In 18 months, Lykavittos hill will be overhauled with a new design to make it safer and more attractive to visitors and local residents.
The City of Athens has commissioned works budgetted at 1.5 million euros based on plans of the previous administration.
Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis will ask the Public Properties Company to make a concession of the 3.5 hectares that it owns to the municipality so that it can forge on with its plans for a detailed makeover of 44.2 hectares of land.
“Our aim is to hand over the Athens’ citizens and all its visitors an area for living and doing activities, but also a natural organisation for the production of culture,” Bakoyannis said. Along with the land given by the Public Properties Company, the municipality will complete the project to create an urban forest of ‘unique beauty and usefulness’, not only for Athens but all of Attica,” Mr Bakoyannis said.
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Works include anti-flooding techniques and the laying of a special tarmac on the road so that it blends with the landscape. Footpaths connecting sites on the hill and walking routes of around three kilometres will also be refurbished.