Dimitriou Gounari Street

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Dimitris Gounaris Street (Greek: Odos Dimitris Gounaris), is a Patras street running from Othonos-Amalias Avenue east to the square and Kalavryton Street. The Street is named after Dimitrios Gounaris Its total length is approximately 2 km. The street contains two lanes, four from Othonos-Amalias to Kanaris Street. The westbound lanes is a part of the GR-33 and was used until the opening of the highway by the Glafkos river in 1995.

Farmlands still covers the intersection with olive groves, fruits and vegetables and other crops, while the farmlands south of the street had transformed into residential buildings and complexes, farmlands still exists. A few houses lies within the street as well as by the end of the street.

1 Neighbourhoods
2 Traffic
3 History
4 Intersections
5 See also

[edit] Neighbourhoods

Tsivdi, south
Psilalonia, south

[edit] Traffic

The street is one of the most used in the city. It has been the national road linking Patras and Tripoli and later the GR-33.

[edit] History

The street was paved in mid to late-19th century. Neoclassical buildings were built up to Korai Street in the 1900s and later near Kalavryton Street in the 1950s. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the street was for the first time lined and added the first traffic lights in the Peloponnese. Later on, four to eight storey buildings were built in almost the entire street except for a couple in the eastern part. More traffic lights were added in the 1970s.