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  Athens (Greece) - MSN Encarta
Athens is often called the cradle of Western civilization for its momentous cultural achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries bc.
The major part of the city’s metro subway, Attiko Metro (Athens Metro), was completed in 2000 and serves the heart of Athens; extensions to residential districts are planned over the next few years.
The Athens Greek Orthodox Cathedral was constructed in a neo-Byzantine style in the 19th century using material from demolished medieval churches.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573173/Athens_(Greece).html   (1044 words)

  
 ATHENS - Greece
Public transport to Athens and the port of Piraeus is provided by express airport bus connections on a 24 h basis, ensuring efficient transport for air travelers and facilitating linkage to key tourist attractions.
Unlike most capital cities, Athens' history is not one of continuous expansion; it is one characterised by glory, followed by decline and near annihilation, and then resurgence in the 19th century, when it became capital of independent Greece.
The population of Athens virtually doubled overnight, necessitating the hasty erection of concrete apartment blocks to house the newcomers.
www.gto.gr /athens/athens/athens.html   (2654 words)

  
 Athens travel guide - Wikitravel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Athens (Αθήνα, Athína), [1] is the capital city of Greece with a metropolitan population of 3.7 million inhabitants.
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport is situated 27 km (17 miles) east of the city center, near the suburb of Spáta.
Athens is served by a network of diesel buses, natural gas buses and electric trolley buses run by the Athens Urban Transport Organisation.
wikitravel.org /en/Athens   (3256 words)

  
 ATHENS GUIDE. Information and advice on how to get around the Greek capitol by Aegean Thesaurus
It took 2000 years but Athens finally has a metro, even if there is nowhere you need to go with the new metro, it is worth visiting it and even taking a ride a few stops.
Athens can be brutally hot in the day but mornings and late afternoons are fine and the nights in the Plaka are wonderful if not a little crowded.
Athens comes alive during these months and there is nothing like a night out in the city.
www.greecetravel.com /aegean/athens_info.htm   (1788 words)

  
 Athens 21st Century - ATHENS METRO
Athens metro is a model metro that has been appreciated, praised and has been a source of inspiration for the biggest experts in the field.
The metro is therefore like an art salon under the city turning the journey around Athens into a unique and pleasurable experience, like nowhere else in the world.
The old line number 1 is controlled by ISAP and crosses the city from south to north, from the Pireaus port to the elegant suburb of Kifisià.
www.athens-today.com /e-metropolitana.htm   (626 words)

  
 Athens Metro, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Scott Wilson was commissioned by Attiko Metro AE to prepare the design and tender document for Athens Metro Lines 2 and 3 Extensions.
Athens metro is comprised of three lines: Line 1 was built in the 1920s and Lines 2 and 3 in the 1990s.
Attiko Metro, the metro operator is planning to enlarge the system further with extensions to Lines 2 and 3.
www.scottwilson.com /Default.aspx?page=8753   (188 words)

  
 Athens races to beat Olympics deadline International Railway Journal - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Metro extensions to Lines 2 and 3, together with a new 48km three-line light rail network, are among those schemes which are due to be finished virtually on the final deadline for the beginning of the Games.
Athens Metro will open a 1.3km northern extension of Line 2 from Sepolia to Aghios Antonios, and a 1.2km southern extension from Dafni to Panagoulis, as well as a vital 5.9km northern extension of Line 3 from Ethniki Amyna to Doukissis Plakentias.
Athens Metro is currently taking delivery of 14 750V dc six-car metro trains, plus seven six-car dual-voltage trains which will operate through-services to EV Airport via the suburban railway link.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BQQ/is_7_44/ai_n6131826   (815 words)

  
 Athens - World Travel Guide
Athens (Αθήνα, Athína) is the capital city of Greece with a metropolitan population of 3.7 million inhabitants.
The standard metro fare (as of January 2005) is €0.70 for trips between all stations expept the Airport.
Athens is served by a network of diesel buses and electric trolley buses run by the Athens Urban Transport Organisation.
www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Athens   (2334 words)

  
 Athens metro - Athens Info Guide
Five of the metro stations are located at the center of ancient Athens, in the shadow of the Acropolis.
The metro trains are clean, smooth and very fast and while waiting for your train, you can enjoy the piped-in classical music in the downtown metro stations.
The metro stations name comes from a protest which took place on 3 September 1843 when a group led by General Ioannis Makriyiannis sat in the Royal Palace, now the Parliament, and demanded from King Otto I to compose a constitution for Greece.
www.athensinfoguide.com /gettingaround.htm   (1250 words)

