Patission Street


Patision Street is one of the major streets in central Athens, Greece. Though it is known as Patision, its name for its stretch between Panepistimiou Street and Amerikis Square, was changed to 28 October Street, commemorating the day in 1940 that the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas refused the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum that Greece submit to Italian control, thus starting the Greco-Italian War.
Patision Street connects the area known as Patisia with Omonoia Square in the center of Athens. It is crowded by bus and trolley bus lines, which connect the city center with Kypseli,, Patisia, Nea Filadelfeia,, Marousi and Galatsi. It is a southbound one-way route with a northbound bus lane until it meets Marnis street, and it has three lanes per direction until Amerikis Square.

History

  • The landforming of the road began in 1841 and was based on pre-existing rural roads.
  • During King Otto's reign, the road was often honored by the royal couple.
  • In the 1870s, there was a small village named Patisia, which was included in the city of Athens and distinguished in Upper and Lower Patissia.
  • In the 1880s, there walked the horsemen of the newly created, by Efstratios Rallis, "Philippos Company".
  • On 23 April 1882 was launched the horse-powered tram from Patission to Syntagma.
  • In the 20th century, new neoclassical, art-deco and modernist buildings were built: Livieratos Palace, G. Isaia.
  • In 1903,, in an open-air theater opposite the Archaeological Museum, demonstrated his muscular power with various improvised exercises.
  • Patission was planted in 1908 with the first official division of the city of Athens – following the study of Athanasios Georgiadis – connecting Patisia with Omonia Square in the center of Athens. Then the first electric trams arrived.
  • In Chaetia, next to Alaska, on Sunday, 20 September 1942, the small ΠΕΑΝ resistance group organized a mass sabotage in the building of the Greek Nazi organization ESPO that recruited young people from Greece for Wehrmacht.
  • During December 1944, the General Security building was blown up in the corner of Patission and Stournari street, by the forces of ELAS.
  • In 1946, after the Occupation, it was renamed 28 October to celebrate the national anniversary of liberation.
  • On 17 November 1973, the Athens Polytechnic Uprising took place.
  • On 18 December 1980, the Minion Mall was wrapped in flames.

Notable buildings on Patission Street

Intersections