Metropol Hotel is of eclectic architecture and nowadays is a commercial store.
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The former Metropol Hotel consists of a ground floor and 4 floors, it is an eclectic building with decoration on the lintels, the balconies and the corbels. Panagiotis Zizilas, who designed it, was inspired by the French school of Beaux-Arts.
It operated as a luxury hotel, but after the war and by 1969, when it ceased its activity, it had been downgraded to a b-class hotel. Later, it was abandoned and at the end of the century, the interior was demolished, but the façade was preserved. The interior was re-built to serve a retail store.
Archaeology of the city of Athens, (d.u.), Αρχείο Νεοτέρων Μνημείων, [Archive of modern monuments], NHRF
http://www.eie.gr/archaeologia/gr/arxeio.aspx
Last visit 23/1/2023
1914 Constructed.
1997 Restoration of the facade and demolition of the interior.
2000 Works completed.
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