  
 Athens Metro
And not just any metro, the Athens metro has to be the most beautiful system in the world and should stay this way until the graffiti "artists" get a hold of it.
Every time they dug a new hole they would find a grave, or a wall or an urn or something and would have to put down their picks and shovels and call in the archaeologists who would do their digging with toothbrushes, which is a bit slower.
The stations were packed with people as were the trains and in fact on my way back from Rafina one day with George the Famous Taxi Driver, the heavy traffic of Athens suddenly stopped at Holargos, where the metro begins and it was smooth sailing all the way to the Attalos Hotel.
www.athensguide.com /newmetro.html   (830 words)

  
 athens metro, athens greece
Athens Metro opened for business in January 2000.Four extensions have been agreed, with work to commence after the end of the 2004 Olympic Games.
The original Athens Metro Line 1 (25.6km) from the port of Piraeus, through Athens centre and on north-eastwards to Kifissia, conveys 300,000 passengers a day.
These are just an example of the many important artworks that can be admired at the Metro stops, which have created small underground art museums in various parts of the city, forcing even commuters who would never consider going to an art gallery or museum to get a glimpse of what they have been missing.
www.vacation-athens.net /en/transportations/athens_metro.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Bechtel Corporation—Projects—Signature Projects—Athens Metro
Long before Athens won its bid for the 2004 Olympic Games, it was clear that the city needed a better way to move people around.
Athens built one of Europe’s first urban rail grids in 1869, but it could not keep up with the country’s swift urbanization.
By the 1970s, Athens had become almost as famous for its traffic congestion and pollution as for its Parthenon and bronze statue of Zeus.
www.bechtel.com /spathensmetro.htm   (553 words)

  
 bus stations athens greece
The Athens Metro system is a three-line system that covers the center of Athens and extends to its nearest suburbs.
Athens transport covers all Attica.In the center of Athens there are mostly 3 different means of transport : the blue buses the yellow trolleys and partly the Metro.
The bus system in Athens is best used to travel to areas outside of the capital while the trolley bus system is best for travel within the city.
www.vacation-athens.net /en/transportations/bus_stations.htm   (988 words)

  
 Athens METRO TV (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-4.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Finally completed in January 2004 in preparation for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games the Athens Metro is the largest and most complex public project to date in Greece and all of Europe.
This makes the Athens Metro the fastest and most reliable transport which contributes to energy saving, growth in the economy, environmental health and improves the image of Athens.
Metro stations showcase art created by Greek Artists, as well as house an exhibition of archaeological finds that were discovered during the construction of the Athens Metro.
hestiainternational.com.cob-web.org:8888 /athens_new.html   (222 words)

  
 Athens Metro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Athens Metro is the underground public transport system of Athens, Greece, constructed by the Attiko Metro company (Αττικό Μετρό, literally 'Attican metro') and the ISAP (Ilektrikoi Sidirodromoi Athinon-Pireos) company (Ηλεκτρικοί Σιδηρόδρομοι Αθηνών-Πειραιώς "Athens - Piraeus Electric Railways").The Athens Metro is one of the most impressive underground Mass Transit systems in the world.
All three Metro lines connect with Proastiakos, the Athens Suburban Railway and the tram system.
Exhibition of archaeological finds that came to light during the construction of the project displayed at Metro station Syntagma, Athens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athens_Metro   (741 words)

  
 UrbanRail.Net > Europe > Greece > ATHENS - ATHINAI Metro
A basic question asked about Athens metro is how the construction of such a large project would not affect the city's vivid historic nature, as it is taking place in the most interesting locations of classical times.
In fact, building the metro, offered a unique chance to bring to light a multitude of archaeological treasures and promote the research over the form and features of the city throughout the centuries.
Metro was making news all throughout October 1997, when viewers experienced, during a regular live transmision, the unexpected disappearing of a news-stand into the ground.
de.geocities.com /m_pix4/athens/athens.htm   (2050 words)

  
 Athens Greece Hotels – Athens travel Guide, athens city map, vacation & honeymoon packages for Athens and Greek ...
Athens Greece Hotels – Athens travel Guide, athens city map, vacation and honeymoon packages for Athens and Greek islands, street map of Athens, Athens airport, Athens sightseeing, cheap flights to Athens, travel and tourist information, Athens pictures.
Inhabited for more than 7000 years, Athens is considered to be the birthplace (cradle) of modern civilization.
Recent excavation work for the Metro has unveiled the true magnitude of the antiquities lying beneath attic soil, upon which modern-day Athens- a city of 4.000.000 seemingly sharing nothing with its glorious past - lives and breathes amidst chaotic traffic, noise and pollution...
www.athens-greece.us   (137 words)

  
 Urban Transport Technology - Athens Metro Project - new metro system - Greece
The total carrying capacity of Attiko Metro is additional to the 350,000 passengers carried daily by the existing Athens-Pireas Electric Railway (ISAP) line, which connects Pireas with Omonia and Kifissia.
The Contractor was Olympic Metro, a consortium of 22 Greek, German and French companies that are working together to construct the project under a fixed-price turnkey contract.
The inauguration ceremony for the Athens Metro extension.
www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/athens   (709 words)

