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Agía Varvára

Agia Varvara is a suburban town in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Attica, Greece, and a municipality in the West Athens regional unit.

Agía Varvára
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The place

Agia Varvara is a suburban town in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Attica, Greece, and a municipality in the West Athens regional unit.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Agía Varvára

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Daphni Monastery

    Daphni or Dafni is an eleventh-century Byzantine monastery eleven kilometers northwest of central Athens in the suburb of Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue. It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis.

    1.9 km · 11th-century Byzantine monastery in Greece · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Peristeri Stadium

    Peristeri Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Peristeri, a city and a suburb within the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atromitos.

    3.5 km · football stadium in Peristeri, Athens, Greece. Home of Atromitos FC. · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of West Attica

    The University of West Attica is a public university in Athens, Greece. It was established in 2018 as a result of the merger of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus.

    2.2 km · university in Egaleo (Athens), Greece · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Third Cemetery of Athens

    The Third Cemetery of Athens is a cemetery located in the Aspra Chomata district of Nikaia. It is located at the junction of Thebes and Petros Ralli avenues and its central entrance is on Kavkasou street.

    2.7 km · cemetery in Greece · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall

    The Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall is an indoor arena in Nikaia, in Piraeus. It hosted the weightlifting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Greece.

    3.6 km · indoor arena in Piraeus, Greece · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Peristeri Indoor Hall

    Peristeri Indoor Hall Andreas Papandreou, or Peristeri Arena, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Peristeri, a western suburban town in the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The arena is named after Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece, who died in 1996.

    3.4 km · Indoor hall in Peristeri, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Technological Educational Institute of Athens

    The Technological Educational Institute of Athens was a state higher-educational institute in Athens for the applied sciences. Founded in 1983, it originated from one of the first five Centres for Higher Technical Education initially established in 1974.

    2.3 km · defunct tertiary education institute in Greece · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Neapoli Municipal Stadium

    Neapoli Stadium is a football stadium in Nikea, Piraeus, Attica. The stadium was completed in 1965, and currently has a seating capacity of 5,500.

    2.9 km · Football stadium in Neapoli, Nikaia, Greece. Home of the Ionikos FC. · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Korydallos Sports Hall

    Korydallos Sports Hall is an indoor arena that is located in Korydallos, Piraeus, Greece. It is a part of the Korydallos Municipal Sports Center.

    1.9 km · indoor arena in Korydallos, Attica region, Greece · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Nikaia Municipal Stadium

    The Nikaia Municipal Stadium or simple Nikaia stadium is a football stadium in the Piraeus suburb of Nikaia. It is the main playing field for the local Proodeftiki F.C. playing team, and is colloquially known by the name "Proodeftiki Stadium".

    2.6 km · football stadium in Nikaia, Greece · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Agía Varvára

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 27 km · Santorini (JTR), 241 km · Chania (CHQ), 278 km
Stations
Egaleo metro station, 2.9 km · Agia Marina metro station, 1.5 km · Nikaia metro station, 3.8 km · Agia Varvara metro station, 1.4 km · Korydallos metro station, 2.6 km
  • Santorini Island → Agía Varvára
    237 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 7m · €62–182
  • Souda → Agía Varvára
    93 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · €15–20
  • Thessaloniki → Agía Varvára
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · €7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Agía Varvára

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Agía Varvára. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inPiraeus metro station is an interchange station between Athens metro Lines 1 and 3, near E6 gate of the port, from there it's a short walk to the Saronic Gulf ferries, hydrofoils and catamarans, or a free shuttle-bus ride to the ships sailing to Crete and the Dodecanses.
  • Get inCentral Cyclades ferries sail from just across the metro station.
  • Get inFrom the terminal, you could take a taxi, or you might find a city bus going toward the Metro terminal (ask in the terminal); otherwise, you face a walk with entrances to ferry and freight docks on the shore side, and various commercial and civic buildings on the other side of the very busy street.
  • Go nextFrom here flying dolphins and ships leave for the Saronic Gulf Islands (Gate Ε8), high speed catamarans and conventional ferries for the Aegean Islands (Gates E6, E7, E9, E10), ferries and cruise ships for Crete, Lesvos, Chios and the Dodecanese (Gates E3, E2 and Gate E1 respectively) and bigger vessels for Cyprus and the Middle East (Gates E11, E12).

From Wikivoyage: Piraeus, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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  2. 02
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    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

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  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

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  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

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  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

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If you know how people move in Agía Varvára – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Agía Varvára

Agía Varvára is 7 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.