If you flip through an album of old black and white photos of Athens, you will find that over the decades the city has changed radically.
The “face” of the capital has been “transformed” many times and today almost nothing resembles the Athens of the 50’s, for example. Even older residents may find it difficult to recognize the city and its areas if they see photos of it with the flavor of another era.
One such photo is the one below. It was taken a century ago. Do you recognize the area shown in the photo? If you are a resident of Athens, you have definitely passed by there.
If you see the answer you won’t believe how the point has changed over the years.
Ancient Athens Quiz: Do you recognize the area shown in the photo?
– Piraeus
– Cell
– Just kidding
The answer to the quiz about ancient Athens
In the photo taken in 1928 you see Piraeus and the streets of Tzavella and Zea in the district of Evangelistria. The image belongs to the photographer Paul Schulz and comes from Theodoros Metallinos.
Evangelistria is a district of Piraeus located at the western foot of Kastella hill and connects the center of Piraeus with the Athens-Piraeus industrial road.
It borders Lefka to the north with Omiridou Skylitsi Street, Terpsithea to the south with Eleftheriou Venizelou Street, Kastella to the east with Deligiorgi Street and Gouva to Vavoula to the west with Kountouriotou Street. It is located between Deliiorgis Street – Eleftheriou Venizelou – Kountouriotou and Omiridou Skylitsis.
It took its name from the church of the same name of Evangelistria which is the center of the district together with the neighboring nursing home of Piraeus, built together at the end of the 19th century. The central roads of the district are Grigoriou Lambraki Avenue and Tzavella Street which leads to the hill of Kastella, at their intersection is the church and the nursing home.
In the area there were ruins of the Long Walls from ancient times, the district was inhabited after 1890 by Cretans who left their homeland after the Cretan revolution alongside the neighboring Kastella. The first building to be built was the Piraeus Nursing Home in 1891, with a donation from the mayor Tryfon Moutzopoulos, while then the church of Evangelistria was built next to the nursing home with materials from the small church next to the Tzanio hospital.
Around the church, the settlement of Evangelistria was soon created by large neoclassical buildings, many of which still exist today, with materials used from the ruins of the Long Walls.
Source: www.enikos.gr
