Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Skala Kallonis has one driving restriction on our books: the Περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση τμήματος της κεντρικής οδού που οδηγεί στη… (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.
Skala Kallonis is the little port on the gulf in the middle of Lesbos — the one people drive to for the beach, the tavernas on the front and the flamingos in the salt pans — and for five months of the year its centre closes to traffic every evening. From 1 May to 30 September, between 18:00 and 01:00, the section of the central road that leads to the square from the west, the north and the east is a pedestrian street.
The rule is clause Α) of a decision of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αιγαίου, signed at Piraeus on 18 July 2025 and gazetted on 28 July 2025, approving decision 153/2024 of the municipal council of Δήμος Δυτικής Λέσβου. 🔑 This gazette item is one decision carrying three separate closures in three settlements of the same municipality — Skala Kallonis, Mithymna and Vasilika — each with its own season, its own clock and its own coordinate table, and each published here as its own record. 🔑 Unlike most of the Greek closures in this corpus, the act defines the closed length by naming the sign positions that bound it: «οροθετείται από τις θέσεις των πινακίδων 9,10, 3, 4, 5, 6 και 7», and then prints all eleven positions in the Greek national grid with the sign codes that stand at each.
That is the most complete signing table this project has yet read out of a Greek pedestrianisation.