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Greece starts clearing ground for Athens plan after long delay

Project aims to turn the Hellenikon airport, abandoned for nearly two decades, into one of Europe's biggest tourist resorts

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Published Fri, Jul 3, 2020 · 09:50 PM

    Athens

    GREECE started work clearing ground on Friday for a real estate project that plans to turn a disused airport on the Athens coast into one of Europe's biggest tourist resorts, three times the size of Monaco.

    The former Hellenikon airport, a sprawling site of disused runways, terminals and venues used for the Athens 2004 Olympics, has been abandoned for almost two decades.

    Greece

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