Ancient Olympia, Greece · Limited traffic zone
Official name Έγκριση της υπ’ αρ. 143/2024 απόφασης του Δημοτικού Συμβουλίου Δήμου Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας, για μέτρα ρύθμισης της κυκλοφορίας αναφορικά με την περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση τμήματος της οδού Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη στην Αρχαία Ολυμπία, κατ’ εφαρμογή του άρθρου 52 του ν. 2696/1999 (Αριθμ. 80407, ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/26.11.2024)
Not in force in Ancient Olympia right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 12:05 · Europe/Athens
Starts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 20:00 local time.
🚨 The window comes from the municipality, not from the gazette, and the page says so wherever it prints an hour. ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/2024 approves the measure «σύμφωνα με την υπ’ αρ. (38) σχετική κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη» — study 14/2024 — and contains no clock at all. The 20:00–07:00 window is published by Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας on its own site, in identical terms in June 2025 and June 2026, and that municipality is the author of the council decision the gazette approved. 🚫 It must not be re-described as a gazetted hour.
⚠️ Seven days is the municipality's «καθημερινά» and not an assumption. Neither announcement gives a weekend variant, a holiday variant or a different hour for any day, so the same window is encoded for all seven.
🚨 ALL TWELVE MONTHS IS AN ADMITTED OVER-WARNING, and it is the deliberate direction. The act's word is «περιοδική» and it attaches no season; the municipality announced the start on 20 June 2025 and on 15 June 2026 and has published no end date on either occasion, and its site was searched for a closing announcement on 2026-09-24 without finding one. If the barriers are taken in for the winter, this schedule warns about a street that is open — which is safe — and it never tells a driver a closed street is open. 🚫 A winter end date must not be invented to tidy this up: no source this project holds states one.
🔑 The loading hours are not windows in this closure. «Ώρες φορτοεκφόρτωσης: Πρωί 08:00-10:00 και Απόγευμα 16:00-18:00» both fall inside the period when the street is open to traffic anyway. They restrict when deliveries may be made; they do not create a gap in the 20:00–07:00 ban. 🚫 Adding either as a window would tell a driver the street is open at a time no source says it is.
Public holidays are not encoded because no source mentions them. Neither the act nor either announcement exempts a day or a date, and «καθημερινά» draws no distinction.
The decision can lapse without another gazette issue: «Η μη τήρηση των όρων και των προϋποθέσεων που έχουν τεθεί από τους αρμοδίους φορείς καθώς και με την απόφαση αυτή συνεπάγεται την αυτοδίκαιη ανάκλησή της». That is a way this record could become wrong quietly, and it is stated rather than assumed away.
🚫 One section of one street is not the centre of Ancient Olympia. This record covers the stretch between Τσουρεκά and Χ. Κοσμόπουλου and nothing else; the 2023 act approved a whole settlement traffic scheme of one-way orders, priorities and parking places whose other items are not access restrictions and are not on this page. A street's absence from this record is not permission to drive it.
The schedule is derived from `hours` and carries no fact that is not in the sources named there.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Ancient Olympia is the seat of Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας in Π.Ε. Ηλείας, and οδός Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη is the street the municipality's own notices mark «(κεντρική οδός)» — the one you would drive along to pass through the village. Every night from 20:00 to 07:00 a section of it — from the junction with οδός Τσουρεκά to the junction with οδός Χ.
Κοσμόπουλου, which the municipality describes as «από την πλατεία του Ι.Ν. Κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκου έως την πλατεία Δημαρχείου» — is closed to vehicles and becomes a pedestrian street. 🔑 The legal history is the reason this record exists, and it is a two-act story a reader should not have to reconstruct.
In ΦΕΚ Β' 1211/06.03.2023 the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου approved the municipality's traffic scheme for the settlement «πλην των ακόλουθων κυκλοφοριακών ρυθμίσεων: i. Της περιοδικής πεζοδρόμησης της οδού Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη» — everything except this.
It refused because two things were missing: «πρέπει να προηγηθεί η έγκριση Κανονισμού Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου και να τεκμηριωθεί η ομαλή εκτροπή της κυκλοφορίας». 🔑 Both were then supplied — council decision 64/2024 approved the pedestrian-street operating regulation, and traffic study 14/2024 documented the alternative route — and on 26 November 2024 the same authority gazetted ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/2024, which records that «εξέλειψαν οι λόγοι μη έγκρισης», approves council decision 143/2024, and states that «με την παρούσα επέρχεται τροποποίηση της υπ’ αρ.
