Stadiou street of Athens

Stadiou Street is a historic street in the centre of Athens. It connects Omonia Square with Syntagma Square, with a northwest-southeast direction. It was originally a stream which was covered and reconstructed in the early to mid-19th century. The road was subsequently paved. Carriages and trolleys began using the road in the 20th century and the road was then two-way. The name of the street comes from the Panathenaic Stadium, which leads behind the Old Palace and the National Garden. Old two- and three-storey neoclassical buildings were located on this street. After the Civil War the street became one-way with three lanes and parking lots. In the late 1950s and 1960s several buildings were demolished and replaced by eight- and ten-storey new buildings, mostly office buildings, although several neoclassical buildings survived. It is mainly a commercial street, with luxury shops located near Syntagma Square, the more popular ones being near Omonia Square. Pictured: Stadiou Street in Athens in 1890. ©Municipal Photography Museum of Kalamaria ‘Christos Kalemkeris’.