Peiraios Street, Athens

#173 among attractions in Athens

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Peiraios Street is a main road in Athens, Greece linking the center of the city with the port of Piraeus. It is part of the system of national roads, as number 56. Its length spans 10 km. Major intersections and an interchange include Karaoli Dimitriou Street, Kifissou Avenue, the Konstantinopouleos Avenue junction, Apostolou Pavlou with Vasileiou tou Megalou, Ermou, Thermopylon, Sofokleous, Deligiorgi and Sokratous Street. The island areas of the road are aligned with trees, and historically the avenue runs over parts of the north wall and ancient road of Phaleron. ()

Local name: Οδός Πειραιώς Coordinates: 37°57'29"N, 23°41'5"E

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Peiraios Street – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Karaiskakis Stadium, Evgenidio Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athinon Arena.

1.4 miSW
Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums
Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus
35 min walk • The Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, commonly referred to as the Karaiskakis Stadium, is a football stadium in Piraeus, Attica, Greece, and the home ground of the Piraeus football club Olympiacos.
1.4 miSE
Museum, Observatories and planetariums, Science museum
Evgenidio Foundation, Athens
36 min walk • The Evgenidio Foundation was established in 1956 in Athens, Greece implementing the will of the late Greek benefactor Eugenios Eugenidis, who died in April 1954. It has the form of private legal entity under law.
1.3 miS
Arts center with a park and opera house
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
32 min walk • The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a complex in the bay of Faliro in Athens which includes new facilities for the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera, as well as the 210,000 m² Stavros Niarchos Park.
1.4 miNE
Theater
Athinon Arena, Athens
37 min walk • Athens Arena is a grand music venue in Athens, Greece. It was built in 2004 as a large-scale convention centre and concert hall, designed to host up to 3,000 people seated. It was owned by the Papatheoharis Group. Artists featured in the Arena are Marinella, Antonis Remos, Sakis Rouvas and Anna Vissi.
1.2 miSE
Museum, Art museum
Tactual Museum of Athens, Athens
31 min walk • The Tactual Museum of Athens is a museum for the visually impaired in Kallithea, Athens, Greece. It was founded in 1984 by the Kallithea-based association Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece to allow visually impaired people to become familiarised with the cultural heritage of Greece.
1.5 miNE
Neighbourhood
Rouf, Athens
38 min walk • Rouf is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It is located to the west of the Athens centre, between Piraeus and Petrou Ralli Avenue. Rouf is named after a Bavarian businessman who, during Otto's reign, bought large areas in this location to make a farm. When the railway passed through this area, the local station was named Rouf.
0.5 miNE
Museum
Hellenic Cosmos, Athens
13 min walk • Hellenic Cosmos is a modern Cultural Centre and Museum in Athens, Greece which attempts to unravel the complex issues of Hellenism. Many current cultural events take place in the centre, including the annual Plisskën music festival.
0.8 miE
Area
Kallithea, Athens
22 min walk • 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.
1.2 miNW
Area
Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens
30 min walk • 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.
1.4 miSW
Sport venue, Sport, Basketball
Sef, Piraeus
37 min walk • The Peace and Friendship Stadium, commonly known by its acronym SEF, is a multi-purpose indoor arena that is located in Piraeus, on the coastal zone of Attica, Greece.
1.2 miS
Sport venue, Sport
Faliro Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre, Athens
31 min walk • The Faliro Olympic Beach Volleyball Centre is a stadium in the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex that hosted the beach volleyball competition for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.