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For Athenians, Athenians, and all visitors to the city, Omonia Square is back to life tonight, which is coming to life again, beautifying and enhancing the entire area.
“The emblematic landmark of the capital is no longer a gray traffic junction, but a beautiful meeting point, as it happened decades ago, part of the city’s Great Promenade that will be created in the next period by the Municipality of Athens,” he said. a statement from the Municipality of Athens.
The Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakogiannis, published on social media a personal story about the historic square and an impressive timelapse video from the start of the renovation works until today.
you will find. “In the late 1950s, my father, for the first time, obtained the KTEL for Athens. With a checkered suitcase in hand, a registered trademark of a province, after 7.5 hours, arrives in Omonia. faces a noisy hive of people. We were kids, but I remember the description: street vendors advertised their wares, from tsatsares and transistors to buns and samali. The kiosks were so full of things that they were afraid of collapse. People were going to work and many young people with the same checkered suitcase were looking for their way. In the center of the square, a large fountain cooled the atmosphere and sometimes your face. Turn the square at least 30 times. But where he stood and spent two hours was in the escalator. He raised and lowered them, trying to figure out what to write to his father, the pope, to describe them. He felt, he told us, decades later, that once he got here, everything was possible. Today, where everything is changing and the The city’s main square has many semantics, one thing remains the same: Omonia’s optimism. And its symbolic dimension in response to inequality. This square connects yesterday with today and tomorrow, Athens falls with superior. Memory and dream. And as such, we are restored, an eternal symbol of hope. #timelapse @alexmaragos https://youtu.be/sHJY4EoUUzg
May 14, 2020 at 6:44 a.m. PDT
The beautiful huge fountain that will light up tonight is one of the largest in volume of water in all of Europe: it has a diameter of 30 meters, its main jet shakes the water to a height of 20 meters and has a total of 188 beams of water and 177 underwater lighthouses. Create a party of light and color.
A lawn was planted around the fountain and the rest of the plaza, with a total area of 4.5 acres, was covered with environmentally friendly materials that reduce temperature, especially during the summer months.
George Zongolopoulos’ great sculptural sculpture also works again after many years.
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