Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Filiates has one driving restriction on our books: the «Διακοπή κυκλοφορίας οχημάτων στο δρόμο έναντι Ιερού Ναού Αγ. Δημητρίου… (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.
Φιλιάτες is a small town in Θεσπρωτία, in the Epirus region of north-west mainland Greece. One street in it stops being a street on summer evenings. From 15 June to 15 September every year, every day of the week, between seven in the evening and one in the morning, vehicles may not use the road opposite the church of Άγιος Δημήτριος.
The measure is decision 101/2024 of the municipal council of Δήμος Φιλιατών, approved by the Γραμματέας of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Ηπείρου - Δυτικής Μακεδονίας at Ιωάννινα on 8 November 2024 and gazetted four days later. 🔑 THE RARE THING IN THIS ACT IS THAT IT SAYS WHERE. Every other Greek closure in this corpus describes its extent in words and leaves the drawing unpublished.
This one prints two surveyed points in the national grid — «από το σημείο Α (Χ: 182722.33, Ψ: 4389704.38) έως το σημείο Β (Χ: 182704.47, Ψ: 4389665.88)» — and those two points are about 42 metres apart.
So the closure is not a district or a quarter or an ambiguous stretch of seafront: it is a single short length of road, fixed to the ground by the authority that ordered it. 🔑 And it says «κάθε έτους» — of each year — in so many words. That matters because its nearest sibling in this corpus, the Πλατανιάς evening closure, does not, and there the annual recurrence had to be published as an inference.
Here it is a quotation. 🚨 WHAT THIS RECORD CANNOT TELL YOU IS THE FINE, AND THAT IS A DELIBERATE BLANK RATHER THAN AN OVERSIGHT. The act prints no figure.
It also names no sign — where the Πλατανιάς act orders Ρ-55 and the Κάρπαθος act orders Ρ-7, this one orders «οι οικείες πινακίδες σήμανσης» as a category and stops — so the Greek Highway Code's sign tariff has nothing to attach to. And it never calls the road a πεζόδρομος, which is the other route this corpus has used to price a Greek closure.
The result is a real restriction with no sourceable price, and it is published as exactly that. ⚠️ One more thing the act does not do: it does not exempt anybody. There is no emergency-vehicle carve-out written into it, no residents' clause and no delivery window.
Compare the Γλυφάδα fire-risk closure of 2025, which exempted «τα οχήματα έκτακτης ανάγκης» in its operative sentence; this one says «απαγόρευση κυκλοφορίας οχημάτων» and leaves it there.