The Gazi (Gaz) Factory was founded in 1857.
Today it is converted into the City of Athens Technopolis.
The City of Athens Technopolis, is a vigorous industrial museum, of incomparable architecture, one of the most interesting of its kind in Europe. It is lodged in the old Athens Gasworks and very close to the Acropolis. Its gradual transformation into a multi-purpose cultural center, hosting various events, gives the opportunity to the visitors to tour in a site full of images, knowledge and emotions.
The charm of a bygone era, clearly to be seen in the form of the funnels, the gasholders, the chimney stacks and retort furnaces, “conspires” in a way that establishes the “Technopolis” as a ‘factory’ for protecting and generating art.