Culture‘The last fortress’: historic Athens cafe closes as countercultural area gentrifies

Mouria, a historic cafe in Athens’s Exarchia district, will close permanently on Sunday after its owners declined to renew the lease. A campaign by 7,500 people urged Greece’s culture ministry to protect the site as heritage, but the ministry did not intervene as the neighbourhood undergoes gentrification.

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