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A green metal gate, originally ornamented and more symbolic than secure, now reinforced with diamond shaped mesh in all the openings and an extra layer of rusted steel just above the keyhole. Through it, the tiled side stairs of a 20th Century Athenian vernacular house, open to the sky and leading up to a landing and front door on the right.
Terracotta pots with plants on either side of the stairs, one tall enough to fill the righthand panel of the gate pleasingly.
The stairs are ivory, the side walls white, the sky above much the same with cloud, and the whole image is harmonious and appealing.
This is in Mets, one of the few old Athenian neighbourhoods not largely apartment buildings.

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The façade of an early 20th Century building seen from the side. Plaster wall on the left, marble stairs facing to the camera both whitish, very plain. No balustrade. The stairs lead up to a fancy dark brown wooden double door set in an arch. Winter branches with a few yellow leaves all around, trees, vine in need of pruning.

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Through a rusted curlicue iron gate, the whitewashed walls of an abandoned courtyard. The paving is green with weeds, the one storey building in the depths has painted green shutters and intact glass in the door but the overhanging roof is falling in and the stacked plastic chairs are grimy, the whole place says neglect.

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The curvy shadow of a ceramic tile roof from an old neoclassical house falls across the facade of an old neoclassical house with a ceramic roof which is edged with decorative end pieces. It’s a simple house, one storey, with a side courtyard. The wrought iron gate is topped with barbed wire. The shadow of a bird in mid flight near the shuttered window.

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A charming little courtyard on two levels; humble, utilitarian, and pretty in a way that’s typical of vernacular architecture. On the left is a three storey building, of the simplest neoclassical style, painted yellow umber, with a green wooden door. There are concrete steps leading up to an upper courtyard, smaller and squarer, right in the middle. From the left side of this rises a wrought iron spiral fire escape staircase, also painted an earthy dusty yellow, with a landing on the storey above, which continues past the frame of the image. On the right is a little outbuilding with a ceramic tile roof, and behind, uphill, the top of a similar house and courtyard or garden. There are several pots of thriving plants all about, enhancing the space with living green, and brightly patterned sheets across a washing line on the lower level, jeans and leggings on another line at the fire escape landing. But for these and the air conditioning unit on the wall, it might be 100 years ago.

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The gap betwtwo old houses, white on the left, pink on the right. The gate to the one on the right spans the gap.
The one on the left has the same kind of gate, early 20th Century wrought iron, set into the wall. Both gets have been reinforced more recently with wire and plastic mesh to well over head height, and both have decorative pilasters and marble thresholds. The gate to the left, in the white building, is painted pale green and is slight higher, with marble steps. The gate on the right, in the pink building is rust brown and has a marble threshold. High above, in the gap between buildings you can see there’s a spiraling fire escape ladder, and a courtyard behind. Grimly fortified and bleak as they look now, these must once have been nice places to live. Not fancy, but nice.

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A balcony window in a neoclassical building above a door. The doorway has a simple metal barred door on it, with a touch of scrollwork, and is topped with an awning, the kind made of long rounded panes the way a cloth awning might be. The balcony is made of elaborately scrolled cast iron, an oval central panel with stylised leaves and decorative work around it. There are several pots of plants. The window has ironwork security shutters too, now open, of simpler scrollwork, casting their shadows on the plaster walls. The building looks a bit run down, with graffiti in the lower right hand corner of the image, but is clearly inhabited and cared for.

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Through the metalwork on an old iron gate, a narrow courtyard between two apartment buildings. There’s a washing line with white laundry up to dry, and fire escape stairs leading up to higher floors

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A narrow courtyard in terra-cotta coloured building, grey-white checkered tiled floor, grey gate, dappled sunlight, a plant or two, grey metal staircase heading up. Functional but pretty. There’s a bit of bougainvillea too.

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A white-washed courtyard between low buildings. There’s a red-painted metal ladder going up to a flat roof on the left, a shading tree, some plants, a couple of painted wooden doors. Very much like a Greek village courtyard only in central Athens

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An abandoned building with accordion gates pulled across the windows and open front door. On one side a large poster describing the area it is in as a thriving commercial district. The large sign above, black and red lettering on yellow, gives a name and the words Paper Warehouse in Greek

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An ornate metal gate painted turquoise through which bright light, white walls, and an intensely purple-pink bougainvillea can be seen

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An electrician’s shop with a vintage sign OSRAM and the owner’s name and Electrical Works in old fashioned Greek. In the shop’s glass frontage, a clutter of electrical fittings on a shelf, and behind, the lit shop painted orange and cream, a desk, and other furniture

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Looming overhead, an abandoned neoclassical Athenian house, bare stone walls. Two and a half storeys with a semi-basement with two windows, probably the kitchen opposite a tall door and two large windows set slightly higher, three windows above with a balcony at the central one. Tile roof. Abandoned and dilapidated, stone lintels chipped and some roof tiles missing, but standing strong. A few pigeons perched up high.

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The window has white painted old wooden shutters with a two slat gap rotted or broken on one side - looks like there was a patch of some kind over it, which was painted and then fell away. The window stands out nicely against the surrounding terracotta wall

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The glass apartment building door is cracked and patched with cardboard and plastic. The metalwork intended to protect it evokes Ancient Greece, a column to one side and the outline of a sunrise or sunset, rays radiating, bordered in a Greek key pattern all across the top.

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Two low apartment buildings from the early 20th Century side by side against a bright blue sky

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Sunlit gold against the sky, a 2 storey 19th Century house, lightly ornamented with plaster mouldings and with the tall windows and tile roof of the period, closed up and abandoned. There’s a sign hanging from the metalwork balcony For Sale and a telephone numbers

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An elaborate ironwork gate of crossbars and rosettes leading into the atrium of a commercial building. I’ve stepped inside and am looking through to the cars outside

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A pale pink building facade with pale blue doors and shutters, concrete steps climbing up to the door and a tall white metal cabinet, the outdoor storage kind, stands next to them. The railings are covered in vines, currently brown and dry - probably Virginia creeper.

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