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Notable buildings on Patission street

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'''Patision Street''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] '''Οδός Πατησίων''') is one of the major streets in central [[Athens]], [[Greece]]. Its formal name is '''28 October Street''', commemorating the day in [[1940]] that the Greek Prime Minister, [[Ioannis Metaxas]], refused the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's ultimatum that Greece submit to Italian control, thus starting the [[Greco-Italian War]].

Patision Street was first laid out in [[1841]]. It connects the area known as [[Patissia]] with [[Omonoia square]] in the center of Athens. It is crowded by bus and trolley bus lines, which connect the city center with [[Kypseli]] (trolley lines 2, 4, 9), Lamprini (trolley lines 5, 13, 14), [[Patissia]] (trolley line 11), [[Nea Philadelphia]] (trolley line 3), [[Perissos]] (bus lines 605, 054), [[Marousi]] (bus line A8) and [[Galatsi]] (bus line 608). It is a southbound one-way route with a northbound bus lane until it meets Marnis street, and it has three lanes per direction until Amerikis square.

== Notable buildings on Patission street ==
* [[National arhaeological Museum of Athens]]
* [[Athens Polytechnic]]
* [[Athens University of Economics and Business]]
* Casa di Italia (Italiko Morfotiko Institouto)
* [[Maria Callas]]' house

==Intersections==
*[[Galatsiou Avenue]]
*[[Alexandras Avenue]]
*[[Panepistimiou Street]]
*[[Aiolou Street|Aiolou]] is the continuation of Patission Avenue south

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 == Notable buildings on Patission street ==
 * [[National arhaeological Museum of Athens]]
-* [[Athens Polytechnic]]
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 * [[Athens University of Economics and Business]]
 * Casa di Italia (Italiko Morfotiko Institouto)

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