ENVIRONMENT

From 2015 until today, the Municipality of Glyfada, with due care and respect for the environment, proceeded with the necessary technical studies for the initiation and completion of this great project, with significant social implications. A holy temple of modern architectural conception was built within the cemetery area, while approximately 800 new trees were planted. The planting, which was done on the basis of a phytotechnical study, consists of plants that either come from the immediate environment of the area (replanting of existing trees with appropriate processes and preparation by experts), or are found in the wider intervention area (Ymitto) or, finally, are not local flora, but they can thrive, grow and reproduce in the area.

The cemetery was built within the boundaries of the Air Force facilities in Ano Glyfada, where the Telecommunications and Electronic Media Factory (ETHIM) has been housed for decades and will be inaugurated in October. The area of the cemetery begins one kilometer above the last house in the area of Terpsithea, i.e. it is outside the residential zone. The completion of the project reflects its original goal, which was to create a space where the natural environment will dominate, while the final feeling and image of the space will not resemble the usual image of our country's cemeteries, where marble and structured landscape. The burial areas in the largest part of the cemetery do not consist of obvious formations of graves, as is common in most cemeteries of our country, but are covered in larger units that follow the slope of the ground and at the same time preserve the character of its natural configuration.

At the same time, the Municipality of Glyfada built a new perimeter road, with lighting and fencing, to ensure independent access to the new municipal cemetery, as well as the required hydraulic works for the drainage of the cemetery's rainwater. This is a project of great importance for Glyfada and for the whole of Attica.