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Our Favorite places in Keratea
The recomendations are made based on our own personal exrepience of the places we recomend. Is the usuall places we visited when we want to eat, or to take a walk, or to have fun with our family and friends.
Here you will also find nearby farmacies, nearest health centers and closest archeological sites.
Cozy greek restaurant, 5 min walk from the arartment. Comfort food for late dinner, or a nice lunch in their backyard garden.
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Mplexame
9 DrosopoulouCozy greek restaurant, 5 min walk from the arartment. Comfort food for late dinner, or a nice lunch in their backyard garden.
Nice meat restaurant, you wiil enjoy the famous greek souvlaki in meny versions. This is also very near to the apartment, only 5 min walk.
ΓΕΥΣΕΙΣ ΚΡΕΑΤΩΝ
1 DiogenousNice meat restaurant, you wiil enjoy the famous greek souvlaki in meny versions. This is also very near to the apartment, only 5 min walk.
The Greek version or a local italian resturant, but also with Greek plates. Pizza, Pasta, Salads, but also roast lamb, pork chops etc.
La Rustica
6 KekroposThe Greek version or a local italian resturant, but also with Greek plates. Pizza, Pasta, Salads, but also roast lamb, pork chops etc.
Another great meat restaurant. Best chicken gyros in town, also amazing burgers!!! Try it!!!
Το Σπιτικό
27 Athinon SouniouAnother great meat restaurant. Best chicken gyros in town, also amazing burgers!!! Try it!!!
Super Market "Γαλαξίας"
15-19 Athinon SouniouThe nearest Super Market, for all your daily needs.
The closest farmacy to the aparment, with extented working hours, you will probably find what you are looking for, the moment you need it.
FARMAKEIO ASIMINA PYLARINOU
44 Vasilissis SofiasThe closest farmacy to the aparment, with extented working hours, you will probably find what you are looking for, the moment you need it.
Φουρνος Ρουμπανη
36 Vasilissis SofiasThe closest and the best Bakery in town.
Nice little coffe bar with amazing exterior scenery, great cocktails, and amazing music!!!!
YOLO CAFE
2 KanariNice little coffe bar with amazing exterior scenery, great cocktails, and amazing music!!!!
Very beautiful Pool Cafe-Bar. You will enjoy your breakfast by the pool, and at night some serious greek dancing!!!!
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Σούμα Cafe-Bar
5-7 Vasilissis FriderikisVery beautiful Pool Cafe-Bar. You will enjoy your breakfast by the pool, and at night some serious greek dancing!!!!
Keratea's most famous winery. Multi awarded with emfasis to local varieties. Find it and you will enjoy some amazing local wines. let Stamatis or Antonis to know that you are our visitors and you will get a trit from them.
MYLONAS WINERY
3 IppokratousKeratea's most famous winery. Multi awarded with emfasis to local varieties. Find it and you will enjoy some amazing local wines. let Stamatis or Antonis to know that you are our visitors and you will get a trit from them.
Wine bar. Cozy place with a beautifull yard to relax, listen music and enjoy your wine.
Οινοποιειο Παπανικολαου
Vasiliou PapanikolaouWine bar. Cozy place with a beautifull yard to relax, listen music and enjoy your wine.
Easy take away solution if you are tired and hungry. 2 min from the apartment, if you cant wait or in just 20 min your meal is at your doorstep by the take away service.
Pizza Fan Κερατέα
1 KodrouEasy take away solution if you are tired and hungry. 2 min from the apartment, if you cant wait or in just 20 min your meal is at your doorstep by the take away service.
The closest Health Center, on the road to the airport, the firstaid stop before your need for a major hospital.
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Kentro Igias Markopoulo
The closest Health Center, on the road to the airport, the firstaid stop before your need for a major hospital.
kouvarasequestrianclub.com
if you love horses, these is the place!!!!
Also with a caffereria, a restaurant and a massive play groung!!!
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Ιππικός Όμιλος Κουβαρά-Kouvaras Equestrian Club
Αgioi Fanοirioikouvarasequestrianclub.com
if you love horses, these is the place!!!!
Also with a caffereria, a restaurant and a massive play groung!!!
Beach no1
fully equipped beach bar in a unique scenery, in the Kaki Thalassa bay, with crystal clear waters
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Beach Bar :: Vraxos ::
Beach no1
fully equipped beach bar in a unique scenery, in the Kaki Thalassa bay, with crystal clear waters
Beach no2
The place where my kids learn to swim, a very special place for me, with a very beautiful beach bar. If you are lucky, i will be there to prerare the cocktails for you, in that beach bar!!!
