Piraeus
Piraeus is a locality in Piraeus Prefecture, Attica. Piraeus is situated nearby to the locality Plateia Ippodameias, as well as near Gouva Vavoula.- Type: Locality with 164,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Athens, Greece
- Also known as: “Municipality of Pireas” and “Piraeus Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Railway Museum Athens and Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
Railway Museum Athens
Museum
The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978. It was located at 4 Siokou Street in Athens, but the collection has since been moved to the former MPR Depot site in Lefka, Piraeus in 2019 (not to be confused with the Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus.
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
Museum
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.
Municipal Theater of Piraeus
Theater building
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Piraeus Municipal Theatre is a neoclassical building built on plans by the architect Ioannis Lazarimos and was opened on 9 April 1895. The theatre has a 600-seat capacity and is located in the centremost place of Piraeus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piraeus and Palaio Faliro.
Piraeus
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The Piraeus is the ancient port of Athens, and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.
Palaio Faliro
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Palaio Faliro is a municipality in Attica on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of Athens.
Nikaia
Suburb
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Nikaia, known before 1940 as Kokkinia, is a town and a suburb of the Piraeus agglomeration, in the southwestern part of the Athens urban area, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis in the regional unit of Piraeus, and it is the seat and a municipal unit of the municipality.
Piraeus
- Categories: municipality of Greece and municipality
- Location: Piraeus Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Piraeus” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Пірэй”
- Catalan: “Municipalitat del Pireu”
- Cebuano: “Dimos Piraeus”
- Czech: “Pireus”
- Dutch: “Piraeus”
- French: “dème du Pirée”
- French: “Dème du Pirée”
- French: “Pireas”
- German: “Pireas”
- Greek: “Δήμος Πειραιά”
- Greek: “Δήμος Πειραιώς”
- Greek: “Πειραιώς”
- Ido: “Municipo Pireus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pireus”
- Polish: “Pireus”
- Russian: “община Пирей”
- Russian: “Пирей”
- Slovak: “Pireus”
- Slovenian: “Občina Pireas”
- Slovenian: “Občina Pirej”
- Slovenian: “Pireas”
- Swedish: “Dimos Piraeus”
- Turkish: “Pire belediyesi”
- Ukrainian: “ном Пірей”
- Ukrainian: “Пірей (ном)”
- Vietnamese: “Pireas”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Piraeus”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Piraeus Theoxenia Hotel and Piraeus Harbour.
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