Patreos Street
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Patreos Street (Greek: Odos Patreos), is a street in Patras, Achaea, Greece and it runs one way westbound with a stairway in the east. The street is named after the area's famous person Patreas. It begins from a street linking Kanaris Street and ends at Othonos-Amalias Avenue, its total length is approximately 600 m and it has 7 blocks all of them with traffic lights. The road contains one lane with two parking spaces on each side.
Residential buildings with neo-classical and modern architectures covers the entire street. A section of the street from the beginning of the street to Karaiskakis Street are entirely a stairway. The eastern section from Korinthou to Maizonos is only about 50 m west of the Georgiou II Square.
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[edit] Traffic
The street is mainly not frequently used as other major streets in Patras, the flow is mainly moderate to most, it used to serve access to the port but does to the building from the westbound lanes of Dimitris Gounaris Avenue.
[edit] History
The street was paved in the late-19th century along with neo-classical buildings were added. After World War II and the Greek Civil War, the road was finally paved in the 1950s and several buildings were rebuilt. Traffic lights were installed in the 1960s and the 1970s. The street became one way westbound on its entirety.
[edit] Intersections
In order from east to west:
- Karaiskakis Street
- Kanaris Street
- Korinthou Street
- Maizonos Street
- Riga Fereou Street
- Agiou Andreou Street
- Othonos-Amalias Avenue
