Keratsíni
Keratsini is a suburban town in the western part of the Piraeus regional unit, which in turn is a part of the Athens Urban Area.
Keratsini is a suburban town in the western part of the Piraeus regional unit, which in turn is a part of the Athens Urban Area. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Keratsini-Drapetsona, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
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Worth seeing in and around Keratsíni
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.
- 01Daphni 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.
5.4 km · 11th-century Byzantine monastery in Greece · Wikipedia - 02Karaiskakis 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.
4.8 km · football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece · Wikipedia - 03cycling 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.
4.8 km · six cycling events were contested at the Neo Phaliron Velodrome · Wikipedia - 04Peace 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.
5.2 km · multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Greece · Wikipedia - 05University 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.
4.2 km · university located in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 06Egaleo
Aigaleo or Egaleo, and known in antiquity as Poikilon Oros, is a mountain next to the Athens urban area, in Attica, Greece. It lies west of the Athens plain, southeast of Eleusis, and east of the island of Salamis.
3.4 km · mountain in Attica, Greece · Wikipedia - 07Holy 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.
3.5 km · church building in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 08Railway 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.
3.3 km · museum in Greece · Wikipedia - 09Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is a museum in Piraeus, a port city within the Athens urban area in Greece. It contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times.
4.1 km · museum in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 10Piraeus Municipal Theatre
The Piraeus Municipal Theatre is a neoclassical building built on plans by the architect Ioannis Lazarimos and was opened on 9 April 1895. The theatre has a 600-seat capacity and is located in the centremost place of Piraeus.
3.7 km · theatre in Piraeus, Greece · Wikipedia
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Getting to Keratsíni
- Airports
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 29 km · Santorini (JTR), 240 km · Chania (CHQ), 275 km
- Stations
- Piraeus, 3.7 km · Port of Piraeus, 3.2 km · Piraeus metro station, 3.1 km · Zea harbor, 4.3 km · Skaramangas, 5 km
- Santorini Island → Keratsíni11158 km · quickest by air, 22h 28m · $1,640–2,530
- Souda → Keratsíni278 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · €130–190
- Thessaloniki → Keratsíni304 km · quickest by air, 5h 13m · €140–210
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No local-transport research exists yet for Keratsíni
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 Keratsíni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Keratsíni
Keratsíni is 10 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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