Piraeus Shopping
The main port of Athens and one of the biggest in Europe is the Port of Piraeus, the passenger port its self has a massive passenger traffic across the year,not to forget that Greece has more that 2 hundred inhabitant islands that their main connection with the mainland is through the Piraeus port. Daily countless ferries and other liners leaving or arriving in Piraeus. The port is extended to Keratsini, Ikonio and Perama for the load and container ships and further more to Skaramangas ( Shipyard ) Aspropyrgos ( Tankers ) and Elefsina ( shipyards ).
Actually the price tag line of the larger area of Piraeus port can be work out in 30-40 kilometres about including the above docks, shipyards, ports and ports. Piraeus port unlike the other ports is principally the hart of Piraeus, round the port you’ll find all sort of shops, markets, eateries, hostels but generally shipping offices. Piraeus is the center of the Greek shipping industry, almost all of the Greek shipping corporations have here their offices, many Greek ship owners the last twenty years transfer their main offices from London to Piraeus. Today the port has been developed in a modern port particularly after the Olympic Games .
New passenger check in buildings, new entrance gates, refrectories, cantinas and eateries have been improved.
All load ships has been moved to Keratsini and Ikonio so the main port area is just for the passenger ships and Greek ferries sailing for the Greek islands. Looking backwards in history Piraeus has been the main Athenian port since ancient times. From here the traditional Greek ships where sailing to the Athenian colonies in South Italy,Sicily and in other Greek colonies in the Mediterranean. From this port Themistocles send his ships to Salamis to beat the Persian fleet. His statue can been seen at the tiny square in the junction of Akti Pseidonos with Vasileos Georgiou street and Akti Miaouli right opposite the Agia Trias church the Metropolis of Piraeus.
One or two meters near by at the little park you can see a bit of ship metal stub on a pine tree, a record from the bombarding of Piraeus in the war when a bomb hit a Brit ship that was carrying ammunition. The explosion was massive and devastated lots of buildings along the port.
Piraeus indeed is wonderful and has many places to see and to take photographs of Piraeus. The people of Piraeus are proud about their town and their soccer team Olympiakos. Actually the track never on Sun. sang by Melina Merkouri in the homonymous film talks about that soccer team ( the name of the song in Greek is “ta Paidia tou Pirea”,the fellows from Piraeus ) Shopping in Piraeus For shopping in Piraeus the main areas are in the main streets of Piraeus Vasileos Georgiou Avenue, Heroon Polytechneiou Avenue, Defteras Merarhias street, Akti miaouli and Poseidonos, Terpsithea and Passalimani. Round the Metro terminal and the parallel streets of Akti Poseidonos you may find any sort of shops.
Many book shops are along Filonos street from the old post Office towards Vasileos Georgiou street.
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