Attica
Athens Prefecture
Athens

Greek Public Tobacco Factory

The Greek Public Tobacco Factory at 218 Lenormann Street, in the area of Kolonos, was the second public tobacco factory in , , built by the Greek State at the time when the cigarette manufacturing industry was booming, in order to house the tobacco processing and packaging companies as well as the tobacco traders' warehouses, with the main purpose of fully controlling tobacco taxation.
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  • Type: Industrial building
  • Description: building in Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Δημόσιον Καπνεργοστάσιον”
  • Address: Λένορμαν 218, Αθήνα, 10443

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Athens railway station.

Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC. is situated 770 metres south of Greek Public Tobacco Factory.

Railway station
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in . Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the… is situated 1 km southeast of Greek Public Tobacco Factory.

Metro station
Photo: Argybz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a station on Athens Metro Line 2. It was named after the neighbourhood , where it is located. It opened on 28 January 2000 and served as the original northern terminus of Line 2 until opened in August 2004. is situated 590 metres northeast of Greek Public Tobacco Factory.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kolonos and Akadimia Platonos.

Quarter
Colonus or was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river .

Quarter
Photo: Tomisti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
literally meaning Plato's Academy, is a neighbourhood located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of .

Neighborhood
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hill located in , Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill. In Antiquity, it was dedicated to and named after "Demeter Euchloös".

Greek Public Tobacco Factory

Latitude
37.99809° or 37° 59′ 53″ north
Longitude
23.71048° or 23° 42′ 38″ east
Inception
1930
Levels
2
Open location code
8G95XPX6+65
Open­Street­Map ID
way 48652718
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q110286704
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In Other Languages

From French to Greek—“Greek Public Tobacco Factory” goes by many names.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Βιβλιοθήκη Πόλης Βουλής των Ελλήνων and Μπενάκειος Βιβλιοθήκη.

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