Stadiou Street

Times are changing, increasingly fewer people are going to the cinemas, as all of us who still go have discovered. What can one do? It's a part of life.

The Ideal and Astor cinemas in downtown Athens cannot be regarded as historic cultural monuments, the Ministry of Culture said in an announcement on Thursday.

Municipal crews have removed graffiti and paint from Athens' Stadiou Street as part of a 20-day campaign to clean up the city center.

Work focused on removing slogans, tags and smudges that covered an area of about 3,300 square meters along the popular shopping street that branches out of Syntagma Square.

Cars will be banned from the historical center of Athens for three months from mid-June in order to provide more space to pedestrians in view of the need for physical distancing, according to a joint ministerial decision Friday.

Opposition SYRIZA on Wednesday snubbed an invitation from the center-right government for all political parties to attend the unveiling of a plaque commemorating three bank workers who died in a firebomb attack in downtown Athens 10 years ago.

Greece's Parliament on Tuesday observed on minute of silence in commemoration of three bank employees who were killed in a firebombing attack during an anti-austerity protest in downtown Athens on May 5, 2010.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and other officials on Tuesday marked the 10-year anniversary of the death of three bank employees in a firebomb attack during an anti-austerity riot in downtown Athens.

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni promised to restore a listed building in central Athens that was destroyed by fire on Friday morning.

The blaze at the neoclassical building on 43 Stadiou Street, which had been abandoned for years, ripped through the second floor, causing extended damage.

A fire broke out on Friday morning in an abandoned building in central Athens, the fire service said.

Media reports said the blaze started on the second floor of the neoclassical building located on 43 Stadiou Street.

Some of the reports claimed that two people have been evacuated.

The fire service said 20 men with eight vehicles were at the scene.

The reconstructed Omonia Square in central Athens will be delivered to the public by the end of next week, Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said on social media on Thursday.

"Very happy that Omonia square has entered the final stretch and will be delivered to the Athenians," he said