Konstantinos Kotsis

Phoenix tree

During just one night literally, palm trees had been planted through the biggest part of Syggrou avenue, the day before Greece joined the European economic society, as prime minister Konstamtinos G. Karamanlis requested. This was the avenue that lead the foreign leaders to the Zappeion.
There are lots of thrills connecting palm trees with Athens. According  to changes of  national narration, trees appeared and disappeared from the city's landscape, approaching either  the east or the west.
Nowadays palm trees in Athens are in front of total disaster because of the red palm weevil threatening them to death. It has been said that the beetle was imported to Greece with palm trees from Egypt, which had been planted to venues of Olympic Games 2004.

Special thanks to Dimitris Athanaselos.