17 November is currently observed as a holiday in Greece for all educational establishments ; commemorative services are held and students attend school only for these , while some schools and all universities stay closed during the day . The central location for the commemoration is the campus of the Polytechneio . The campus is closed on the 15th ( the day the students first occupied the campus on 1973 ) . Students and politicians lay wreaths on a monument within the Polytechneio on which the names of Polytechneio students killed during the Greek Resistance in the 1940s are inscribed . The commemoration day ends traditionally with a demonstration that begins from the campus of the Polytechneio and ends at the United States embassy . The day is always a day of social unrest where mass riots occur during the entire night
United States embassy
Embassy of the United States, Athens
Athens Polytechnic uprising