Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Areopoli has one driving restriction on our books: the «Έγκριση μέτρων ρύθμισης της κυκλοφορίας που περιλαμβάνονται στην… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-28, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-28.
Αρεόπολη is the stone-built market town of the Mani peninsula, in Λακωνία at the southern end of the Peloponnese, and on summer afternoons three connected stretches of its old centre stop being roads. From 1 March to 31 October, between three in the afternoon and four the next morning, vehicles may not use the stone-paved municipal street sections or the part of the road that rings πλατεία Αθανάτων.
On Sundays and public holidays the ban runs the whole twenty-four hours. The measure is decision 37/2018 of the municipal council of Δήμος Ανατολικής Μάνης, approved by the Συντονιστής of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου at Πάτρα on 15 March 2019 and gazetted a week later. 🔑 THIS IS THE FIRST GREEK ACT IN THIS CORPUS THAT PUBLISHES ITS PLAN.
Twelve earlier Greek records asked the same question — is the drawing the act approves actually in the gazette? — and all twelve ended in «not published». This issue is 14 645 845 bytes for twelve pages, and six of those pages are full-sheet rasters: plan Σ3 «Οριζοντιογραφία εναλλακτικής διαδρομής» at 1:1.000, plan Σ5 «Κυκλοφοριακή ρύθμιση» at 1:500 — the one the operative part names — and plan Σ6 at 1:20.
They are legible. They carry a labelled national-grid tick mesh, street names the act itself never writes, and a legend. 🔑 AND Σ6 IS SOMETHING NO OTHER RECORD IN THIS CORPUS HAS: A DIMENSIONED DRAWING OF THE SIGN THE DRIVER WILL ACTUALLY MEET.
It is an engineering elevation of the information board, 2 394 mm by 2 670 mm, «ΕΜΒΑΔΟ: 6.39m²», with every letter height figured — and the text on its face is the timetable in the act's own terms: «ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΗ ΠΕΖΟΔΡΟΜΗΣΗ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΗΝΕΣ 1/3 - 31/10 ΩΡΕΣ: 15:00 4:00» and, below it, «ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΓΙΕΣ ΟΛΟ ΤΟ 24ΩΡΟ». ⚠️ AND YET THE BOUNDARY IS STILL NOT PUBLISHED, FOR A REASON THE DRAWINGS PRINT ON THEMSELVES.
In the bottom-left corner of both site plans their own producer has printed «Για τεχνικούς λόγους στο σχεδιάγραμμα, από το ηλεκτρονικό αρχείο, έγινε σμίκρυνση κατά ποσοστό» — for technical reasons the drawing was reduced by a percentage — and the percentage is left blank.
A drawing whose author will not say what scale it is now at is not a measuring instrument, and this project does not trace a polygon off a raster in any case. 🚨 THE EXTENT IS THEREFORE IN METRES AND CAFÉ NAMES, WHICH IS A SHAPE THIS CORPUS HAS NOT SEEN BEFORE.
The act gives three sections and their lengths — 85 m, 85 m plus 65 m, and 230 m, about 465 m in all — and fixes their ends by naming four businesses: the Ξιφαράς, Ψωίνου and Γούδη cafés and the shop «Μαύρα Μεσάνυχτα». Not one street name, and not one coordinate. 🔑 IT ALSO EXEMPTS MORE CLASSES THAN ANY OTHER GREEK ACT HERE, AND BICYCLES ARE AMONG THEM.