Agia Paraskevi

Agia Paraskevi is a suburb and a municipality in the northeastern a part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is a part of the North Athens nearby unit. Agia Paraskevi become named after the primary church of the city, which is devoted to Saint Paraskevi of Rome. Agia Paraskevi turned into part of the network of Chalandri till 1931, when it have become a separate community. It have become a municipality in 1963. Formerly a farmers' village, it experienced an awful lot suburban development since the Nineteen Fifties.

In 1993, there has been vast competition from inhabitants of the suburb to the development of the Hymettus ring avenue Motorway sixty four. The ring street changed into to form a main motorway at the mountainside linked directly to the Motorway 6, and the development of each motorways were to start straight away. The consciousness that this plan could demand the felling of a widespread variety of trees, in addition to spurring an boom in noise pollutants, predictably aroused the competition of the nearby population, who requested a unique solution: a protected avenue. However, the authorities would no longer reverse the decision and, in reality, sent bulldozers to the mountainside.