Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Pyrgi has one driving restriction on our books: the Έγκριση κυκλοφοριακής ρύθμισης στην Τοπική Κοινότητα Πυργίου Δήμου Χίου… (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.
Pyrgi is the best known of the Chios mastic villages — the medieval one whose house fronts are covered in black-and-white «ξυστά» scraped plaster — and in October 2024 the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αιγαίου gazetted one vehicle prohibition for it. 🔑 It is a small rule stated exactly: entry is banned for ALL vehicles into a side lane in the Κάτω Παναγιά part of the village, and it is carried by two positions signed Ρ-7.
That is the whole of the scheme. There is no season, no clock, no charge, no permit and no exception written anywhere in the act. 🚨 And what the act calls it is the whole of why this page reads differently from the other Greek ones.
Every other street closure in this corpus's Greek set rests on an act that uses the word «πεζοδρόμηση» — a street turned into a pedestrian street, signed Ρ-55, a sign whose own definition in the Highway Code admits pedestrians, emergency vehicles and vehicles going in and out of parking on properties that front it. 🚫 This act never uses that word, and Ρ-7 admits nobody: article 7 §3 ζ) of the Code defines it in six words — «Απαγορεύεται η είσοδος σε όλα τα οχήματα», entry is prohibited for all vehicles — and attaches no exception to it at all.
So a visitor whose accommodation is up that lane cannot lean on the pedestrian-street carve-out, because this is not a pedestrian street. 🔑 That also makes the penalty unusually settled.
At Sifnos the act says «περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση» about two villages it then signs Ρ-7, and that record has to publish both readings because the word points at €350 and the sign at €150; at Mytilene the word and the sign disagree the same way.
Here the word and the sign say the same thing, so the answer is the sign's: €150 and twenty days' withdrawal of the driving licence, with no competing reading to publish alongside it. ⚠️ The honest limit of this page is that the act does not name the lane. It identifies the place by area — Κάτω Παναγιά — and by two ΕΓΣΑ 87 grid references about 47 m apart, which it calls «ενδεικτικές», indicative.
There is no street name, no map and no boundary anywhere in the gazette, so this record can tell you the rule and where in the village to expect it, and then you must read the sign. ⚠️ And the operative sentence of the decision is not in the extractable text of the gazette PDF: the page it sits on is set in a subset font with no usable character map, so it is quoted below in the publisher's own search index — lower-cased and stripped of accents, which is not how the gazette spells it. 🔑 Nothing else in Pyrgi is covered here.
This act regulates one lane; the searches this project ran found no second traffic act for the village and no amendment to this one, and a narrow village street that a car cannot physically take is not a gazetted prohibition.