Tavros – Eleftherios Venizelos metro station  Tavros metro station ( "Stathmos Tavrou-Eleftheriou Venizelou") is on Line 1 of the Athens Metro, 6.171 km from the line's southern terminus at Piraeus. It is located in the municipality of Tavros, 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 where 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. Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989. At a cost 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", later extended as "Tavros-Irini".