Soúda
Souda is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece.
Souda is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chania, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 22.007 km2 (8.497 sq mi). It is an important ferry and naval port at the head of Souda Bay.
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Worth seeing in and around Soúda
3 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.
- 01Suda Bay War Cemetery
The Souda Bay War Cemetery is a military cemetery administered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece. It contains 19 burials from World War I and 731 World War II burials where the body was identified along with another 776 burials of bodies which are unable to be identified.
1.9 km · commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Crete · Wikipedia - 02School Life Museum
The School Life Museum is a museum in Nerokouros, approximately 3.5 kilometers south of Chania, Crete, Greece. The museum seeks to develop into a centre of culture which will focus on the educational and pedagogical practices of the past, the present and the future.
2.4 km · academia exhibits Museum · Wikipedia - 03Museum of Typography
The Museum of Typography is a Greek museum of typography and printing located near Chania, Crete, at the Park of Small Industries in Souda. It was founded by Yannis Garedakis, owner and founder of the local newspaper Haniotika Nea, with the support of his wife Eleni.
400 m · typography museum in Souda, Crete · Wikipedia
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Getting to Soúda
- Airports
- Chania (CHQ), 9 km · Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis (HER), 102 km · Santorini (JTR), 163 km
- Heraklion → Soúda97 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €14–20
- Santorini Island → SoúdaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Spata-Artemida → Soúda275 km · quickest by air, 3h 34m · €80–110
- 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 Soúda
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 Soúda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom April to early November, there are many direct charter flights to Chania from the UK, Germany, Scandinavia and other European countries.
- Get inFerry services from Athens (Piraeus port) to Chania (Hania) anchor at the nearby port of Souda.
- Get inDaily ferries, one ordinary with ANEK and one fast catamaran with Hellenic Seaways.
- Get inHiring a car is easy with the usual documentation (a standard EU driving licence is fine.) Get prior permission in writing from the rental company if you plan to take the car away on a ferry.
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Next door to Soúda
- Nerokourosvillage in Chania, Greece2.7 km
- Eleftherios Venizelos Municipal Unitsubdivision of Chania Municipality, Greece3 km
- Malaxavillage in Chania, Crete, Greece2.1 km