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District in Thessaloniki, Greece

Charilaou

Charilaou is a district in eastern Thessaloniki, Greece.

Charilaou
Charilaou · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Charilaou is a district in eastern Thessaloniki, Greece.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Charilaou

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
    White Tower of Thessaloniki

    The White Tower of Thessaloniki is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. The present tower likely replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around the 12th century, that the Ottoman Empire reconstructed to fortify the city's fortress some time after Sultan Murad II captured Thessaloniki in 1430.

    3.3 km · fortified tower · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Toumba Stadium

    Toumba Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece, mainly used for football. It is property of AC PAOK and hosts PAOK FC since its completion in 1959.

    1.6 km · football stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Arch of Galerius and Rotunda

    The Arch of Galerius or Kamara and the Rotunda of Galerius are neighbouring early fourth-century AD monuments in the city of Thessaloniki, in the region of Central Macedonia in northern Greece. As an outstanding example of early Byzantine art and architecture, in addition to the importance of the rotunda as one of the earliest Christian monuments in the Eastern Roman Empire, both sites were inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1988 as part of the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki.

    3.8 km · monument in Thessaloniki, Greece · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

    The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. It holds and interprets artifacts from the Prehistoric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the city of Thessaloniki but also from the region of Macedonia in general.

    3 km · museum in Greece · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kaftanzoglio National Stadium

    Kaftanzoglio National Stadium is a sports stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece. It currently has 27,560 seats, owing to conversion of terraces to seats in 2000 and a comprehensive renovation before reopening to host football matches for the 2004 Summer Olympics, which was centered in Athens.

    2.8 km · sports stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    University of Macedonia

    The University of Macedonia is a public university in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. Founded as School of Higher Industrial Studies of Thessaloniki in 1948 and started its first operation during the academic year 1957–1958, it is the second largest university in the city.

    2.9 km · university in Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium

    The Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium or Charilaou Ground is a football stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was built in 1951 as the home stadium of Aris, one of the most popular football clubs in Greece.

    200 m · football stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of Saint Panteleimon

    The Church of Saint Panteleimon, officially the Holy Church of Saint Panteleimon, is a Greek Orthodox church located in Thessaloniki, in the Central Macedonia region of Greece. The Byzantine-era church was built in the 14th century.

    3.9 km · church in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Museum of Byzantine Culture

    The Museum of Byzantine Culture is a museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, which opened in 1994.

    2.8 km · museum in Greece · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of the Saviour

    The Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour is a 14th-century Byzantine chapel in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki.

    3.8 km · 14th-century Byzantine chapel in Thessaloniki, Greece · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Charilaou

Airports
Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 9 km · Kavala Alexander the Great (KVA), 143 km · Skopje (SKP), 188 km
Stations
Efkleidis metro station, 1.9 km · Fleming metro station, 1.3 km · Papafi metro station, 2.2 km · 25 Martiou metro station, 700 m · Nomarchia metro station, 1.3 km
  • Kavala → Charilaou
    13 km · quickest by road, 40 min · €1.5–2
  • Kerkyra (Corfu) → Charilaou
    36 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €6–8
  • Spata-Artemida → Charilaou
    22 km · quickest by road, 49 min · €3.5–5
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Charilaou

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 Charilaou. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSkopje – A number of local travel agencies in Skopje also arrange transport to Thessaloniki daily by car or minibus.
  • Get inApart from those, the majority of flights are charter and seasonal flights by holiday specialists.
  • Go nextYou can visit the island on a day trip but its definitively worth to spent more days.
  • Go nextThere are ferry boats from Kavala harbor and Keramoti.

From Wikivoyage: Thessaloniki, 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
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    148 km
  3. 03
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    249 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    406 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    449 km

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

Around it

Next door to Charilaou

Charilaou is 5 km from Thessaloníki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.