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Paros and Naxos or Kythnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Milos, Kimolos, Folegandros and Sikinos (High Speed Vessels as well as ferries operated by Blue Star Ferries do not call at Kythnos, Kimolos and Sikinos) Seajets, Zante Ferries, Blue Star Ferries, Fast Ferries Year - Round Folegandros: Supejet, Superjet 2, Dionysios Solomos, Speedrunner Jet
Until the 3rd millennium BC, Piraeus was a rocky island connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year. It was then that the area was increasingly silted and flooding ceased, thus permanently connecting Piraeus to Attica and forming its ports, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia.
In 2004, Panagiotis ("Takis") Iliopoulos (1932–2022) and his son Marios founded Seajets, originally named Dolphin Sea Lines. [3]Today, it operates a fleet of 14 high speed vessels, [4] and 3 conventional Ro-Ro ferries which services routes from the ports of Piraeus and Rafina to several Cycladic islands.
Piraeus (Greek: Πειραιάς, Peiraias) is the name of two railway stations in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, approximately 9 km south-west of the centre of Athens.The southern building is an interchange station between Line 1 and Line 3 and is the present terminus of Athens Metro Line 1, formerly the Athens-Piraeus Railways Co that opened in 1869. [2]
The ruins of the Theatre of Zea , next to the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. The Archaeological Museum of Piraeus is a museum in Piraeus, a port city within the Athens urban area in Greece. It contains mainly sculptures, discovered in Piraeus and in the area of the Attic coast from Bronze Age to Roman times. [1]
Leros (Greek: Λέρος), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea.It lies 317 kilometres (197 miles; 171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by a nine-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight from Athens.
The Bay of Zea (Greek: Λιμένας Ζέας, romanized: Limenas Zeas), since Ottoman times and until recently known as Paşalimanı (Πασαλιμάνι), is a broad bay located at the eastern coast of the Piraeus peninsula in Attica, Greece. It hosted the swimming events at the 1896 Summer Olympics [1] held in Attica.
The Peace and Friendship Stadium is located in the Neo Faliro area of Piraeus municipality, on the coastal Poseidonos Avenue, and at the end of the Kifissou Avenue. It is 2 km away from the port of Piraeus. It sits on a major transportation hub, next to the Faliro metro station on Athens Metro Line 1, and the SEF tram stop.