Moschato
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Moschato is a suburb in the south southern part of Athens
, Greece
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Moschato-Tavros, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
Phaleron Bay
lies to the south in which between 2002 and 2004 extended land. The city is linked by the Poseidonos Avenue
(GR-89
to the west and the superhighway GR-1
/E75
, GR-8
/E94 for northbound lanes which now has easy access to the Peloponnese
. Syngrou
Avenue is accessed in the southeast. It is also located W of Athens
, WNW of Syngrou Avenue, NW of Vouliagmeni
, E of Piraeus
and SE of Kifissou Avenue. The Cephissus
river lies to the west and now flows underneath the superhighway. Another stream which has been known since the ancient times, Ilissos, lies to the east and borders with Kallithea.
The area was formerly made up of farmlands; mixed farming was common, i.e. vegetables and grapes. Urban development replaced much of the farmland in the 1920s and the 1930s, and today, most of the municipality is urbanized or residential. The industrial area lies to the north, and most of the industrial buildings and businesses, along with shopping outlets, are aligned within Poseidonos Avenue and other main streets: Makrygianni Avenue and Chrysostomou Smyrnis Street, which connect the metro station with Posseidonos Avenue. Moschato is linked with the ISAP
(Green line metro station) named the Moschato station
, as well as with the new Athens Tram
on Line 1. Moschato has a number of facilities which were used for the 2004 Summer Olympics
in Athens.
ISAP
TRAIN - Athens
- Piraeus
TRAM LINE - Piraeus
- Athens
- Glyfada
): The "Old Square" on Makrygianni Avenue by the cathedral of "Metamorfosis tou Sotiros" (Holy Transfiguration) and the "New Square" in front of the City Hall on Korai Street. The local fair is held on 6 August every year, festivities starting from the 5th , when the cathedral of Aghia Sotira (Our Christ Saviour) has its religious holiday.
Moschato is also known for its Carnival celebrations held every year approximately two weeks before Clean Monday (Kathara Deytera). Festivities for all ages are held throughout the town and more specific at the Tent (Tenta) that the municipal puts up at the Korai Str. square. Delegations from many cities across Greece as well as foreign communities take part in this two week festivity. Teenagers have the opportunity to take part in a large Treasure/Scavenger Hunt (Kinigi toy Chamenou Thisavrou) which takes place in all of Moschato and lasts for the entire two weeks, engaging into games, singing contests, city wide treasure hunts, mascarade competitions and with the chance of winning prizes, trips and many other gifts.
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Moschato-Tavros, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
Phaleron Bay
Phaleron Bay
Faliron Bay, is a bay almost 8 km directly SW of Athens overlooking Andreas Syngrou Avenue...
lies to the south in which between 2002 and 2004 extended land. The city is linked by the Poseidonos Avenue
Poseidonos Avenue
Poseidonos Avenue is a coastal road in Piraeus, Greece , that runs from Faliron to Glyfada, and beyond. Several Greek films were shot on the road, particularly between the 1950s and the 1980s, along with television shows since the 1980s. The road turns into GR-91 after Glyfada, a dangerous road...
(GR-89
Greek National Road 89
Greek National Road 89 is a highway that goes from Koropi to Lavrio as a continuation of the Attiki Odos route. It starts from the Airport intersection near Koropi and ends at the Lavrio port. It has two lanes per direction. It has 6 traffic lights, making it more like an urban avenue rather than a...
to the west and the superhighway GR-1
Greek National Road 1
The Greek Motorway 1 is a motorway, partly under construction, and the 2nd longest in Greece. It is the principal north-south road connection in Greece, connecting the country's capital Athens with the regions of Thessaly and Macedonia, as well as the country's second largest city,...
/E75
European route E75
European route E 75 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.The E 75 starts from Vardø, Norway in the Barents Sea and runs south through Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia and Republic of Macedonia to Sitia, Greece on...
, GR-8
Greek National Road 8
The National Road 8 in Greece is a single carriageway with at-grade intersections in the Attica and Peloponnese regions. It links the cities of Patras, Corinth and Athens. Until the 1960s when the National Road 8A, a toll road, replaced it as a major route, it was the only road linking Athens and...
/E94 for northbound lanes which now has easy access to the Peloponnese
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...
. Syngrou
Andreas Syngros
Andreas Syngros was a Greek banker from Istanbul, at the time known internationally as Constantinople, and a philanthropist.Born in Istanbul to Chiot parents, Syngros was one of the founders of the Bank of Constantinople along with Stephanos Skouloudis. Syngros married Iphigenia Mavrokordatou of...
Avenue is accessed in the southeast. It is also located W of Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, WNW of Syngrou Avenue, NW of Vouliagmeni
Vouliagmeni
Vouliagmeni is a seaside town and former municipality 20 km south of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is a municipal unit. Its population was 6,442 at the 2001 census. Vouliagmeni is among the most...
, E of Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
and SE of Kifissou Avenue. The Cephissus
Cephissus (Athenian plain)
Cephissus , Kifissós) or Cephisus Kifisos), a river flowing through the Athenian plain.In his summary of Greek mythology Apollodorus declares that Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus by Diogenia daughter of Cephissus.This river is found in the western part of the...
river lies to the west and now flows underneath the superhighway. Another stream which has been known since the ancient times, Ilissos, lies to the east and borders with Kallithea.
The area was formerly made up of farmlands; mixed farming was common, i.e. vegetables and grapes. Urban development replaced much of the farmland in the 1920s and the 1930s, and today, most of the municipality is urbanized or residential. The industrial area lies to the north, and most of the industrial buildings and businesses, along with shopping outlets, are aligned within Poseidonos Avenue and other main streets: Makrygianni Avenue and Chrysostomou Smyrnis Street, which connect the metro station with Posseidonos Avenue. Moschato is linked with the ISAP
ISAP
I.S.A.P. is the acronym for the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways , the oldest urban rapid transit system of Athens metropolitan area in Greece. It is the second-oldest underground metro system in the world, after the Metropolitan Railway, of 1863, now a part of the London Underground...
