Alexandra's Avenue is a main east-west thoroughfare running from Patission Street/28th of October Street and Kifissias Avenue

Kifissias Avenue

Kifissias Avenue is one of the longest avenues in the Greater Athens area. Its total length is about 20 km, beginning 4 km northeast of downtown Athens and ending by the municipal boundary of Nea Erythraia north of Kifissia...

 in the northern part of the city of Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece

Greece

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. It is named after Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, later Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (daughter of George I of Greece

George I of Greece

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). The avenue has two regular traffic lanes plus one dedicated bus lane per direction. Its total length is approximately 3 km.

Intersections and famous landmarks

Major streets that cross this avenue include Mavrommateon, Spyrou Trikoupi, Valtinon, Vasileiou Voulgaroktonou, Charilaou Trikoupi, Ippokratous, Gkyzi, Koniari, Panormou and D. Soutsou Streets. The avenue features Egiptos Square and the forested Argentinis Dimokratias Square (meaning Argentine Republic) near the Argentine embassy. The Panathinaikos

Panathinaikos

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 stadium named Apostolos Nikolaidis

Apostolos Nikolaidis stadium

Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium is a football stadium in Athens, Greece. The stadium, has been the home of Panathinaikos FC and has played for most of the years of its existence, since its foundation back in 1908....

 lies to the south side near Panormou Street, opposite the St. Savvas Cancer Hospital. The Pedion Areos lies to the north in the west end of the avenue while Strefi Hill is to the south. The Ambelokipi metro line 3 station

Ambelokipi station

Located at Alexandras Ave. and Panormou Ave., it is close not only to Kifissias Ave., but also to some important buildings of Athens, such as the Hellenic Police Headquarters and the Hellenic Supreme Court ....

is near Panormou street on the western end of the Avenue.