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Glyka Nera

Glyka Nera is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens Metropolitan Area in Attica, Greece.

Glyka Nera
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The place

Glyka Nera is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens Metropolitan Area in Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it belongs to the East Attica regional unit and is part of the municipality Paiania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 9.238 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glyka Nera

2 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
    Deree College

    The American College of Greece is a private college, graduate business school, and primary and high school in Agia Paraskevi, Greece

    2.1 km · part of American College of Greece · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    House of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

    The Broadcasting House or House of Radio is an office and broadcasting installation building in Athens, Greece. It currently houses the Greek state broadcaster, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation.

    3.1 km · building in Agia Paraskevi, Attica Region, 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 Glyka Nera

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 10 km · Santorini (JTR), 228 km · Chania (CHQ), 275 km
Stations
Doukissis Plakentias metro station, 3.8 km · Paiania-Kantza station, 2.1 km · Pallini station, 2.4 km
  • Santorini Island → Glyka Nera
    226 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 49m · €83–213
  • Souda → Glyka Nera
    279 km · quickest by air, 4h 4m · €90–140
  • Thessaloniki → Glyka Nera
    305 km · quickest by air, 4h 21m · €100–160
  • 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 Glyka Nera

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inGenerally, pedestrian ferry users will be closer than cruise passengers to the Metro station providing access to central Athens; walking distances can vary considerably.
  • Go nextPiraeus - the harbour of Athens, and Rafina (on the east coast of Attica) are the departure points for a large number of ferry services to the Greek Islands and other destinations in the eastern Mediterranean, including ports in Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Israel and Cyprus.
  • Go nextThe closest islands, suitable for a day trip from Piraeus, are in the Argosaronic (or Saronic) gulf: Hydra Aegina Poros Spetses Kea (also pronounced Tzia) is a very nearby destination, too, less than two hours from the port of Lavrio.
  • Go nextFrom here you can continue to Kymi and take the ferry to Skyros island or choose to explore the islands hidden gems.
  • Go nextDay trips to the Corinth Canal, the ancient theatre at Epidaurus and to the ancient sites of Olympia, Delphi and Mycenae are easy with a rental car.

From Wikivoyage: Athens, 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

    144 km
  2. 02
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    177 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    244 km
  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    296 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    318 km

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

Around it

Next door to Glyka Nera

Glyka Nera is 11 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.