Psilalonia Square

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Psila Alonia Square

Psilalonia Square or Psila Alwnia (Greek: Plateia Psilaonion) is one of Patras's most popular squares. The square is located 1.5 km from downtown Patras, 135 km (old: about 16 km) west of Corinth, 218 km (old: 239 km) west of Athens, 96 km (old: 100 km) northeast of Pyrgos, 143 km northwest of Tripoli and 76 km northwest of Kalavryta. Psilalonia Square has an entrance by the northwest with Gounari Street

The square features a fountain in the middle and until the 1950s with sidewalks. Trees surround the square and it features a grassy field, palm trees, a playground and a monument. Several shops surround the square and restaurants including Goody's in the southeast end and many more concentrated in the eastern and the northern sections, it features some seats at the edge of the square and a kiosk in the southeast and the northwest ends. Residential buildings also surround the square.

The square features modernistic buildings around and it had red shingles with arches.

1 Information
2 Panorama
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Information

It was completed in the mid to late-19th century when the population boomed. Trees were added along with neo-classical buildings. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, almost every neo-classical buildings does not exist, they were replaced by eight storey residential buildings in which it were completed in the 1960s. Restaurants were added in the 1980s.

[edit] Panorama

In the west end, a cliff that is about 15 m tall lies to the west. It offers panorama includes the Arakynthos mountains and the mountains of the Etoloakarnania, it also offers a viewFokida prefecture as well as the Panachaiko and the mountains to the southeast including Omplos and the south. The buildings blocks the panorama except for the western portion.