--- title: "Soúda – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Soúda, Greece: Souda is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. Nearby: Suda Bay War Cemetery, School Life Museum…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/souda" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/souda.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Souda_Bay_War_Cemetery_Graves._Crete%2C_Greece.jpg/1920px-Souda_Bay_War_Cemetery_Graves._Crete%2C_Greece.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipal unit in Greece · Crete # Soúda Souda is a town and former municipality in the Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. ![Soúda](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Souda_Bay_War_Cemetery_Graves._Crete%2C_Greece.jpg/1920px-Souda_Bay_War_Cemetery_Graves._Crete%2C_Greece.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Soúda · Ввласенко The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souda), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Suda 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souda_Bay_War_Cemetery) 2. School 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Life_Museum) 3. Museum 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Typography) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Soúda **Airports:** Chania (CHQ), 9 km · Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis (HER), 102 km · Santorini (JTR), 163 km\ - Heraklion → Soúda 97 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €14–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/heraklion-to-souda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Heraklion&to=So%C3%BAda) - Santorini Island → Soúda Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/santorini-island-to-souda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Santorini+Island&to=So%C3%BAda) - Spata-Artemida → Soúda 275 km · quickest by air, 3h 34m · €80–110 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/spata-artemida-to-souda) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Spata-Artemida&to=So%C3%BAda) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=So%C3%BAda) 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 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in From April to early November, there are many direct charter flights to Chania from the UK, Germany, Scandinavia and other European countries. - Get in Ferry services from Athens (Piraeus port) to Chania (Hania) anchor at the nearby port of Souda. - Get in Daily ferries, one ordinary with ANEK and one fast catamaran with Hellenic Seaways. - Get in Hiring 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. From [Wikivoyage: Chania](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Chania), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 216 km 2. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 246 km 3. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 503 km 4. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 520 km 5. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 543 km If you know how people move in Soúda – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csouda&title=So%C3%BAda&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsouda), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Soúda - [Nerokouros](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nerokouros) village in Chania, Greece 2.7 km - [Eleftherios Venizelos Municipal Unit](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/eleftherios-venizelos-municipal-unit) subdivision of Chania Municipality, Greece 3 km - [Malaxa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/malaxa) village in Chania, Crete, Greece 2.1 km [The place page for Soúda](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/souda) [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/souda, 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