Moschato
Moschato is a town and a suburb in the southwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece.

Moschato is a town and a suburb in the southwestern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Moschato-Tavros, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.
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Worth seeing in and around Moschato
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.
- 01Karaiskakis 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.
500 m · football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece · Wikipedia - 02National 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.
2.4 km · national library in Athens, 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.
500 m · 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.
800 m · 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.
1.5 km · university located in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 06Nea Smyrni Stadium
Nea Smyrni Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nea Smyrni, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Panionios, which plays in Super League 2.
3.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 07Railway 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.
1.5 km · museum in Greece · Wikipedia - 08Holy 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.
2 km · church building in Piraeus, Athens, 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.
2.4 km · museum in Piraeus, Athens, Greece · Wikipedia - 10Faliro 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.
2.4 km · sports park in Athens, Greece · Wikipedia
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Getting to Moschato
- Airports
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 24 km · Santorini (JTR), 236 km · Chania (CHQ), 272 km
- Stations
- Piraeus, 1.9 km · Port of Piraeus, 2.8 km · Piraeus metro station, 2 km · Zea harbor, 2.1 km · Munichia, 1.4 km
- Santorini Island → Moschato233 km · quickest by ferry, 10h 3m · €60–180
- Souda → Moschato276 km · quickest by air, 4h 41m · €120–180
- Thessaloniki → Moschato306 km · quickest by air, 4h 58m · €130–190
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Moschato
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 Moschato. 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 Moschato
Moschato is 7 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kallitheasuburb of Athens, Greece2.9 km
- Nikaiasuburb of Athens, Greece3.5 km
- Palaio Falirosuburb of Athens, Greece3.6 km
- Nea Smyrnisuburb of Athens, Greece3.9 km
- Korydallossuburb of Piraeus, Greece3.3 km
- Drapetsonasuburb of Piraeus, Attica, Greece3.7 km