Greece Travel Guía

In car
Many drivers or motorcyclists can bring in or leave the city route the National Way 1, the main route to the north of Athens. Make sure of its faculties in the volnate and its knowledge is to drive. The main ways are indicated by blue signs. The traffic drives to the right. The maximum speed limit for cars is 120kph on freeways, 110kph out of very urbanized areas and 50kph in very urbanized areas. It is illegal to take the store gasoline (venzeni) in the vehicle. The minimal age for the conduction is 18 years. The thongs must be taken and the children under ten must sit down in the rear seat. The sorrow for drinking and driving on the limit is severe (the legal maximum alcohol to the blood proportion is 0.05 %, on 0.08 % it is considered to be a crime). A national driving license is satisfactory for nationalists of European Union but the nationalists of other countries can need an International Permission of Driver allow to nationalists of European Union in the possession of a Green card, which gives the insurance of third internationally, import a certified foreign car, the trailer, the motorcycle, the ship or the tow for a maximum of six months (or up to 15 months for the fees). A Green card is more a legal demand in Greece for the visits of less than three months, nevertheless, without it, the insurance is limited by the legal minimal covering. The qualifications of property of a motorcar must be taken in any moment.

In bus
You also can put Athens in bus. Several European cities have bus programs to Greece. There they were very famous in the past, but they have decomposed from the civil war in the Balkans. They begin to return to the stage. The buses in general come to the city of Athens, close to the Larissis train station. Great offer of numerous agencies of quite equipped buses. There are two terminals of inter-city main buses: Terminal To, on 7km Omonia northwest in Kifissou 100 and B Terminal, 5km to the north Omonia de Liossion. International cars of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey come and leave the Peloponeso train station.

For Plane
Athens international airport open (Eleftherios Venizelos) on Wednesday, March 29, 2001. The airport is placed between the cities of Markopoulo, Koropi, Spata and Loutsa, approximately 27 kilometers the North-East of the city and 40 minutes of center of city of Athens. This is where all the international flights of every country come. Many flights for the rest of Greece and some islands are available every day of Athens, Greece. The Airport was developed by the private public society. Greece supports 55 % of the parts. It is considered to be one of the most expensive airports in Europe since its restaurants and snack bars have to pay a very high rent. The airport is designed to be improved during the years to accommodate the increase of the trip in plane. The tax of the exit is included in ticket prices. You can put yourself to the airport for taking the direct meter of the Sintagma or taking the Suburban rail, which also joins the airport. Otherwise, take the airport X95 the Sintagma they express the Othonos bus in, opposite to the Parliament (1 hour) or the bus X96 of Plateia Karaïskaki in Piraeus. The taxis can take longer than the public transport if the traffic is bad.

By Ship
Athens is handled by the main port in Pireás (Piraeus). The facilities in the port consist of the slogan, ATM (cash dispensers), the banks, bureaux where restaurants, taxis change, cars rent and great ship of sale of travel agencies labels. Of Piraeus, there are regular crossings to ports in the following areas of Greece: The Dodecaneso, Ciclades, Peloponeso, Saronic Golfo Island, Crete, Samos, Island nonremain egeas and Greece of the north. For the last information of the exit, gather a weekly program of transport of the tourist office in central Athens. They force the change of programs often and past fashionable services.

Magnificent, rapid and comfortable ferries go in ship of Italy to Greece. They do trips with a car or a possible and easy motorbike. The ferries that leave Brindisi, Bari, Venise and Ancona come to the port of Igoumenitsa, which is placed in the south of Greece, or the Patras port, 3 hours in car or the bus of Athens. Weekly services go to Cyprus and Israel de Pireo. The ships to Turkey leave only the Greek Islands. The port taxes are included in ticket prices and they change according to the destination.

For Train
The trains (DARE) they join Athens to other cities in Greece. Nevertheless, I did not hope for the variety and the railroad complexity that you in general find in other European countries; the system of national railroad is poor in Greece, in effect having only two train lines that both travel on the west. Towards the city of Patra in Peloponessus (GR-8A, E94) and to the north, towards the second biggest city of Greece, Thessaloniki (GR-1, E75), properly located close one to other on 1km North-East of Plateia Omonias. The trains also leave Larisis for Turkey, Bulgaria, the Antigua Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia and Europe of the north. Athens is also it is the bucket of the National Greek System Of railroad.