Georgiou I Square (Greek: Plateia Georgiou I) is Patras's central square. The square is named after George I of Greece. The square is 134 km (old: about 145 km) west of Corinth, 216 km (old: 238 km) west of Athens, 96 km (old: 100 km) northeast of Pyrgos, 144 km northwest of Tripoli and 77 km northwest of Kalavryta.
The square features a fountain in the middle and until the 1950s, street lights in the middle. Until the 1950s, trees used to exist by the square. Several shops are around the square. Ermou Street is to the north, Kanaris Street to the east, Votsis Street is to the south and Riga Fereou Street to the west.
The square features neo-classical buildings around and it had red shingles with arches.
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“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
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