15416/28.02.2023 (Β’ 1211) προγενέστερης απόφασης κατά το σημείο i. του αποφασιστικού της σκέλους». The exception was lifted by amending the act that made it. 🚨 What the gazette does NOT print is the operative detail.
Neither issue gives the end points of the section, the hours, or the exceptions; the 2024 act approves the measure «σύμφωνα με την υπ’ αρ.
(38) σχετική κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη και τα διαγράμματα που τη συνοδεύουν», and that study is not published in the gazette. 🔑 The municipality published the detail itself, twice, on its own site: on 17 June 2025 when the measure first came into effect and on 11 June 2026 when it was put back into effect, in the same words both times.
This record's hours, section and exceptions come from those two pages, and they are quoted on it. ⚠️ One thing no source this project holds will say: whether the measure is lifted outside the summer. The act calls it «περιοδική» and attaches no calendar; the municipality announced a start on 20 June 2025 and again on 15 June 2026 and published no end on either occasion.
The nightly window is therefore encoded for every day of the year, which over-warns in winter if the barriers come out — the safe direction, stated rather than assumed away.
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο (National Printing House) — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/26.11.2024, Αριθμ. 80407 of the Γραμματέας Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου, signed at Patras on 1 November 2024, read together with ΦΕΚ Β' 1211/06.03.2023 for the exception it lifted and with the Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας announcements of 17 June 2025 and 11 June 2026 for the operative detail the gazette leaves to the traffic study
Nothing is charged and there is nothing to buy in advance.
The act is a traffic-regulation approval under article 52 of the Highway Code; it creates no permit sold to visitors, no day ticket and no tariff, and it records that «από την παρούσα απόφαση δεν προκαλείται δαπάνη σε βάρος του κρατικού προϋπολογισμού», putting the cost of the signing on the municipality. ⚠️ One permit exists and it is not for visitors: the municipality's 2025 and 2026 announcements say that properties along the closed section which have a legal off-street parking space may drive in during the hours of the measure «κατόπιν έκδοσης ειδικής άδειας από τον Δήμο» — on a special permit issued by the municipality.
Neither announcement prices it and neither says how it is applied for. ⚠️ A second document could in principle carry a charge and this project has not read it: the Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου approved by council decision 64/2024 (ΑΔΑ 6ΝΖΨΩΨ5-9Ρ0), which the gazette names as the precondition of the whole scheme.
It is not in the gazette, and diavgeia.gov.gr, the national transparency register where it sits, disallows /doc/*, /decision/view and /luminapi/api/decisions/* in its robots.txt — measured for this corpus in cycle 65 and unchanged. So this is an unread document rather than a document known to contain no charge.
Every day, from 20:00 to 07:00 the following morning. The municipality prints it as a single line in both of its announcements — «Χρόνος εφαρμογής των ρυθμίσεων (καθημερινά): από 20:00 έως 07:00» in 2026, and «Χρόνος εφαρμογής των ρυθμίσεων – ωράριο καθημερινά: από 20:00 μέχρι 07:00» in 2025 — and the word «καθημερινά» is doing the work: it is every day, not Monday to Friday.
There is no weekend variant, no holiday variant and no different summer hour. 🚨 The hours are NOT in the gazette, and that is worth stating plainly rather than leaving a reader to assume they are. ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/2024 approves the measure «σύμφωνα με την υπ’ αρ.
(38) σχετική κυκλοφοριακή μελέτη» — traffic study 14/2024 — and prints no clock of any kind; ΦΕΚ Β' 1211/2023, which it amends, prints none either.
The two municipal announcements are the publisher of the hours, and they are the municipality that made the decision the gazette approved. 🔑 Two further hour ranges appear in the same announcements and they are NOT windows in this closure: «Ώρες φορτοεκφόρτωσης: Πρωί 08:00-10:00 και Απόγευμα 16:00-18:00», the hours for loading and unloading.
Both fall wholly inside the period when the street is open to traffic anyway, so they do not open the night closure — they confine deliveries to two slots during the day. 🚫 Do not read them as exemptions from the 20:00–07:00 ban. ⚠️ And one question the sources do not answer: whether the nightly closure runs all year.
