A port-city with a fascinating ancient history, vibrant, with sights worth seeing. A city that grew and gained power, becoming an important commercial, cultural, and industrial center throughout the centuries. In its welcoming embrace you will find daily thousands of people travelling to the Aegean Sea and Crete, and others visiting Piraeus for food, coffee, entertainment, shopping, walks with a sea view, visits to the museums or around the neoclassical buildings that stand as irrefutable evidence of its glamorous past.

Kastella

This breezy neighbourhood perched on top of a hill feels a little like an Athenian version of Lisbon, Valparaiso or San Francisco, with winding stairways and colourful turn-of-the-century buildings.

Mikrolimano

 Greek for ‘little port’, Mikrolimano is nestled beneath Kastella. Its biggest draw is the Michelin-starred Varoulko Seaside, presided over by celebrity chef Lefteris Lazarou. If that’s out of your budget, the cute houses that lead up the hill and the bright fish tavernas that ring the port are an aesthetic delight.

Marina Zea

Marina Zea has the relaxed air of a well-to-do port town, with fancy yachts moored alongside lively cafés, restaurants, and bars. This was the main shipbuilding area in antiquity; if you keep your eyes peeled you can still see evidence of ancient Greek and Roman fortifications. The most impressive are the ancient ‘ship sheds’ where hundreds of warships were housed, part of a massive naval base that was recently uncovered by underwater archaeologists.