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Cocoloco Beach Bar
Beach no2
The place where my kids learn to swim, a very special place for me, with a very beautiful beach bar. If you are lucky, i will be there to prerare the cocktails for you, in that beach bar!!!
Restaurant Litsa
Two words...... MUST VISIT
Tο Κοράλι
Seafood at its finest
On your way to Sounio
This is a guide of the interesting things you will find on your way to Sounio, the Temple of Posidon, our favorite place to be, one of the top places to enjoy the sunset in Greece.
Beach no3
Just outside Keratea one more place with an amazing beach. Your kids will love it. With a beach bar, a nice taverna, nice place to spend your day...!!!
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Paralia Vromopousi
Beach no3
Just outside Keratea one more place with an amazing beach. Your kids will love it. With a beach bar, a nice taverna, nice place to spend your day...!!!
Παραλία Τσόνιμα
Beach no4
Discover it... our kids love this beach!!!
Beach no5
quiet, out of grid, not many tourists
many more beaches around to discover
Κουτάλα Mικρολίμανου
Beach no5
quiet, out of grid, not many tourists
many more beaches around to discover
Lighthouse Vrysaki
nice place to visit, not many people know about this Lighthouse.
THE TAX
One of the best fish restaurants on your way to Sounio. check it out!!!
The Lavrio Port Marina Sea Front. A beautiful place to have a walk, to eat your ice cream, visit cozi tavernas, bars, coffe shops. Wait for the sun to fall if it is very hot, to enjoy your walk.
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Lavrion Marina
KountouriotiThe Lavrio Port Marina Sea Front. A beautiful place to have a walk, to eat your ice cream, visit cozi tavernas, bars, coffe shops. Wait for the sun to fall if it is very hot, to enjoy your walk.
CaVo PouDa Lavrio
Leoforos Miki TheodorakiJust over the Lavrio Port, poll bar, coffe, music, PARTY!!!
Beach no6
The place i grow up as a kid, learn to swim, play in any corner.
Amazing crystal clear waters, shallow beach, perfect for kids
A really beautifull untouched place to be...
Passalimani
Beach no6
The place i grow up as a kid, learn to swim, play in any corner.
Amazing crystal clear waters, shallow beach, perfect for kids
A really beautifull untouched place to be...
Beach no7
Surfers place to be especially in August, when the the northern breeze blows.
Several more beaches to discover around
Παραλία Ασημάκη
Beach no7
Surfers place to be especially in August, when the the northern breeze blows.
Several more beaches to discover around
Amazing scenery, a beautiful place, just opposite the Temple of poseidon. A last stop before visit the greatness.
Ekklisia Agios Ioannis Prodromos
Amazing scenery, a beautiful place, just opposite the Temple of poseidon. A last stop before visit the greatness.
The Sanctuary at Sounion The Cape of Sounion was, in antiquity, the southern boundary of the territory of the city-state of Athens. At Cape Sounion, the Athenians built a sanctuary surrounded by a wall. The sanctuary consisted of temples dedicated to the gods of the city. The principal temple was dedicated to Poseidon, the god of the sea. This is a Doric temple and is the only temple which has been preserved until today. It is located at a height of 73 metres above the sea level. The second most important temple was dedicated to Goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and the goddess after whom the city took its name. In the outdoor space of the sanctuary, there were erected statues, votives dedicated to the gods, which were offered either by the city or by eminent city dwellers of Athens. One of them is known as the "Sounion Kouros" (Kouros= young man) and is exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum. In ancient times, the temples and statues were not all white; they were decorated in colour.
The Construction of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion we see today – Historical background The Persian Wars stand out as an important milestone in the history of the Greeks. The Persians attempted two campaigns against the Greeks by gathering their army with fighters recruited from every corner of their empire: the one campaign was led in 490 BC and the other one ten years later, in 480 BC. The Greek state-formations, the city-states and kingdoms, allied with themselves in order to repulse the Persian invader. Both campaigns ended in Persian defeat, despite the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Persian army. The united Greeks emerged victorious because they fought for their freedom. Freedom is a concept fundamental to the ancient Greek civilization. The Persians and their enslaved peoples fought merely in fear of the Persian king and did not know what freedom meant. In the battles of the Persian wars, the Athenians and Spartans were the leading force. The Greek victories in the Persian wars stimulated the sense of national pride and self-confidence and boosted the Greek civilisation.