The act's own word is «περιοδική», periodic, and it attaches no season and no calendar date; the municipality announced the start on Friday 20 June 2025 and again on Monday 15 June 2026 — «Σας υπενθυμίζουμε ότι από την Δευτέρα 15 Ιουνίου 2026 θέτουμε σε ισχύ το μέτρο» — and published nothing to say it ends. The site was searched for a closing announcement on 2026-09-24 and there is none.
This record therefore encodes the window for all twelve months, which over-warns in winter if the barriers are in fact taken in, and never under-warns.
Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας, official municipal website, announcement «Έναρξη Περιοδικής Πεζοδρόμησης από τη Δευτέρα 15 Ιουνίου 2026», published 11 June 2026 — the municipality whose council decision 143/2024 the gazette approves, publishing the operative detail that the gazette left to the unpublished traffic study
One section of one street, in the middle of a village laid out along it. In the municipality's own words the measure is an «Απαγόρευση εισόδου κυκλοφορίας οχημάτων στην οδό Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη (κεντρική οδός), από τη διασταύρωση με την οδό Τσουρεκά έως τη διασταύρωση με την οδό Χ. Κοσμόπουλου (από την πλατεία του Ι.Ν.
Κοιμήσεως Θεοτόκου έως την πλατεία Δημαρχείου)» — the central street, from the Τσουρεκά junction to the Χ.
Κοσμόπουλου junction, or, given as landmarks, from the square of the church of the Dormition of the Theotokos to the town hall square. 🔑 The gazette gives only «τμήματος της οδού Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη», a section of the street, with no end points at all; the end points on this page are the municipality's, published identically in June 2025 and June 2026. ✅ There is a drawing, it is the publisher's own, and a driver can look at it: the municipality's 2025 announcement carries a plan of the village with the closed section coloured green under the legend «Περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση οδού» and the diversion coloured orange under «Εναλλακτική διαδρομή κυκλοφορίας λόγω της περιοδικής πεζοδρόμησης».
It shows the closed stretch running along the middle of the village grid with the diversion looping around the blocks on both sides to rejoin at each end, and two direction labels off its left-hand edge, «από/προς Δρούβα» and «από/προς Αρχαιολογικό χώρο». 🚫 It is a raster scan and carries no coordinates, no scale bar and no grid, so it is a picture rather than geometry; tracing a line from it would be this project's line and not the municipality's, which D-096 forbids presenting as the latter. 🚫 Neither gazette issue publishes a coordinate of any kind — no ΕΓΣΑ 87 table, no sign position, no bounding point — and the diagrams the 2024 act governs by are the ones accompanying traffic study 14/2024, which is not published with it. ⚠️ Physically the closure is enforced at the entrance rather than along the length: the municipality wrote in 2025 that «στην αρχή της Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη θα τοποθετηθούν οδοφράγματα (κινητά εμπόδια διέλευσης) έως την οριστική προμήθεια και τοποθέτηση σύγχρονης ειδικής μπάρας ελεγχόμενης διέλευσης» — movable barriers at the start of the street, pending a controlled-access bar.
This project holds nothing that says whether the bar has since been installed.
Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας, official municipal website, announcement «ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑ: ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΗΣ ΠΕΖΟΔΡΟΜΗΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΑΞΙΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΚΟΝΔΥΛΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 20 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ», published 17 June 2025, which prints the end points, the barriers and the plan of the closure and the diversion
The authority's own map: Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας, on its own website, beside the announcement of 17 June…
This scheme sets no emission threshold, and the absence is structural rather than unrecorded. A pedestrianisation asks whether a vehicle may be on the street at all, not what comes out of its exhaust.
No Euro class, no fuel type and no registration year appears anywhere in either gazette issue or in either municipal announcement; the only vehicle properties that matter here are whether a vehicle is an emergency vehicle, whether it displays a valid blue disabled badge, and whether it is going to a legal off-street parking space on the closed section.
The same as for petrol and for the same structural reason: nothing in the acts or the announcements distinguishes one engine from another, and the exemptions the municipality publishes turn on what the vehicle is doing and who is in it rather than on what it burns.
