Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Thira has one driving restriction on our books: the Έγκριση κυκλοφοριακών ρυθμίσεων στον οικισμό Μεγαλοχωρίου του Δήμου… (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.
Santorini has one gazetted evening road closure, and this is it. From 15 May to 15 October of every year, between 17:00 and midnight, a stretch of road through the centre of Megalochori — the inland village between Pyrgos and Akrotiri that tour buses and hire cars stop at for its wineries and its square — is a pedestrian street. The rule is Αριθμ.
23995/MOE of the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Αιγαίου, signed at Piraeus on 3 September 2024 and gazetted on 13 September 2024, approving decision 152/2024 of the municipal council of Δήμος Θήρας. 🔑 It matters to a visitor more than a single village street usually would, because Santorini's road network funnels: Megalochori sits on the spine road between Fira and Akrotiri, its centre is narrow, and the closed hours are exactly the hours a driver heads south for the Akrotiri sunset. ⚠️ The municipality is named Θήρα, not Σαντορίνη — the island's tourist name is not the administrative one, and searching for the rule under «Σαντορίνη» finds nothing. 🚨 **One thing about this record has to be said at the top, because it is unusual in this corpus: the sentence that carries the rule cannot be extracted from the gazette PDF at all.** The season, the clock and the words «περιοδική πεζοδρόμηση» sit in a subset font with no /ToUnicode; they were recovered from the National Printing House's own search index, which returns them lower-cased and accent-stripped.
That text is the publisher's, and it is quoted here as content — but it cannot be watched, and the gazette's own typography for it is not reproduced here because it is not recoverable. What IS extractable from the file, and watched, is the title naming Megalochori and Δήμος Θήρας, the two surveyed limits of the pedestrianisation, the nineteen sign positions, the council decision number, the date and the signer.