During the second Persian campaign, the military leadership of the city-state of Athens considered that the Athenians had to leave the city and organise their defence elsewhere. Thereby, the Persians invaded the deserted city and plundered it. They burned the sacred temples of the Acropolis and Sounion. The Athenians, from afar, could see the flames from the fire consuming their city rising up in the sky. However, they were not intimidated, because they knew that the actual power of their city was their naval supremacy and, above all, the soul of its people. After their victory, the Athenians returned to their city to realise the magnitude of the disaster.
It was then that Athens takes on the leading role among the Greeks. The protagonist in the political life of the city was first Kimon and then Pericles. It was Pericles who promoted democratic institutions. With his reforms, the citizens were increasingly involved in the administration of their city. The power of aristocracy was limited. The period during which Pericles ruled over the political life of Athens, namely from 461 up to 429 BC, is known as “the Golden Age of Pericles”. In Greek it is called “the Golden Century”, although it actually lasted for only thirty years. On Pericles's initiative, the ruined temples of the Acropolis and, Sounion were reconstructed. The temples that we can see today on the Acropolis Hill as well as the temple of Poseidon at Sounion were erected in the context of the Pericles's building programme. The Temple of Poseidon we see today was completed about forty years after the second Persian invasion, namely around 440 BC.
The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur The cape of Sounion is associated with the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. This myth is dated back to a thousand years before the temple of Poseidon was built.
Circa 1450 BC, Athens was a kingdom, like all the other kingdoms at that time. On the hill of the Acropolis and in the place of Parthenon, there was a palace, where the king, Aegeas, lived with his family. At that time, Athens was forced to pay blood-tax to Crete, which ruled the seas. Every nine years, seven young men and seven young women were chosen by lot and sent to Crete to be given as food to the Minotaur, a horrible monster, having a bull’s head and a tail and a man’s body.Theseus, Aegeus’s son, offered to be included in the group of the young people who would go to Crete. He eventually managed to kill the Minotaur, relieving Athens from the toll. The Minotaur was confined in the Labyrinth, a mazelike network of passages. Theseus was able to spot the Minotaur and kill him. How did he manage, however, to find his way out of the Labyrinth? Ariadne, Minos’s daughter, who had fallen in love with Theseus, provided him with a skein of thread. She had advised him to fasten its one end to the entrance and unfold the thread as he went along the corridors of the Labyrinth. So, Theseus, following the course of the thread, was able to find the exit.
When he left the island to go back to Athens, he took Ariadne with him. They were two young people in love. Theseus, however, changed his mind and abandoned her on Naxos, an Aegean island. According to a version of the myth, he left Ariadne because he thought of another young girl in Athens. On Naxos, Dionysus, the God of wine and drama, encountered Ariadne, fell in love with her and married her.
The sails of the ship which carried the young people to Crete were black due to their tragic destination. King Aegeas had asked his son, Theseus, if he had managed to kill the Minotaur and return home, to change the black sails of the ship and put up white ones. After Theseus had killed the Minotaur and took his way back, he forgot to change the sails. His father, catching glimpse of the black sails, killed himself by falling into the deep sea from a cliff at Cape Sounion, where he used to sit all day long gazing at the horizon and hoping for his son to return alive. Ever since then, the sea in which he drowned is called the Aegean Sea.
Visit-related Information
Phone number: +30 22920 39363
Visiting Hours: from 09.30 up till sunset. One should take into account that the last admission is at about 19.45.
Google Map
Access: 1 hour and 15 minutes’ distance from the centre of Athens by road.
Admission fee: € 4
For children and young people up to 18 years of age admission is free.
For students from the European Union member states admission is free.
For students from countries outside the European Union: € 2
For visitors over 65 years of age: € 2
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Poseidontemplet - Sounio
The Sanctuary at Sounion The Cape of Sounion was, in antiquity, the southern boundary of the territory of the city-state of Athens. At Cape Sounion, the Athenians built a sanctuary surrounded by a wall. The sanctuary consisted of temples dedicated to the gods of the city. The principal temple was dedicated to Poseidon, the god of the sea. This is a Doric temple and is the only temple which has been preserved until today. It is located at a height of 73 metres above the sea level. The second most important temple was dedicated to Goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and the goddess after whom the city took its name. In the outdoor space of the sanctuary, there were erected statues, votives dedicated to the gods, which were offered either by the city or by eminent city dwellers of Athens. One of them is known as the "Sounion Kouros" (Kouros= young man) and is exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum. In ancient times, the temples and statues were not all white; they were decorated in colour.
