Paiania

Paiania lies on the eastern flank of Mount Hymettus, east of Athens. In antiquity it was two demes, Upper and Lower Paeania in ancient Attica. The modern town grew from the village of Liopesi, which later took back the ancient name. It was the home deme of the orator Demosthenes, who lived from 384 to 322 BC, and of Philippides, an archon basileus. My photographs show the entrance canopy and Holiday Inn sign of a hotel, seen from the driveway behind a clipped hedge. My video pans along the front of the grey-panelled block, past clipped hedges to tall conifers, a lamp post and a kerb with an orange cone.

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  Holiday Inn, Athens, Greece, 15 May 2025