Two-day visit to Athena will be held on September 21 and 22 by the Mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglou, as an official guest of the mayor of Athens, Costa Bakoyannis.
Mr. Imamoglou’s trip is part of an exchange of Mr. Bakoyannis’s visit to Istanbul last May, when the two mayors had signed Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation in its fields culture and his tourism.
According to the official program of Imamoglou’s visit, which he discovered from Municipality of Athens, the mayor of Istanbul will visit tomorrow Tuesday at 11:15, the Athens City Hall, where we will meet with Mr. Bakoyannis, while they will follow joint statements to the press.
At 13:00, the two mayors will visit Maximos Palace, where they will be received in a half-hour meeting by the Prime Minister Kyriako MitsotakiIn the afternoon, the mayor of Athens will accompany Mr. Imamoglou on a tour of the Archaeological site of the Acropolis, while at 21:00 you will visit the Herodion to watch the play Monica Bellucci, Maria Callas: Letters and Memories.
As part of the tour of the mayor of Istanbul in Athens, on Wednesday at 11:30 there will be a visit to the Ancient Agora, joined by Mr. Imamoglou you will visit -accompanied by the mayor of Athens- the area of Syntagma Square and the Zappeion, to see the urban regeneration projects that are taking place in the area. At 16:30 there will be a visit to the exhibition “Portals” of the Organization for Culture and Development NEON at the former Public Tobacco Factory in Lenorman, while Mr. Imamoglou will leave on Wednesday night for Istanbul.