The Construction of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion we see today – Historical background The Persian Wars stand out as an important milestone in the history of the Greeks. The Persians attempted two campaigns against the Greeks by gathering their army with fighters recruited from every corner of their empire: the one campaign was led in 490 BC and the other one ten years later, in 480 BC. The Greek state-formations, the city-states and kingdoms, allied with themselves in order to repulse the Persian invader. Both campaigns ended in Persian defeat, despite the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Persian army. The united Greeks emerged victorious because they fought for their freedom. Freedom is a concept fundamental to the ancient Greek civilization. The Persians and their enslaved peoples fought merely in fear of the Persian king and did not know what freedom meant. In the battles of the Persian wars, the Athenians and Spartans were the leading force. The Greek victories in the Persian wars stimulated the sense of national pride and self-confidence and boosted the Greek civilisation.
During the second Persian campaign, the military leadership of the city-state of Athens considered that the Athenians had to leave the city and organise their defence elsewhere. Thereby, the Persians invaded the deserted city and plundered it. They burned the sacred temples of the Acropolis and Sounion. The Athenians, from afar, could see the flames from the fire consuming their city rising up in the sky. However, they were not intimidated, because they knew that the actual power of their city was their naval supremacy and, above all, the soul of its people. After their victory, the Athenians returned to their city to realise the magnitude of the disaster.
It was then that Athens takes on the leading role among the Greeks. The protagonist in the political life of the city was first Kimon and then Pericles. It was Pericles who promoted democratic institutions. With his reforms, the citizens were increasingly involved in the administration of their city. The power of aristocracy was limited. The period during which Pericles ruled over the political life of Athens, namely from 461 up to 429 BC, is known as “the Golden Age of Pericles”. In Greek it is called “the Golden Century”, although it actually lasted for only thirty years. On Pericles's initiative, the ruined temples of the Acropolis and, Sounion were reconstructed. The temples that we can see today on the Acropolis Hill as well as the temple of Poseidon at Sounion were erected in the context of the Pericles's building programme. The Temple of Poseidon we see today was completed about forty years after the second Persian invasion, namely around 440 BC.
The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur The cape of Sounion is associated with the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. This myth is dated back to a thousand years before the temple of Poseidon was built.
Circa 1450 BC, Athens was a kingdom, like all the other kingdoms at that time. On the hill of the Acropolis and in the place of Parthenon, there was a palace, where the king, Aegeas, lived with his family. At that time, Athens was forced to pay blood-tax to Crete, which ruled the seas. Every nine years, seven young men and seven young women were chosen by lot and sent to Crete to be given as food to the Minotaur, a horrible monster, having a bull’s head and a tail and a man’s body.Theseus, Aegeus’s son, offered to be included in the group of the young people who would go to Crete. He eventually managed to kill the Minotaur, relieving Athens from the toll. The Minotaur was confined in the Labyrinth, a mazelike network of passages. Theseus was able to spot the Minotaur and kill him. How did he manage, however, to find his way out of the Labyrinth? Ariadne, Minos’s daughter, who had fallen in love with Theseus, provided him with a skein of thread. She had advised him to fasten its one end to the entrance and unfold the thread as he went along the corridors of the Labyrinth. So, Theseus, following the course of the thread, was able to find the exit.
When he left the island to go back to Athens, he took Ariadne with him. They were two young people in love. Theseus, however, changed his mind and abandoned her on Naxos, an Aegean island. According to a version of the myth, he left Ariadne because he thought of another young girl in Athens. On Naxos, Dionysus, the God of wine and drama, encountered Ariadne, fell in love with her and married her.
The sails of the ship which carried the young people to Crete were black due to their tragic destination. King Aegeas had asked his son, Theseus, if he had managed to kill the Minotaur and return home, to change the black sails of the ship and put up white ones. After Theseus had killed the Minotaur and took his way back, he forgot to change the sails. His father, catching glimpse of the black sails, killed himself by falling into the deep sea from a cliff at Cape Sounion, where he used to sit all day long gazing at the horizon and hoping for his son to return alive. Ever since then, the sea in which he drowned is called the Aegean Sea.
Visit-related Information
Phone number: +30 22920 39363
Visiting Hours: from 09.30 up till sunset. One should take into account that the last admission is at about 19.45.
Google Map
Access: 1 hour and 15 minutes’ distance from the centre of Athens by road.
Admission fee: € 4
For children and young people up to 18 years of age admission is free.
For students from the European Union member states admission is free.
For students from countries outside the European Union: € 2
For visitors over 65 years of age: € 2
beach no8
under the Temple of Poseidon, feel the energy of the place by swiming in that amazing beach.
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Paralia Souniou
beach no8
under the Temple of Poseidon, feel the energy of the place by swiming in that amazing beach.
