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Athens Advantages
Its true that ones finances and time constraints play a big role in these decisions and oft times a direct flight into Athens is the most economical and simple way to enter Greece.
There are many advantages to an Athens arrival point. For example;
- Immediate access to some of Greece's most famous treasures such as the Parthenon and the National Archeological Museum,
- Immediate access from Athens' ports of Piraeus, Lavrion and Rafina to ferry's for Crete, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese islands.
- Immediate access to Greek domestic flights departing frequently for many of the more popular Greek islands and larger cities such as Crete, Rhodes, Mykonos, Santorini, Ios, Kalamata, Volos and many more.
- Athens is also the Nexus of all Greek national train and bus routes. The train runs all the way via Thessaloniki to Europe and has a eastern branch to Turkey as well. An express service was added last year. The train also heads southwest to the Peloponnese and pretty much, where terrain permits attempts to encircles the 'island of Pelops' wherein lie some pretty famous places to visit including Olympia, Sparta and Mycenae.
- Athens also boasts an impressive bus service to just about anywhere on the mainland. Buses are modern, sometimes have TV and most have toilets. They are cheap too.
- Getting to Greece from Turkey
Athens is an ideal choice and very large percentage (14,000,000) of travelers to Greece choose it yearly!
Airports in Greece
Greece has many airports.
Athens , Alexandroupolis , Astypalea, Chania (Crete), Chios, Heraklion (Crete), Ikaria, Ioannina, Kalamata, Karpathos, Kassos, Kastellorizo, Kastoria, Kavala, Kefalonia, Kerkyra (Corfu), Kythira, Kos, Kozani, Limnos, Leros, Milos, Mykonos, Mytilini (Lesvos), Naxos, Paros, Preveza-Aktion, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini (Thira), Sitia, Skiathos, Skyros, Syros, Thessaloniki, Zakynthos (Zante), For more information on airports in Greece
