Pavlidis Chocolate Factory
The Pavlidis chocolate factory on Pireos Street with the characteristic packaging of its historical product.
Modern and Contemporary era (1821 - )
The business had already begun operation during the Ottoman period, but it was transferred here at the end of the 19th-century.
Ottoman era (1453- 1821)
Byzantine era (331 AC- 1453)
Roman era (30 BC- 330 AC)
Hellenistic era (322- 31 BC)
Classical era (478-323 BC)
Archaic era (800-479 BC)
Geometric era (-1100- 800 BC)
Prehistory (-1100 BC)
What I can see
The Pavlidis factory is the only remaining factory which operates in the city centre and is housed in a 19th-century building with modern additions. The old buildings are from the first industrial period (around 1890) with classicist elements (e.g. simple building mass, accented pillars, arched endings of openings, simple Doric lines, crowning with statues).
What I can't see
This place housed the – by now more than a century old – family-run chocolate business of Spyridon Pavlidis. Although it has been bought in recent decades by an international investment group, potentially influencing the chocolate’s quality, the Pavlidis chocolate business is still famous for its dark chocolate, wrapped in an equally old and timeless blue wrapper, depicting the Acropolis as well as medals which the company has been winning since even the very first years of operation.
Info
- Address: 135 Pireos St.
Bibliography
http://www.tovima.gr/culture/article/?aid=381037
Last visit: 15/9/2015
Archive of traditional settlements and listed buildings, (d.u.), Παυλίδη Βιομηχανικό Συγκρότημα, [Pavlidis Industrial Complex], Ministry of Environment,
http://estia.minenv.gr/EXEC
Last visit 15/9/2015
Yohalas T., Kafetzaki Τ., (2013), Αθήνα, Ιχνηλατώντας την πόλη με οδηγό την ιστορία και τη λογοτεχνία [Athens, Tracing the city guided by history and literature], ESTIA Bookstore
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