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Abandoned 19th Century Architectural Masterpiece Awaits Restoration


The Athens – Peloponnese Railway Station was the second main railway station in the capital after the Athens-Larissa station but stopped operating in 2005.
An architectural masterpiece, the main building was designed by French engineers  Alfred Rondell and Abel Gotteland. The station was inaugurated in 1884 and was revamped in 1912-13 by renowned architect Ernst Ziller. It stopped operating in August 2005.
The Athens – Peloponnese Railway Station building is listed as having particular architectural value because it is almost like a miniature of the Sirkeci railway station in Istanbul with very small differences.
However, since it stopped operating, the building has been abandoned and left to collapse, to the dismay of locals and people who want to see the magnificent 19th and 20th-century buildings of Athens to be well-preserved.
The platform has been turned into an outdoor parking lot, while the rails have been removed, probably to be sold for scrap metal.
Spyros Manzarinis, director of GAIOSE, the company that manages the building and is responsible for its redevelopment and utilization, told Iefimerida.gr news website that the studies that have been made for the restoration and preservation of the building have been completed since 2014 and have received all approvals from the Ministry of Culture.
Now GAIOSE is waiting for funding to start restoration works of the architectural masterpiece.





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