(Green line metro station) named the Moschato station
Moschato station
The Moschato or Moshato station , older forms: -o and -on on Moschato is an ISAP train station in Moschato, Nea Ionia, Greece several kilometres southwest of Athens and east of Piraeus. It is marked at the 3.982 km from the starting point in Piraeus...
, as well as with the new Athens Tram
Athens Tram
The Athens Tram is public tram network system serving Athens. It is constructed, owned and operated by Tram S.A. , subsidiary company of Attiko Metro S.A. ....
on Line 1. Moschato has a number of facilities which were used for the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
in Athens.
Transit routes
Moschato are connected with several transit routes that buses run:- 914 OmonoiaOmonoiaOmonoia may refer to:*Omonoia Square, one of Athens' main squares, Omonoia Station, the subway station located on the square or Omonoia, the neighborhood around it.*Omonoia , a political and cultural organization of the Greeks living in Albania...
- Lachanagora - Palaia Kokkynia (circular) - 860 Palaio Galiro - Schisto Keratsini
- 229 Piraeus - Agios DimitriosAgios DimitriosAgios Dimitrios is a suburb in the southern part of Athens, Greece. Several main roads pass through the city. It is also linked to Katechaki, Vouliagmenis Avenue to the east, Poseidonos Avenue Agios Dimitrios (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος meaning Saint Demetrius) is a suburb in the southern part of...
(Dafni station) - 217 Piraeus - Agios Dimitrios (Dafni station)
- 101 Piraeus - AlimosAlimosAlimos is an affluent suburb in the south-southwestern part of Athens, Greece, also known as Kalamaki . Poseidonos Avenue runs in the western part of Alimos, with the Hymettus mountain to the east meeting mainly grassland, while areas to the north of Argyroupoli are forested...
- Elliniko - B1 Piraeus - Ano GlyfadaAno GlyfadaAno Glyfada is a subdivision of the municipality of Glyfada in Athens, Greece literally meaning "Upper Glyfada"....
- 500 Piraeus - KifissiaKifissiaKifissia or Kifisia is one of the most expensive northern suburbs of Athens, mainly accessed via Kifissias Avenue, running all the way from central Athens up to Theseos Avenue in the suburb of Nea Erythraia. It has traditionally been home to the major Greek political families...
- 130 Piraeus - Nea SmyrniNea SmyrniNea Smyrni is a southern suburb of Athens, Greece. Nea Smyrni is located about 5 km SW of downtown Athens, about 5 km SW of Kifissias Avenue, W of Vouliagmenis Avenue, about 6 km E of Piraeus, and NE of Poseidonos Avenue....
(circular) - 049 Piraeus - Omonoia
- 040 Piraeus - Syntagma
- 232 Piraeus - YmittosYmittosYmittos , is a suburb of Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dafni-Ymittos, of which it is a municipal unit....
- VyronasVyronasVyronas is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece. The city is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous English poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece... - 218 Piraeus - Ymittos - IlioupoliIlioupoliIlioupoli is a suburb in the south-southeastern part of metropolitan Athens, Greece.The area was made up of farmlands to the west and the central part and the rocky areas of the Hymettus to its east. Mixed farming was common in the western part. Much of the agricultural production that time was...
- C1 Piraeus - Lake Vouliagmeni
- 420 Piraeus - Agioi AnargyroiAgioi AnargyroiAgioi Anargyroi is a suburb in the northern part of Athens, Greece, named for Saints Cosmas and Damian...
(via Kifissou) - A1 Piraeus - VoulaVoulaVoula is a town and former municipality in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.Voula is a southern suburb of Athens...
ISAP
ISAP
I.S.A.P. is the acronym for the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways , the oldest urban rapid transit system of Athens metropolitan area in Greece. It is the second-oldest underground metro system in the world, after the Metropolitan Railway, of 1863, now a part of the London Underground...
TRAIN - Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
- Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
TRAM LINE - Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
- Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
- Glyfada
Glyfada
Glyfada is a suburb of Athens, situated in the southern parts of the Athens Metropolitan Area. The area, which is home to many of Greece's millionaires, ministers and celebrities, stretches out from the foot of the Hymettus mountain and reaches out to embrace the Saronic Gulf. It is the largest of...
Other
Moschato has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a post office and 2 main squares (plateiesPlateia
Plateia or platia is the Greek word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have several town squares which are a point of reference in travelling and guiding...
): The "Old Square" on Makrygianni Avenue by the cathedral of "Metamorfosis tou Sotiros" (Holy Transfiguration) and the "New Square" in front of the City Hall on Korai Street. The local fair is held on 6 August every year, festivities starting from the 5th , when the cathedral of Aghia Sotira (Our Christ Saviour) has its religious holiday.
Moschato is also known for its Carnival celebrations held every year approximately two weeks before Clean Monday (Kathara Deytera). Festivities for all ages are held throughout the town and more specific at the Tent (Tenta) that the municipal puts up at the Korai Str. square. Delegations from many cities across Greece as well as foreign communities take part in this two week festivity. Teenagers have the opportunity to take part in a large Treasure/Scavenger Hunt (Kinigi toy Chamenou Thisavrou) which takes place in all of Moschato and lasts for the entire two weeks, engaging into games, singing contests, city wide treasure hunts, mascarade competitions and with the chance of winning prizes, trips and many other gifts.
Historical population
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1941 | 12,913 |
| 1981 | 21,138 |
| 1991 | 22,039 |
| 2001 | 23,153 |