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Athens City Hall
10-06-2013 19:12The building of the Athens City Hall is centrally located on 61 Athinas str., across Kotzia Square in walking distance from Omonia Square and the metro station. It is among the most well preserved buildings of neoclassical architecture along with the building of National Bank of Greece just on the opposite side of Kotzia square.
The construction of the municipal hall in the capital city of Athens was decided in 1871, under Mayor P. Kyriakou. The City of Athens got a 130,000 drachmas loan by the National Bank of Greece, in order to build the Municipal Mansion on the western side of Athinas Street. The study and plans were drawn up in 1872 by the architect Panagiotis Kalkos and the building was completed in 1874.
It was first a two-story building with symmetrical morphological organization and Doric portico, austere neoclassical style, strongly influenced by the architecture of the Old Palace on Syntagma Square, which is now the House of Parliament. The initial reforms have already taken place in 1901 under Mayor Spiridon Mercouris, while in 1935 to 1937 under Mayors Kotzias and Plytas, the third floor was added.
The marble propylon at the entrance is one of the characteristic elements of the building while the ground floor is also covered with marble and the openings in between are filled with decorating ironworks. The main entrance has a marble door-frame that ends to a decorating marble jamb. Characteristic element of the facet is the marble balcony.
The building was declared an architectural landmark by the Ministry of Culture in 1989 and in 1994-1995 undertook restoration works, including restoration of certain elements of the 19th century (frames, picture frames and pilasters) on the first floor and the conservation of the second.
The City Hall of Athens is considered to be important for the study of the architectural history and the city-planning development of the city being also a characteristic place of reference for the lives of the people of Athens.
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