The oldest stairs of Patras are more than a connection between neighborhoods. They are memory, motion, and perspective – with 93 marble steps linking lives and stories.
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The city’s first step toward the upper neighborhood.
The Patreos Street stairs were the first to be built in Patras. Construction began in 1873 and was completed and opened to the public in 1881, during the mayoralty of Thanasis Kanakaris-Roufos.
With 93 marble steps, crafted from abundant local marble, the stairs connect the lower city (urban and commercial center) with the upper, humbler neighborhood of Agios Georgios and the beginning of P.P. Germanou Street. Over the years, they have served as a daily passage between different worlds: the bourgeois and industrial families and the rural households and landowners.
Today, beyond serving as a functional passage, the stairs are also a viewpoint, a place for rest, and a hub of social life—a public corridor where history descends and ascends alongside the people.
