Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Kalymnos has one driving restriction on our books: the Περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση της δημοτικής οδού προς την πλατεία της Ρίνας… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-23, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-22.
For two months of the summer evening, one road on the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos closes to traffic.
The rule is the first clause of a decision of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αιγαίου gazetted on 14 August 2026, and the sentence that carries it is short enough to quote whole: «Εγκρίνουμε την περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση, σύμφωνα με τα προβλεπόμενα στον ισχύων κανονισμό πεζοδρόμησης, στην δημοτική οδό που οδηγεί στην πλατεία της Ρίνας με κατεύθυνση προς το λιμανάκι στην περιοχή «Ρίνα» του Βαθύ Δήμου Καλυμνίων, κατά την περίοδο από 15η Ιουλίου έως 15η Σεπτεμβρίου από 19:30 μ.μ. έως 24:00 π.μ.» — the periodic pedestrianisation of the municipal road that leads to the square of Rina, heading towards the little harbour, in the Rina district of Vathy, from 15 July to 15 September, 19:30 to midnight. 🔑 This matters to a visitor more than its size suggests.
Vathy is the fjord on the east coast of Kalymnos that excursion boats and hire cars come to see, Rina is the hamlet at the head of it, and the road being closed is the one that runs down to the water where the tavernas are — so the closure lands exactly on the evening a visitor is most likely to drive there. ⚠️ The act orders one sign and prints its code as **P-55**, which the Greek Highway Code defines as a pedestrian street admitting only pedestrians, emergency vehicles and vehicles going in and out of a property on that road.
It also prints one surveyed point for it, in the Greek national grid, and nothing else of the geometry. 🚨 **The act does not say that the season repeats.** It writes the period as two calendar dates with no year and no «κάθε έτους», where the companion Sifnos act published three weeks earlier says «για κάθε έτος» in so many words.
This record reads it as annual — the dates carry no year, the signage ordered is permanent, and the act was gazetted on 14 August, a month into the first season, which a one-off reading would make close to pointless — but that is a reading, and `hours` says so rather than hiding it. ⚠️ And the rule had not necessarily started even in 2026: the third condition makes the measures effective «από την τοποθέτηση των οικείων πινακίδων σήμανσης», from the day the signs go up, and gives no date for that.