--- title: "Spáta – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Spáta, Greece: Spata is a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of downtown Athens, Greece. Nearby: Attica Zoological Park, Spata Training Centre. Every way…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/spata" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/spata.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Spata_airview.jpg" --- Town in the Athens metropolitan area, Greece · Attica # Spáta Spata is a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of downtown Athens, Greece. ![Spáta](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Spata_airview.jpg) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spata), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Zoological_Park) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spata_Training_Centre) 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. 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Spata), 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/santorini-island-to-spata) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Santorini+Island&to=Sp%C3%A1ta) - Souda → Spáta 276 km · quickest by air, 3h 30m · €80–110 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/souda-to-spata) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Souda&to=Sp%C3%A1ta) - Thessaloniki → Spáta 310 km · quickest by air, 3h 26m · €80–130 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/thessaloniki-to-spata) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Thessaloniki&to=Sp%C3%A1ta) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sp%C3%A1ta) 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. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 137 km 2. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 170 km 3. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 246 km 4. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 295 km 5. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 320 km If you know how people move in Spáta – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cspata&title=Sp%C3%A1ta&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fspata), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Spáta Spáta is 17 km from [Athens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/athens), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Pallini](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pallini) suburb of Athens, Greece 5.5 km - [Paiania](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/paiania) modern town in Attica region, Greece 5.8 km - [Spata-Artemida Municipality](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/spata-artemida-municipality) municipality in Attica region, Greece 3.8 km - [Pikermi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pikermi) town of eastern Attica, Greece 4 km [The place page for Spáta](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/spata) [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/spata, 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. 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