is framed by Patission Street, Panepistimiou Street and Alexandras Avenue. Exarcheia is known for being Athens' historical core of radical political and intellectual activism. [3]
During the reign of King Otto in the 19th century Patission street was a rural road which led to the villages of Upper and Lower Patissia. In 1841 the road as we see it now was formed and in 1882 there was a horse powered tram from Patissia to Syntagma Square. In 1908 the tram became electric.
English: Patission Street is one of the major streets in central Athens. Its formal name is 28th of October Street, commemorating the day in 1940 that the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas refused the Italian dictator Mussolini's ultimatum that Greece submit to Italian control, thus starting the Greco-Italian War.
Located in the heart of Athens, the National Archaeological Museum on Patission Street houses important artefacts from the Neolithic Era to the late Roman period. The Antikythera mechanism, Agamemnon’s death mask, the wall paintings of Thera, the Artemision Bronze, the Antikythera Ephebe, Nestor’s Cup, and the Marathon Boy are but a few of ...
A walk along Patission Avenue, the longest street of Athens, offers more than an exploration of one of the most diverse thoroughfares of the city. It’s a showroom stretch that exhibits one and a half centuries of history, architecture and culture. All you need to know is where to look.
The historical Patission Street campus in a postcard of 1900. The main facade of the Averof building today. In 1873 it moved to its new campus in Patission Street and was known as Metsovion Polytechnion (Metsovian Polytechnic) after the birthplace of the benefactors who financed construction of this campus.
