Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Stavroupoli has one driving restriction on our books: the «Έγκριση μόνιμων μέτρων κυκλοφορικών ρυθμίσεων σύμφωνα με την 217/2018… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-29, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-29.
Σταυρούπολη is the near north-west of Thessaloniki — a suburb of its own, in its own municipality, about two kilometres from the city's registered centre. Three short stretches of street around πλατεία Ελευθερίας, the square at its heart, are pedestrian streets. Not in the evening, not in summer: permanently, at every hour of every day.
The measure is decision 217/2018 of the municipal council of Δήμος Παύλου Μελά, approved by the Συντονιστής of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Μακεδονίας - Θράκης at Θεσσαλονίκη on 11 January 2019 and gazetted on the 29th.
What it pedestrianises is named street by street and end to end: οδός Ναυάρχου Βότση from οδός Λυσιστράτης to οδός Σίνα, οδός Χάνι Γραβιάς from οδός Ολύμπου to οδός Σίνα, and the stretch of οδός Αντιγόνου from οδός Χάνι Γραβιάς to οδός Ναυάρχου Βότση.
Together, in the approving authority's own words, they are «οι πεζόδρομοι που περικλείουν την πλατεία Ελευθερίας» — the pedestrian streets that enclose the square. 🔑 THIS IS THE FIRST PERMANENT GREEK CLOSURE IN THIS CORPUS THAT CAME OUT OF A TRAFFIC DECISION.
Every other Greek pedestrianisation here is seasonal — a summer evening in Κίσσαμος, spring to autumn in Αρεόπολη — and the one other permanent one, in central Thessaloniki, is a town-planning amendment rather than a traffic act. This act says «μόνιμων μέτρων ρύθμισης της κυκλοφορίας», permanent measures of traffic regulation, and then sets no season, no weekday and no hour at all.
There is no timetable to look up because there is no timetable. 🚨 AND THE MAP DOES NOT CARRY IT. This was measured, not assumed.
Each of the three regulated stretches can be picked out on OpenStreetMap because the act names the streets at both of its ends, and none of the three is mapped as a pedestrian street. The Ναυάρχου Βότση stretch is an ordinary one-way residential road. The Χάνι Γραβιάς stretch is an ordinary one-way residential road with a 20 km/h speed limit — a speed limit is a map's way of saying cars drive here.
The Αντιγόνου stretch is a living street, which permits motor traffic at walking pace and is not the same thing as a pedestrian street. A satnav reading that data will route you through all three. ⚠️ ONE NUMBER IN THIS ACT IS NOT A FINE AND LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE ONE.
The sixteenth recital records that the decision causes «δαπάνη ύψους 55.125,00 €» against the municipality's own 2018 budget under account Κ.Α.30.7336.00. That is what the works cost the council. It is the only sum of money in the document, and it has nothing to do with what a driver pays. 🚫 The rulebook that would tell you who may still drive in is named by this act and cannot be read.
The act makes the operation of its pedestrian streets subject to «τον Κανονισμό λειτουργίας των πεζοδρόμων», the municipality's own pedestrian-street regulation, adopted as the second limb of the same council decision — and that regulation is not in the gazette. The municipality's website is closed to automated readers by its own robots.txt, which this project honours.
So the exemptions exist and this page cannot list them.