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| Borough: | Moschato-Tavros, South Athens | ||||||
| Country: | Greece | ||||||
| Coordinates: | 37.9624°N 23.7033°W | ||||||
| Manager: | STASY | ||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||
| Structure: | At-grade | ||||||
| Accessible: | Yes | ||||||
| Years: | 27 February 1869 | ||||||
| Events: | Line opened | ||||||
| Years1: | 6 February 1989 | ||||||
| Events1: | Station opened | ||||||
| Years2: | 30 January 2004 | ||||||
| Events2: | Station rebuilt[1] | ||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||
Tavros, officially Tavros–Eleftherios Venizelos (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ταύρος–Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) is a station on Line 1 of the Athens Metro, 6.171 km from the line's southern terminus at Piraeus.[2] It is located in the municipality of Tavros in the regional unit of South Athens, Attica, near the boundary with Kallithea. The station is also known as Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelou, after the former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.
The first proposals for a station were made in 1925, when engineer Alexander Verdelis demarcated the Harokopou station at almost the same location as part of his proposal to build a wider subway network for the capital.[3] Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989[4] at a cost of 200 million drachmas. The station was renovated in 2004 in the run-up to the Summer Olympics that year.
It has a central island platform serving two tracks and a reversing siding towards Kallithea station.
In the past the station was the southern terminus of a peak hour train service "Tavros-Ano Patissia",[5] later extended as "Tavros-Irini".