Ampelokipoi, Thessaloniki

Ampelokipoi (Greek: Αμπελόκηποι) is a Borough of Thessaloniki. The municipal population is 40,959 as of 2001. It has a land area of 1.803 km².

Ampelokipoi is the second commercial and entertainment area of Thessaloniki after downtown.

Authorities
The Major of the city is Lazaros Kirizoglou who comes after Alexandros Stamatoulakis. The local police station is the central police center in Western Thessaloniki.

Near municipalities
Thessaloniki, Menemeni, Evosmos, Stavroupoli, Neapoli.

Sport activities
The municipal sports club AO Ampelokipon has football, basketball,vollezball, swimming and athletic clubs. The local stadium was training center for Olympic Games of 2004. Now is the football court of Iraklis Ampelokipon, Borras and Asteras teams and the athletic clubs. The municipality have 8 5x5 football courts.

Education
The municipality has many problems in this sector because of the lack of school buildings and overpopulation.

Music
Every summer are organised many music festivals where many Greek and foreign singers go. The most popular local groups is the pop grop Ditikes Sinoikies.