Last two floors of Athens hotel have been sealed

The last two floors and the rooftop bar of the Coco-Mat hotel in the Makrigianni area of central Athens that had been declared illegal for exceeding the height of 24 meters were sealed last week by the Ministry of Tourism, after the Court of Appeal rejected the suspension request submitted by the owner company. 

The demolition of the illegal part of the building has been undertaken by the Decentralized Administration of Attica, which will not have much time to put out a tender for its execution by May, as requested by the Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court.

The floors were sealed in adherence to a decision of the Council of State issued in 2019. The implementation of the decision has already been long delayed for several reasons: on the one hand, the technical complexity of the operation which entails removing a portion of a functional building...