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Town in the Athens metropolitan area, Greece · Attica

Spáta

Spata is a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of downtown Athens, Greece.

Spáta
Spáta · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Spata is a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of downtown Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Spata-Artemida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 55.042 km2. It is part of the Athens metropolitan area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Spáta

2 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. 01
    Attica Zoological Park

    Attica Park, officially Attica Zoological Park, is a private zoo located in the suburb of Spata, approximately 20 kilometres east of Athens, Greece. It is the only zoo in Greece.

    1.8 km · private zoo in Spata, Greece · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Spata Training Centre

    The Spata Training Centre is the name given to AEK Athens' training complex, located in Spata near Spata International Airport. Also hosting the club's youth academy.

    1.5 km · training ground of AEK Athens in Spata, Greece · Wikipedia

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Attica Zoological Park

    The large, privately owned zoo started off as a bird park in 2000, and is still among the top ten largest bird parks in the world.

From Wikivoyage: Spáta, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Spáta

Airports
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH), 4 km · Santorini (JTR), 222 km · Chania (CHQ), 272 km
Stations
Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos", 4.2 km · Athens International Airport station, 4.1 km · Paiania-Kantza station, 4.5 km · Pallini station, 5.9 km · Athens International Airport Archaeological Collection, 4.3 km
  • Santorini Island → Spáta
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Souda → Spáta
    276 km · quickest by air, 3h 30m · €80–110
  • Thessaloniki → Spáta
    310 km · quickest by air, 3h 26m · €80–130
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Spáta

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 Spáta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    137 km
  2. 02
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    170 km
  3. 03
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    246 km
  4. 04
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    295 km
  5. 05
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    320 km

If you know how people move in Spáta – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Spáta

Spáta is 17 km from Athens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.