Hellenikon Metropolitan Park Hellenikon Metropolitan Park Hellenikon Metropolitan Park as it has been named, will be a large urban park located in Hellinikon, Athens, Greece. The park will provide Athens with a much needed ecological boost. When finished the park will be the largest in Europe. It will be approximately 200 hectares spanning the site of the former Hellenikon International Airport. Construction had been scheduled to begin in 2008 and be completed by 2013, but plans appear to have been indefinitely shelved in the midst of the financial crisis, and as the government contemplates other uses for the space; plans have been put
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