🇬🇷 Athens Walking Tour - Fokionos Negri Linear Park Greece Travel

Kypseli is a neighbourhood in central Athens, Greece. It occupies much of the 6th municipal department in the municipality of Athens, and has a booming population of around 50,000.
Today we take a walking tour around the converted linear park which converted a congested street into a pedestrian paradise with shops, cafes, seating and greenspace called Fokionos Negri.
This centerpiece of Kypseli is a wide avenue park that follows the course of a river, or what passes for rivers in Athens but what you or I would call a stream, brook, creek or ravine where rainwater runs down. The 'river' that comes down from Toukovounia was covered, paved and called Fokionos Negri.
In the seventies, in one of the smartest moves ever made by city planners in Athens they closed it to traffic, tore up the concrete and asphalt and turned it into a long park with stone sidewalks on either side. Both sides of the pedestrian avenue are lined with cafes. Some are very modern with room for hundreds of people and pop music playing all day long for young patrons drinking espressos and frappe, served by beautiful young waitresses, which open at 9am and close whenever the last customer leaves, usually well after midnight. Others are smaller, some former cafeneons which have been turned into cafe-bars with just four or five tables outside and not many more inside.
All the cafes have their own distinct personality and colorful names, some are popular and some you wonder how they stay open. They all have tables and chairs outdoors and in the spring, summer and fall it is the kind of scene that people go to Paris looking for. No cars. (Okay, the occasional motorbike but what can you do if the police won't stop them?) Just grass, trees and people passing by, on their way to work, home, to shop, or walking their dogs.
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Niko and I are eating σπανακόπιτα while we watch 😊