Irákleio
Irakleio, Attica is a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region.
Irakleio, Attica is a suburb in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region.
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Worth seeing in and around Irákleio
9 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.
- 01Olympic Stadium in Athens
The Olympic Stadium of Athens "Spyros Louis" is a sports stadium in Marousi, in the north section of Athens, Greece. With a total capacity of 75,000, it is the largest sports venue in Greece.
2.4 km · multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 02Agia Sophia Stadium
Agia Sophia Stadium, also known as Allwyn Arena for sponsorship reasons and as AEK Arena for UEFA competitions, is the home stadium of AEK Athens. With an all-seater capacity of 32,500 it is the third largest football stadium overall in Greece.
2.6 km · stadium in Nea Filadelfeia, Attica Region, Greece · Wikipedia - 03Galatsi Olympic Hall
The Galatsi Olympic Hall is a multi-use indoor arena that is located in Galatsi, Athens, Greece. It was the site of table tennis and rhythmic gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
2.6 km · multi-use indoor arena in Galatsi, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 04Georgios Kamaras Stadium
Georgios Kamaras Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Apollon Smyrnis.
3.3 km · multi-purpose stadium in Rizoupoli, Attica Region, Greece · Wikipedia - 05Antonis Tritsis Metropolitan Park
Antonis Tritsis Metropolitan Park is a public park in Ilion, Greece, and it is the largest park in Attica. The park is the only one dedicated exclusively to environmental awareness and education in Greece.
4 km · public park in Ilion, Greece · Wikipedia - 06Omorfokklisia
Omorfokklisia is a 12th-century Greek Orthodox church in Galatsi, a northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece. This church dedicated to Saint George is considered one of the landmarks of the area.
2.4 km · Byzantine church in Galatsi near Athens · Wikipedia - 07The Mall Athens
The Mall Athens is a shopping mall in Athens, Greece. It was the first of the kind to be constructed in Greece and one of the largest shopping and leisure centres in Southeastern Europe.
2.2 km · shopping center in Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 08Spathario Museum
The Spathario Shadow Theatre Museum is a museum in Maroussi, Athens, Greece. It exhibits mostly shadow puppet artifacts and it is named after prominent Greek puppet shadow artist Evgenios Spatharis.
4 km · shadow puppets museum in Marousi, Greece · Wikipedia - 09Deste Foundation
Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art is an arts foundation in Nea Ionia, a northern suburb of Athens, Greece. Housing the art collection of Greek businessman Dakis Joannou, it organizes exhibitions with the collection and commissions new work by emerging and established international contemporary artists.
1.3 km · art museum · Wikipedia
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Getting to Irákleio
- Airports
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 20 km · Santorini (JTR), 238 km · Chania (CHQ), 282 km
- Stations
- Ano Patisia metro station, 4 km · Nea Ionia metro station, 1.4 km · Irakleio metro station, 400 m · Nerantziotissa metro station, 2.4 km · Marousi metro station, 3.4 km
- Santorini Island → IrákleioTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Souda → Irákleio287 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · €110–170
- Thessaloniki → Irákleio296 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · €120–190
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No local-transport research exists yet for Irákleio
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 Irákleio. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Irákleio
Irákleio is 8 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Marousinorthern suburb of Athens, Greece2.9 km
- Nea Ioniasuburb of Athens, Greece2.4 km
- Galatsisuburb of Athens, Greece4 km
- Nea Filadelfeiasuburb of Athens, Greece3 km
- Filothei-Psychiko Municipalitymunicipality of Greece3.7 km
- Metamorfosisuburb of Athens, Greece1.5 km