Temporary traffic arrangements will be made tomorrow, Friday 26.04.2024, due to the events during the delivery – collection of Olympic Flame in the context of the XXXIII Olympic Games “PARIS 2024”.
The arrangements will come into effect in the areas of the Municipalities of Megarea, Marathonos, Lavreotiki, Palaio Faliro, Kallithea and Athens, where the torch relay will end with a ceremony in Kallimarmaro.
According to the police, during the morning and afternoon hours tomorrow there will be a gradual and temporary stoppage of traffic along the following road sections, as follows:
• Municipality of Megareo (hours 08:00 – 09:00):
Minos – around the Central Square of Megara (Ceremony) – October 28 – Byzantium.
• Municipality of Marathon (hours 09:45-11:45):
Marathon Lake – near Platia Dim. Papastamou – around Heroes’ Square – Marathon Street – Dimokratis – Marathon Road Start (Ceremony) – Marathon Street (Nea Makri).
• Municipality of Lavreotiki (12:10-13:30):
E.O. Rafina-Lauriou (park) – Kokori Panagioti – Cultural Center of Lavrio – Agia Paraskevi – Kountourioti – Souniou Street – Souniou Archaeological Site (Ceremony).
• Municipality of Palaio Faliro (hours 14:15-14:40):
Posidonos St. – around EUGENIDIOU IDRIMATOS – Iasonos – Amphitheas St.
• Municipality of Kallithea (hours 14:40-15:50):
Katsoni Street – Doirani – Evrypidou – STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION CULTURAL CENTER (Ceremony) – Syggrou Street.
• Municipality of Athens (15:50 – 18:30):
Syngrou St. – Amalia St. – around Syntagma Square – Mitropoleos – Ermou – Athena – around Omonia Square – Stadium – Amerikas – Panepistium – Patision (October 28th) – Alexandra St. – Hippokratous – Akadimias St. – Vas. Sophia – Herodos Atticus – Kallimarmaro (Delivery Ceremony).
The Police appeals to the drivers of vehicles to avoid driving and stopping and parking their vehicles along the mentioned routes of the Olympic Torch Relay and to follow the signals of the traffic controllers.
As part of the Olympic Flame handover ceremony, on Friday, April 26, the tenor Babis Velissarios will perform at the Kallimarmaro Panathenaic Stadium “Olympic”in poetry of Pindar in performance Giorgos Heimonas, set to music by Dimitris Papadimitriou, accompanied by the ERT orchestra and choir. The work “Olympionikos” will be conducted by the composer himself.
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