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Mount Olympus
Highest mountain in Greece

Mount Olympus

Mount Olympus is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km (50 mi) southwest from Thessaloniki.

Plan a trip to Mount Olympus→From Thessaloniki

Mount Olympus has 52 peaks and deep gorges.

The highest peak, Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917.727 metres (9,572.60 ft) and is the highest peak in Greece, and one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence.

Get in

Getting to Mount Olympus

KTEL Intercity Buses operate (10 daily - €9.30) from Thessaloniki to Litochoro with an intermediate stop at Katerini. The bus schedule can be found at the website of the Thessaloniki station. The main line of the Greek railway system that connects Athens with Thessaloniki passes through Katerini. Even the fast Intercity trains make a stop at Katerini railway station.

See

Worth seeing

Olympus' highest peak is

  1. 01
    Mýtikas at 2918
  2. 02
    Agios Dionysios Monastery

    In the Enipeas river gorge.

  3. 03
    Ourlias Waterfalls
  4. 04
    Olympos National Park Information Center

    The most common itinerary is the international hiking path E4: Litochoro, Prionia (1,100 m), Spileos Agapitos (2,100 m), Skala, Mytikas (2,918 m).

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.