Celebration of Environment Day in the Municipality of Penteli

The Municipality of Penteli, is a celebrated double-day environment. On Saturday 4 June in the framework of the purification of urban…
and peri-urban forests was carried out voluntary cleaning at the square of 25 March in D.K. N.Penteli.
The action was attended by the Mayor of Penteli Dimitris Stergiou-Kapsalis, the Local deputy Mayor.Penteli mr. George Μουαμελεντζής, the Local deputy Mayor D.K. Μελισσίων mr. Elias Τσουχνικάς, the Councillors, mr Lefteris Κιτσούλης and Dimitris Stavropoulos, representatives of the SPAP, employees of the Municipality and residents of the area.
Sunday 5 June the Alpine Club “Βριλησσός” organized a hiking in the Ravine Penteli – Chalandri:
The Mayor of Penteli Dimitris Stergiou – Kapsalis, welcomed the lovers of nature at the start of the route in the Cave Νταβέλη, the 09:00 hour, and as a native Σαρακατσάνος them spoke of the Penteli, the birthplace of the Symbol of Democracy, the Parthenon, the place that watered the Athenians of water for two millennia. The mountain of the Mace that Christianity found challenge and support in the difficult years of the Turkish occupation. The mountain with a rich forests gave life to the φυματικούς the difficult years of the ’50s and settled on the slopes of large hospital units. The mountain where the indigenous Sarakatsani inhabitants supported the suffering from the hunger Athenian with the γιδοπρόβατά and the rebel groups sabotage against the German occupation troops during the German Occupation, for which they paid a large tribute of blood, with executions of the Germans in Pallini. The Penteli which was and is a serious economic factor in the region development of tourism, mining and marketing of marble, supporting for two decades of the ’50s and ’60s, the internal migration of the islanders, chamber of marble, main holiday place for the Athenians and the Piraeus for many decades. It was reported, however, and in the “culture” that unfortunately destroyed the pentelic environment, either in the sense of extreme these slopes and λυκορεμάτων that only the name suggests, the old use, with the aim of making a profit, either by the intentional or negligent fires that destroyed the mount forest.
In the action took part the vice-governor of the North Sector of Athens, mr. George Καραμέρος, the Regional director, mr Fotis Χρυσικός, the Mayor for the Environment of Vrilissia, mr Alexis Mavraganis and the crowd.