On your way Home from the western coastal road
This guide will bring you back home, after your visit to the Temple of Poseidon. Moving West now you will find interesting places, more beautiful beaches and amazing food
For me and my family THE BEST RESTAURANT in the region. Sit down, ask for Litsa and try to remember everything of these unforgetable experience!!!!
Acrogiali
For me and my family THE BEST RESTAURANT in the region. Sit down, ask for Litsa and try to remember everything of these unforgetable experience!!!!
A very small church dedicated to saint Peter, overlooked from the majestic Temple of Poseidon. Discover the beautie of it.
p.s. beach no 9
Ξωκλήσσι Αγίου Πέτρου - Σούνιο
6932 Leof. Athinon SouniouA very small church dedicated to saint Peter, overlooked from the majestic Temple of Poseidon. Discover the beautie of it.
p.s. beach no 9
Beach no 10
Under the Cape Sounio Hotel, with an amazing view to the Temple of Poseidon. Dive and enjoy.!!!
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Cape Sounio Public Beach Access
6932 Leof. Athinon SouniouBeach no 10
Under the Cape Sounio Hotel, with an amazing view to the Temple of Poseidon. Dive and enjoy.!!!
The place i work as a teenager to earn my fist money!!!!!!
Excellent fish food!!!!
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H ΜΑΡΙΔΑ
The place i work as a teenager to earn my fist money!!!!!!
Excellent fish food!!!!
beach no11
The Coastal Basin of Lairine is located in the Municipality of Lavreotiki, at the Bay of Legrines, and has an area of approximately 132 ha (EKBY Scientific Delimitation, 2017). In the coastal zone there are rudimentary moving dunes (habitat type 2110) with characteristic species Elytrigia juncea. More internally, the dunes are replaced by a belt of Pistacia lentiscus, in which there are growing perennials such as Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, Sarcocornia perennis and Suaeda vera (habitat type 1420).
Along the avenue there have been linear plantings of ornamental species. The wetland vegetation in the part of the wetland above the road has been mined but the restoration is feasible. The area falls under the Special Area of Conservation of the Natura 2000 network with code GR3000005 (Sounio - Patroklos island and coastal zone), and in the Important Bird Areas with code GR127 (Lavreotikis peninsula and Patroklos islet).
The Coastal Basin of Legaria under the new PMS (FEK 156 / A / 1-8-2014) is part of the special program, as the first priority, for delimitation, preparation of studies, financing of actions and projects for protection, rehabilitation, promotion and management. The institutional delimitation of the Coastal Legion Pond is pending in accordance with the Law on Biodiversity (N 3937/2011 Articles 13 and 20).
http://greekwetlands.biodiversity-info.gr/#
Παράκτιος Υγρότοπος Λεγραινών
beach no11
The Coastal Basin of Lairine is located in the Municipality of Lavreotiki, at the Bay of Legrines, and has an area of approximately 132 ha (EKBY Scientific Delimitation, 2017). In the coastal zone there are rudimentary moving dunes (habitat type 2110) with characteristic species Elytrigia juncea. More internally, the dunes are replaced by a belt of Pistacia lentiscus, in which there are growing perennials such as Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, Sarcocornia perennis and Suaeda vera (habitat type 1420).
Along the avenue there have been linear plantings of ornamental species. The wetland vegetation in the part of the wetland above the road has been mined but the restoration is feasible. The area falls under the Special Area of Conservation of the Natura 2000 network with code GR3000005 (Sounio - Patroklos island and coastal zone), and in the Important Bird Areas with code GR127 (Lavreotikis peninsula and Patroklos islet).
The Coastal Basin of Legaria under the new PMS (FEK 156 / A / 1-8-2014) is part of the special program, as the first priority, for delimitation, preparation of studies, financing of actions and projects for protection, rehabilitation, promotion and management. The institutional delimitation of the Coastal Legion Pond is pending in accordance with the Law on Biodiversity (N 3937/2011 Articles 13 and 20).
http://greekwetlands.biodiversity-info.gr/#
4th Legrena Beach
beach no12
hidden paradise...my fab place to be...
Kape Beach
beach no13
Castus Beach Bar
50 χλμ Leoforos Athinon Sounioubeach no14
The island beach bar
beach no15
Ακρογιάλι - Εστιατόριο
5 Leof. Athinon SouniouXHMA Restaurant
11 25is MartiouE.Venizelos statue
16 Leof. Athinon SouniouL Amico
17 Leof. Athinon SouniouΠαραλία Φώκαιας / Fokaia Beach
beach no16
Πάρκο Αναβύσσου
Hawaii Beach Bar
beach no16
Anavissos Marina
Athens Divers Club