Athens: Area

Places and attractions in the Area category

Voula

Voula is a southern suburb of Athens and former municipality in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Alimos

Alimos is a municipality in Attica, Greece. It was formed in 1968 comprising two settlements, the suburban seaside town of Kalamaki, and the inland community of Trachones. Alimos had 41,720 inhabitants in the 2011 census.

Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni

Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni is a municipality in the East Attica regional unit of Attica, Greece. The seat of the municipality is Voula. The municipality has an area of 10,450 km². The municipal unit has an area of 37,225 km².

Kallithea

Kallithea is the 8th largest municipality in Greece and the 4th biggest in the Athens urban area. Additionally, it is the 2nd most densely populated municipality in Greece, with 21,192/km2. The municipality has an area of 4.749 km2.

Cholargos

Holargos is a suburb of Athens, Greece, located northeast of the city center and about 6 kilometers away from Syntagma Square. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Papagou-Cholargos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 3.950 km2.

Nea Filadelfeia

Nea Filadelfeia is a city in Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Filadelfeia-Chalkidona, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 2.850 km².

Vyronas

Vyronas is a suburban town and a municipality in the southeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. The town is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous English poet and writer, who is a national hero of Greece.

Nea Smyrni

Nea Smyrni is a municipality and a southern suburb of Athens, Greece. At the 2011 census, it had 73,076 inhabitants.

Aigaleo

Aigaleo or Egaleo is a suburban municipality in the western part of Athens. It takes its name from Mount Aigaleo. Its population was 69,946 at the 2011 census.

Galatsi

Galatsi, called in Katharevousa Galatsion, is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. The municipality has an area of 4.026 km².

Ilioupoli

Ilioupoli is a suburban municipality in the southern part of the Attica. Its name is the modern form of the ancient name of Heliopolis in Egypt. Development of Ilioupoli started around 1924, when Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled there. Ilioupoli is twinned with Novi Sad and Larnaca.

Peristeri

Peristeri is a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. With 139,981 inhabitants, it is the seventh-largest municipality of Greece by population.

Agios Ioannis Rentis

Agios Ioannis Rentis is a suburb and a former municipality in the western part of the Piraeus agglomeration, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis, of which it is a municipal unit.

Palaio Faliro

Palaio Faliro is a coastal district and a municipality in the southern part of the Piraeus agglomeration, Greece. At the 2011 census it had 64,021 inhabitants.

Nea Ionia

Nea Ionia is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. It was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s as a part of the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

Ilion

Ilion is a suburb in west Athens, Greece. With 85,000 inhabitants, it is one of the largest suburbs of Athens.

Chalandri

Chalandri is a suburb in the northern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is a municipality of the Attica region.

Petroupoli

Petroupoli is a suburb in the western part of Athens. Petroupoli was part of the community of Nea Liosia until 1946, when it became a separate community. It was elevated to municipality status in 1972.

Irakleio

Irakleio is a suburb in the northeastern part of the Attica agglomeration, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region.

Agia Paraskevi

Agia Paraskevi is a suburb and a municipality in the northeastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is part of the North Athens regional unit.

Paiania

Paiania is a town and a municipality in East Attica, Greece. It is an eastern suburb of Athens, located east of Mount Hymettus. It is 11 km east of Athens city centre.

Glyfada

Glyfada is a suburb in South Athens located in the Athens Riviera along the Athens coast. It is situated in the southern parts of the Athens' Urban Area. The area stretches from the foot of the Hymettus mountain to the Saronic Gulf. It is the largest of Athens' southern suburbs.