Andrea Syngrou Avenue is an important road in Athens, linking Poseidonos Avenue with the centre and other avenues. It is planned, built and later named for Andreas Syngrou.
It runs southwest to northeast, with a speed limit of 90km/h. The Syngrou-Fix station of the Attiko Metro's Red Line is situated at the northeastern end of the avenue.
The avenue has hotels, restaurants as well as shops and stores mainly 4 to 8 storey buildings by its one-way service road of the same name.
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The avenue passes between the municipalities of Palaio Faliro, Kallithea and Nea Smyrni as well as Athens, and has about four to five interchanges.
It is the only avenue in Athens to resemble a motorway, since it has no traffic lights, except of course when it reaches the city centre.
Most of Athens' brothels, strip clubs and adult entertainment bars are located there.
The Avenue was extended to six lanes in the mid-20th century. It consisted of several intersections.
In the 1970s, an interchange was under construction and became linked with the superhighway offering easy access between Piraeus and Athens as well as Kifissia.
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Later, an interchange between another road and Kalliroi Avenue which links with Kifissias Avenue. In 1994, an interchange with an avenue 1 km northeast of Poseidonos Avenue which provides access to Athens at 40 km/h was shut down for a while and constructed an interchange, which was first opened in 1995.
Between 1997 and 1999, three more interchanges opened, two providing one-direction interchanges and the other providing one-direction interchange with one underground interchange and connecting with the Kalliroi junction.
The Attiko station Syngrou-Fix was also under construction until the early-2000s.
Koukaki is situated southwest of the centre of Athens. Nevertheless it is very close from here to major attractions such as the Acropolis which is within walking distance. Famous Plaka district is just few bus stops from Koukaki. There is also famous Kallimarmaron Stadium where the First Olympic Games were held in 1896.