  
 Athens : Planning a Trip : Getting Around | Frommers.com
Metro and bus tickets are not interchangeable but may be soon.
Even if you do not use the Metro to get around Athens (the day pass is an excellent value), you may want to take it from Omonia or Monastiraki to Piraeus to catch a boat to the islands.
Fortunately, taxis are inexpensive in Athens, and most drivers are honest men trying to wrest a living by maneuvering through the city's endemic gridlock.
www.frommers.com /destinations/athens/0044020156.html   (1731 words)

  
 Athens Metro Infrastructure Sharing
Athens metro may be extended to share track with the suburban railway, as in London.
It is proposed that services on one line of the Athens Metro also be extended to the airport, by means of a new connection to the OSE line, and utilising negotiated running rights over that line.
Since Athens Metro has no previous experience of Track Access Agreements for the use of shared infrastructure, it is examining the types of arrangements which are in place elsewhere in the world for the use of shared infrastructure by another operator.
www.railcons.com /athensmetro.shtml   (251 words)

  
 Athens greece transportation, Athens subway, metro map
Public transport is provided by express airport bus connections with Athens center and the port of Piraeus on a 24 h basis, ensuring efficient transport of air travelers and facilitating linkage to key tourist attractions.
There are about 15 radio taxi companies in Athens; as their phone numbers often change, it's worth checking the daily listing in "Your Guide" in the Athens News.
Fortunately, Athens has created pedestrian zones in sections of the Commercial Triangle (the area bounded by Omonia, Syntagma, and Monastiraki squares), the Plaka, and Kolonaki, making strolling, window-shopping, and sightseeing infinitely more pleasant.
www.travelinfo.gr /athens/transportation.htm   (453 words)

  
 UrbanRail.Net > Europe > Greece > ATHENS - ATHINA Metro
The idea for a metro was first perceived in the 1950s, and the plans called for an underground line starting from the main Athens railway station (Larissa Station) to Syntagma, where it would fork into two branches, one to Faliro and Glyfada and the other to Ambelokipi.
Increasing traffic and pollution problems led, in the 1980s, to the decision to eventually proceed with the building of a new Metro for Athens.
A vast number of boreholes were performed prior and during the construction period drawing valuable conclusions over the geophysical and geotectonical features of the subsoil and the presence of water.
www.urbanrail.net /eu/ath/athens.htm   (2022 words)

  
 Transportation in Athens
This beautiful new airport is about 20 miles from the city center, and for your stay in Athens a car is not needed.
There are a variety of options for getting into the city without a car and they are all located at the Arrival Level, with the exception of the train/metro, whose entrance is at the Departures Level (opposite entrances 1 and 2).
The E95 is the Athens Airport Express to Syntagma Square.
www.travelswithfriends.com /Sights_Athens_Arrival.htm   (706 words)

  
 Athens Metro News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
For some football fans, gameday in Athens means wearing your best: pearls and bright red pants.For others, it's time for the paint brushes.
She was shot, and no one knows "whodunnit." Who Shot Grandma Entertainment is counting on the Athens community to help them find the culprit.
Story updated at 10:30 PM on Monday, October 16, 2006 University of Georgia police on Monday said they were investigating a student's report she was raped on Thursday, and Athens-Clarke police are investigating...
www.topix.net /metro/athens-ga?scoring=d   (659 words)

  
 Athens' Attico Metro
Athens, the capital of Greece and one of Europe’s oldest, continually inhabited cities, is getting ready to host its second Olympic Games in 2004.
Increasingly they are making the Attico Metro a showcase of contemporary Greek art, compelling commuters to be exposed to art that they might not have seen unless they were members of the art world and participate in critical dialogues about their country and its art.
He documented and commented on the unchecked urbanization and packaging of Athens for mass tourism, using “humanoids” – pared-down symbols of urban dwellers – as his main instrument of commentary on the lost natural environment.
www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/JUL2001/Athens_Metro.htm   (659 words)

  
 Subways and Light Rail in Greece: Athens
by Tram S.A., a subsidiary of Attiko Metro.
Athens is also home to the 210 m.
These units are part of the Peloponnesian narrow gauge lines that serve Athens, Piraeus,Chalkida on the island of Euboe, and points beyond.
www.subways.net /greece/athens.htm   (315 words)

  
 ATHENS, Greece
DISCOVER ATHENS with our virtual tours of the Acropolis, the Plaka, Kerameikos Cemetary, Koloniki and Lykavittos Hill, the National Gardens of Athens, Omania Square, Syntagma Square and the nearby Port of Piraeus and resort area of Lake Vouliagmeni.
Using Athens as your base, you can take excursions to the archaeological sites of Mainland Greece, private taxi tours, or a one day 3 island cruise of the Argo Saronic gulf.
In busy Athens, there is lots of open space and wildlife around the Acropolis and most of it is free and full of ancient ruins.
www.magicaljourneys.com /Athens/index.html   (552 words)

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