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Α' 100/13.06.2025: ν. 5209/2025, «Κώδικας Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας». Article 2 §56 for the definition of a pedestrian street, for the abutting-property entry and exit it allows and for the operating regulation's power to vary it; article 20 §4 and §8 β) for driving on one and for the category it falls in; article 7 §11 ε) for the classification of failing to obey a Ρ-7 plate; article 108 §5 β), γ) and δ) for the tariffs and the licence measures
Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας, official municipal website: the announcements of 11 June 2026 and 17 June 2025, which together print the prohibition, the end points, the hours, the parking ban, the loading slots, the emergency-vehicle exemption, the blue-badge exemption, the frontage-property permit, the bus arrangement and the barriers; read with ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/26.11.2024 for the alternative-route finding and the signing direction, and with ν. 5209/2025 for the sanction
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο (National Printing House) — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/26.11.2024, Αριθμ. 80407 of the Γραμματέας Αποκεντρωμένης Διοίκησης Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου, signed at Patras on 1 November 2024 by ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ «Με εντολή Γραμματέα». THE GOVERNING ACT: it approves council decision 143/2024 of the Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο Δήμου Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας «για μέτρα ρύθμισης της κυκλοφορίας αναφορικά με την περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση τμήματος της οδού Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη στην Αρχαία Ολυμπία, κατ’ εφαρμογή του άρθρου 52 του ν. 2696/1999», records that the grounds for the earlier refusal have fallen away because council decision 64/2024 approved the Κανονισμός Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου and traffic study 14/2024 documented the alternative route, and amends the 2023 act «κατά το σημείο i. του αποφασιστικού της σκέλους». It also carries the commencement clause — the measures «ισχύουν από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης ή των διαγραμμίσεων στο οδόστρωμα» — the direction that the municipality place the signing, and the automatic-revocation clause. 🚨 It prints NO hours, NO end points and NO coordinates: those it leaves to traffic study 14/2024, which is not published with it
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Β' 1211/06.03.2023, the same authority's earlier decision on the same settlement. Cited because of what it REFUSED: it approved council decision 60/2022 «για κυκλοφοριακές ρυθμίσεις στον οικισμό Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας … πλην των ακόλουθων κυκλοφοριακών ρυθμίσεων: i. Της περιοδικής πεζοδρόμησης της οδού Πραξιτέλους Κονδύλη καθώς πρέπει να προηγηθεί η έγκριση Κανονισμού Λειτουργίας Πεζοδρόμου και να τεκμηριωθεί η ομαλή εκτροπή της κυκλοφορίας», and separately refused twelve of sixteen staff parking places. It is the act ΦΕΚ Β' 6465/2024 amends, and it is the reason this record can say that the pedestrianisation was approved on a measured second attempt rather than assumed into force
Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας — official municipal website, announcement «Έναρξη Περιοδικής Πεζοδρόμησης από τη Δευτέρα 15 Ιουνίου 2026», published 11 June 2026. THE SOURCE OF THE OPERATIVE DETAIL, which the gazette does not print: the end points of the closed section, the nightly 20:00–07:00 window, the stopping and parking ban along its whole length, the two loading slots, the emergency-vehicle exemption, the blue-badge exemption, the frontage-property permit and the bus arrangement. This is the municipality whose council decision 143/2024 the gazette approved, publishing the terms of its own measure
Δήμος Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας — official municipal website, announcement «ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑ: ΕΦΑΡΜΟΓΗ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΗΣ ΠΕΖΟΔΡΟΜΗΣΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΡΑΞΙΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΚΟΝΔΥΛΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗ 20 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ», published 17 June 2025. THE SOURCE OF `effective_from`, and of three facts the 2026 announcement does not repeat: that the signing was already in place — «Η λοιπή ειδική σήμανση (πινακίδες) για την εφαρμογή των μέτρων ρύθμισης της κυκλοφορίας έχει ήδη τοποθετηθεί» — that movable barriers stand at the entrance pending a controlled-access bar, and that the measure began «από το βράδυ της ερχόμενης Παρασκευής, 20 Ιουνίου». It also carries the plan of the closure and the diversion that `boundary_coverage` links
Εθνικό Τυπογραφείο — Εφημερίδα της Κυβερνήσεως, ΦΕΚ Α' 100/13.06.2025: ν. 5209/2025, «Κώδικας Οδικής Κυκλοφορίας», the Greek Highway Code — the source of the €350 in `penalty`, of the definition of a pedestrian street in article 2 §56 together with the power it gives an operating regulation to vary the access it allows, of the prohibition and classification in article 20 §4 and §8 β), of the Ρ-7 plate and its Ε2-Β classification in article 7 §11 ε), and of the tariffs and licence measures in article 108 §5
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-23.
