Palaio Faliro
Read the open letter from 3 mayors regarding the refugee/migrant centers in their areas
The government has admitted its lack of plan for immigrants to Greece at a time when they are being carted back and forth from Idomeni to Athens without a plan. The mayors of four regions in Athens have joined their voices in an open letter against the government’s reported plan for a creation of a migrant camp at the former Elliniko airport.
The letter:
December 10, 2015
Govt plans to host refugees in stadiums
Within the following months, the refugees will be hosted at the stadium of former Athens International Airport at Elliniko aiming to protect them from the bad weather which is forecast for the following days.
Since last week, it is estimated that up to 2,000 refugees found a shelter at the Sport Venue and Stadium at Palaio Faliro.
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TripAdvisor presents Athens Poseidon Hotel with Excellence Award for 2015 (photos)
Athens Poseidon Hotel located on Poseidonos Avenue on the Athens seafront at Paleo Faliro was awarded the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award for 2015 following the accolades of its guests. The prestigious award is hard to come by as only 10% of businesses on TripAdvisor are privy to consistently brilliant traveler reviews.
Sex in the city of Athens: The red-light districts have moved (video)
Hookers and transvestites would line up around Syngrou Avenue or at the backstreets of the National Theater at Omonoia. They’d enter luxury cars and chide young rookies going on joy rides. Then, suddenly the pulsating streets around Panteio, began to empty. Shops shut down, and unemployment caused young men looking for paid thrills to diminish. Then there was all that bad press about HIV.
Old Hellenikon Airport to be turned into a dumpster!
Alt. Finance Minister Nadia Valavani issued a decision concerning the government’s plans for Hellenikon International Airport at the Agios Kosmas Seafront. Contrary to dreams for the 12-acred site to be turned into the biggest park in Europe, the airport will be used to serve the countries waste management needs.
The good-looking wives' club of Greek leftist ministers (photos)
The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) may lean more to the working class but that doesn't mean that they don't have their pulse in fashion.
Danae Stratou, the wife of Finance Minister Nikos Varoufakis
The lovely artist, described by a satirical program as looking like a "playboy bunny from the Eighties", is the most famous wife who has looks and money.
Police thwart kidnappers in Athens
A 45-year-old nightclub photographer was snatched off the street and dragged into a vehicle by unknown assailants outside his home in the southern Athenian suburb of Palaio Faliro in the early hours of Monday before being found later in the car in the neighborhood of Vyronas, near the capital?s center.
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Land prices in Attica are still sliding
By Nikos Roussanoglou
Prices for plots of land in Athens posted an average drop of 4.4 percent in the third quarter of the year on an annual basis, even though this part of the market had until recently been unaffected by the economic crisis due to the shortage in availability.
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Museums, sites around Attica to stay open for Sunday's full moon
Many of the Greek capitals museums and archaeological sites will be open to the public tomorrow night in celebration of the August full moon, the biggest of the year.
Man arrested on suspicion of conning elderly people
A 58-year-old man was arrested in Athens on Wednesday on suspicion of being part of a gang that had conned at least seven elderly residents in the suburbs of Nea Smyrni, Holargos and Palaio Faliro out of money since 2001.