Korinthou Street

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Korinthou Street (Greek: Οδός Κορίνθου Odos Korinthou) is a major street in the city of Patras. It is named on the way to Corinth and ends near Agias Sofias Street in which another street name is applied in which the eastbound of the GR-8, GR-48, (first two are E65) and GR-5/E55 (actually begin 5 km further north) continue. The avenue begins at Eleftherios Venizelos nearly 500 m from Akti Dymaion or the GR-9/E55 (Patras-Pyrgos). The total length is 5 km and has three lanes in total of which one is now used for transit buses. Shops are within the street mainly in the central part as well as offices. Several other squares intersect with 28 Oktovriou (Karolou) Street The street is two-way from Eleftherios Venizelos to Papaflessa Streets and one way northbound for the rest of the street.

[edit] Intersections

• Eleftherios Venizelos Street
• Voreiou Ipirou Street
• Papaflessa Street
• Trion Navarchon Street (walkway section since the 1990s)
• Dimitris Gounaris Street
• Votsis Street
• Patreos Street
• Georgiou II Square (now no access to other streets west of the square) and runs in the middle of the street
• Agiou Nikolaou, two way eastward
• Kolokotronis Street
• Zaimis Street
• 28 Oktovriou (Karolou) Street
• Agias Sofias Street

[edit] History

The street was first paved when the city grew. It was first named in the 1860s and was numbered. Neoclassical buildings were on every side of the street and did not affect the central part of the street and still survives with arches with sidewalks after World War II and the Greek Civil War but parts and the southern and the northern parts saw three to eight-story buildings in the northern and the southern parts of the city as the population grew. Traffic lights were added along with street lights. More lights were added in the 1970s and the 1980s, as well as the 1990s and the 2000s by Agias Sofias Street.

[edit] See also

• List of main streets in Patras