Olga Square
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Olga Square (Greek: Plateia Olgas) is Patras's second central square. The square is 133 km (old: about 144 km) west of Corinth, 216 km (old: 238 km) west of Athens, 97 km (old: 101 km) northeast of Pyrgos, 145 km northwest of Tripoli and 77 km northwest of Kalavryta.
The square features a fountain in the middle and until the 1950s with sidewalks. Trees align around the square. Several shops surround the square in all directions with a few in the east. It includes restaurants including Goody's (first opened in the 1990s) on Maizonos, McDonald's (first opened in the late-1990s) on Riga Fereou, clothing and footwear shops, convenience stores and more.
The square features neo-classical buildings around and it had red shingles with arches.
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[edit] Streets
Its streets intersecting the square includes, all of them are on both sides:
- Zaimis Street, north
- Maizonos Street (one way southbound), east
- Kolokotronis Street (one way westbound), south
- Riga Fereou Street (one way southbound), west
[edit] Information
It was completed in its first years of independence of Greece. Trees were added along with neo-classical buildings. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many neo classical buildings remain in the western and the northern parts, the eastern and the southern sections saw four to eight storey buildings being built as late as the 1960s. Traffic lights were installed in the 1960s except for by Zaimi. Since the 1950s, the former GR-8 and the current secondary GR-9 runs in both sides of the square in which are now secondary routes, its primary route is to the west and the superhighway and the perimeter since 2001 are further east. Traffic lights were installed in the 1960s in Korinthou at the southeast side and Maizonos at the northwest side.
[edit] Panorama
Its panorama includes the Arakynthos mountains and the mountains of the Etoloakarnania and Fokida prefecture as well as the Panachaiko and the mountains to the southeast including Omplos and the south. The buildings blocks the panorama except for Gerostokopoulou and rarely views from the eastern portion.
