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Agios Ioannis Renti

Agios Ioannis Renti is a suburb and a former municipality in the Piraeus regional unit, lying in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece.

Agios Ioannis Renti
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The place

Agios Ioannis Renti is a suburb and a former municipality in the Piraeus regional unit, lying in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Renti, of which it is a municipal unit.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Agios Ioannis Renti

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
    Karaiskakis Stadium

    The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, commonly referred to as the Karaiskakis Stadium, is a football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece, and the home ground of the Piraeus football club Olympiacos. It is named after Georgios Karaiskakis, a military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence, who was mortally wounded in the area.

    2.3 km · football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Library of Greece

    The National Library of Greece is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production.

    3.6 km · national library in Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics

    At the 1896 Summer Olympics, six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Cycling.

    2.3 km · six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Peace and Friendship Stadium

    The Peace and Friendship Stadium, commonly known by its acronym SEF, is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Greece. The arena is mostly known for being the home to EuroLeague team Olympiacos, and is the central venue of the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex.

    2.7 km · multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Greece · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    University of Piraeus

    University of Piraeus is a Greek public university located in Piraeus, Greece with a total of ten academic departments focused mainly on Business Management, Computer science, Economics, Finance and Maritime Studies.

    3 km · university located in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Agricultural University of Athens

    The Agricultural University of Athens is the third oldest university in Greece. Since 1920, it has made contributions to Greek agricultural and economic development, by conducting basic and applied research in Agricultural Science and Technology.

    3.9 km · the third oldest university in Greece · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Athens Mosque

    The Votanikos Mosque, more commonly known as the Mosque of Athens or the Athens Mosque, is a mosque in the Votanikos neighbourhood of Athens, Greece. It is the first official mosque in the Greek capital since the Greek War of Independence.

    3.7 km · mosque in the Votanikos neighbourhood of Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Holy Trinity Church

    The Hagia Triada Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox church in the city of Piraeus, in Greece. The largest church in its community, Hagia Triada is the cathedral and the metropolitan seat of the Holy Metropolis of Piraeus.

    3.1 km · church building in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Railway Museum of Athens

    The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978. It was located at 4 Siokou Street in Athens, but the collection has since been moved to the former MPR Depot site in Lefka, Piraeus in 2019 (not to be confused with the Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus.

    2.1 km · museum in Greece · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex

    The Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Sports Complex is a complex in the coastal zone of Piraeus, Greece. It consists of two indoor arenas and a beach volleyball stadium, and it hosted Handball, Taekwondo, and volleyball events at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

    4 km · sports park in Athens, 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 Agios Ioannis Renti

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 25 km · Santorini (JTR), 237 km · Chania (CHQ), 274 km
Stations
Piraeus, 3.1 km · Port of Piraeus, 3.8 km · Piraeus metro station, 2.9 km · Zea harbor, 3.6 km · Munichia, 3 km
  • Santorini Island → Agios Ioannis Renti
    234 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 3m · €60–179
  • Souda → Agios Ioannis Renti
    277 km · quickest by air, 4h 44m · €120–180
  • Thessaloniki → Agios Ioannis Renti
    305 km · quickest by air, 5h · €130–200
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Agios Ioannis Renti

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 Agios Ioannis Renti. 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
  1. 01
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    157 km
  2. 02
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    250 km
  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    308 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    325 km

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

Around it

Next door to Agios Ioannis Renti

Agios Ioannis Renti is 6 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.