ASPROPYRGOS

'Aspropyrgos' (Greek: Ασπρόπυργος for white tower) is a suburban community located 20 NW of Athens in the heart of the Thriasian plain, and Thria was known in ancient times. The population is around 27,500; its dialing code is 210.
Its main street is Dimokratias Avenue. Aspropyrgos used to be a petroleum|oil producing-community, and oil was its main industry together with agriculture. Agriculture is, however, rare today. Eleusis military airport forms its communal and municipal boundary in its west, while Mount Parnitha is in the northeast. A small port is found in the south and the shores are aligned with trees ; willow and other types of pineless trees dominate the city's coastline. Aegaleo mountain is in the southwest and its landscape is rocky, and its nearest highway is GR-8A/E94, with its interchange at 2 km south of the centre. The interchange was a junction until 1994, and was then closed off from 1996 until 1997 in order to extend the number of lanes to four. The main street also serves a road that linked the Peloponnese and the northern and eastern suburbs of Athens, while the industrial area is in the southeastern part of the Aspropyrgos ; the entire south is also industrialized. Attiki Odos is now accessible to its north with an interchange, and the high-speed rail will be found to the north but without a nearby station.
The refinery south of the city has ben producing oil for many years, while the size and level of production is smaller than Corinth's refinery ; pollution has been a problem for years. The refinery includes depots in the southern and eastern parts, and some in the western part and at a dock to the southwest. The Skaramangas Bay lies to the south ; and a lagoon where the area is less than 1 km². The highway is in the west and the boundary with Chaidari is in the south, with the Aegaleo Ring situated in the east but not fully accessible.
Aspropyrgos has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, a post office, a train station, a port, and squares (''plateia'').

Contents

Communities

Nearest Places

Historical Population

See Also

Communities

★ 'Aspropyrgos'

Nearest Places

★ Fyli (north)

★ Ano Liosia, NE

★ Elefsina, W

★ Skaramangas, SE, S

Historical Population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Municipal population	Change
1981	12,541	-	-	-
1991	15,034	2,493/19.88%	15,715	-

681 inhabitants (as of 1991) live in another community.

'Northwest:' Magoula	'North:' Dervenochori
'West:' Eleusis	'Aspropyrgos'	'East:' Fyli and Ano Liosia
'Southwest:' Gulf of Eleusis	'South:' Chaidari	'Southeast:' Petroupolis

See Also

★ List of cities in Greece