Inside the abandoned airport THREE times the size of Monaco

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A European airport three times the size of Monaco has been abandoned and left to rot since closing over 20 years ago.

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The Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, served 11 million passengers a year and recorded 13.5 million passengers during its final year of operations.

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But after the new Eleftherios Venizelos airport - also known as Athens International Airport - was built for the 2004 Olympic Games, it soon closed.

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The last aircraft to depart from Ellinikon was an Olympic Airways Boeing 737 bound for Thessaloníki on March 28, 2001.

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Part of the airport was converted into Olympic facilities including a venue for water-sports, fencing, hockey and baseball.

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But despite moves in 2005 to have it transformed into a huge urban park, it has lain empty and unused.

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Abandoned planes, empty hangars, overgrown runways and crumbling infrastructure formed part of the huge eyesore that was once a major international airport.

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