--- title: "Neos Zygos – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Neos Zygos, Greece: Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/neos-zygos" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/neos-zygos.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village in Eastern Macedonia, Greece · East Macedonia and Thrace # Neos Zygos Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece. The place Neos Zygos is a village in the Kavala regional unit of Greece. It was created in the 1990s with a government grant for the housing of returned Pontic Greek expatriates from the Soviet Union. Between 1990 and 1993, 110 families were settled there. It was recognized as a settlement in 1991 as part of the community of Zygos. As part of the Kapodistrias reform, it became part of the municipality of Filippoi in 1997. Since the implementation of the 2010 Kallikratis Programme, together with Zygos, it constitutes the municipal community of Zygos which belongs to the municipal unit of Filippoi of the municipality of Kavala. According to the 2021 census it has a population of 365 inhabitants. Neos Zygos is located 12 km northwest of Kavala at an altitude of 99 meters above sea level. It is built near and west of the National Road 12, between the villages of Zygos (south), Palaia Kavala (southwest), Amygdaleona (north) and Polystylo (east). Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neos_Zygos), CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Neos Zygos **Airports:** Kavala Alexander the Great (KVA), 22 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 127 km · Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 129 km\ - Thessaloniki → Neos Zygos 127 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €15–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/thessaloniki-to-neos-zygos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Thessaloniki&to=Neos+Zygos) - Spata-Artemida → Neos Zygos 339 km · quickest by air, 4h 1m · €110–170 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/spata-artemida-to-neos-zygos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Spata-Artemida&to=Neos+Zygos) - Kerkyra (Corfu) → Neos Zygos 407 km · quickest by air, 5h 21m · €140–400 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kerkyra-corfu-to-neos-zygos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kerkyra+%28Corfu%29&to=Neos+Zygos) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Neos%20Zygos) 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 Neos Zygos 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 Neos Zygos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in It is possible to reach it by ferry from Lemnos, and several other north Aegean islands. - Get in With a bit of careful planning, or aimless wandering, it is possible to reach Kavala from almost any Greek island with a ferry via other islands. - Go next Thassos can be visited as a day trip from Kavala, but it is worth to spend several days there. - Go next Xanthi: famous for its carnival and picturesque Old Town Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Island: Reachable by ferry boat from Kavala. - Go next Reachable by ferry boat via Alexandroupolis Nestos: About 30 km east of Kavala lies the nature reserve of the Nestos river, an area of unique natural beauty and wildlife Serres & Serres (region) is a provincial town on the way to Bulgaria. From [Wikivoyage: Kavala](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kavala), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 36 km 2. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 92 km 3. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 154 km 4. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 402 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 447 km If you know how people move in Neos Zygos – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cneos-zygos&title=Neos+Zygos&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fneos-zygos), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Neos Zygos - [Zygos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zygos) town in Greece 3.5 km [The place page for Neos Zygos](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/neos-zygos) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Greece](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/neos-zygos, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt