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Detail from one from the two fountains in George A' square in Patras

GEORGE A' SQUARE IN PATRAS
It was completed during the Capodistria government with the plan in which it was envoyed under the leader Stamatis Voulgaris in 1829. The plan saw the public of Patras from the beginning in which the city was destroyed during the battle of the Greek Revolution. The plain included the creation of the new city next to the old with grid and horizontal streets and new large squares. During that time, the square began as Dimokratias (Δημοκρατίας), it later changed to Kalamogdarti (Καλαμογδάρτη), Othonos (Όθωνος) after Otto I of Greece, Central Square (Κεντρική Kentriki), Thomopoulou (Θωμόπουλου) after Thomopoulos, Ethniki (Εθνική, literally the national Square), Palligenesias (Παλλιγενεσίας) and since 1863, Georgiou I. By the square features the Apollo Theatre, which was completed by Ernest Schiller, today, many of them are ordered in Italy. It was reconstructed several times and its last time was in 2006. In the square, Periklis Kalamogdartis had its first constitution of Greece and it was named after himself for a while.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, many neo classical buildings do not exist mainly in the northeastern, the eastern and the southwestern sections. They have been replaced with eight to nine storey buildings in which were completed in the 1960s. Since the 1950s, the GR-8 and the GR-9 runs through the square in which are now secondary routes, its primary route is to the west and the superhighway and the perimeter since 2001 are further east. Traffic lights were installed in the 1960s in Korinthou at the southeast side and Maizonos at the northwest side.


Renovation
In 2002, the square was renovated, tiles and fountains were renovated, another building in the northwest section was under construction and was completed by Fall of 2004, it features several shops and escalators, it resembles as an outdoor mall with shops. The section from Maizonos and Korinthou and Korinthou and Maizonos were closed in order to alleviate traffic congestion in which lasted for a couple of years. Traffic lights remain nowadays as pedestrian lights, one of the traffic lights at the older intersection remained, the other two were removed.


from wikipedia