Dásos
District of Chaïdári
Attica - Greece

Daphni Monastery

Dafní or Daphní (Greek Δαφνί; Katharevousa Greek Δάφνιον, Dáfnion or Dáphnion) is an 11th-century Byzantine monastery 11 km north-west of downtown Athens in Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue. It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis. The forest covers about 15 to 20 km².

Located at 38.0131, 23.6358 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Athens Prefecture, Byzantine churches in Athens, Byzantine art, Greek Orthodox monasteries, World Heritage Sites in Greece, Cistercian monasteries, Christian monasteries in Greece

Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall

The Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall is an indoor arena in Nikaia, near Piraeus. It hosted the weightlifting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The venue was officially opened on August 14, 2004, the day after the beginning of the Games. The building had a capacity of 5,100, though only 3,500 seats are publicly available for the games.

Located at 37.9706, 23.6339 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Indoor arenas in Greece, 2004 Summer Olympic venues, Sports venues in Greece, Olympic weightlifting venues

Hellenic Coast Guard

The Hellenic Coast Guard (Greek Λιμενικό Σώμα-Ελληνική Ακτοφυλακή - Limeniko Soma-Elliniki Aktofylaki - lit. "Harbor Corps-Hellenic Coast Guard") is the national coast guard of Greece. Like most other coast guards, it is a paramilitary organization that can support the Hellenic Navy in wartime, but resides under separate civilian control in times of peace. It was founded in 1919 by an Act of Parliament (N. 1753/1919) and the legal framework for its function was reformed in 1927.

Located at 38.0368, 23.5854 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Hellenic Coast Guard, 1919 establishments in Greece

Platonic Academy

The Academy was founded by Plato (424/423 BC – 348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) studied there for twenty years (367 BC – 347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.

Located at 37.9925, 23.7081 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Plato, Neoplatonism, Hellenistic civilization, 380s BC establishments, Educational institutions established in the 4th century BC

Korydallos Prison

Korydallos Prison Complex is the main prison of Greece, housing both maximum-security men and women. It is located in Korydallos, Piraeus. Its most famous detainees are the November 17 terrorist members. Korydallos prison was also used as the place for the Greek junta trials in 1975. In November 1995, there was a massive riot, with inmates taking control of the prison for several days in a "battle" with prison guards and police. Nikolaos Dertilis was the last remaining junta member in jail.

Located at 37.9822, 23.6472 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Prisons in Greece, Piraeus (regional unit), Buildings and structures in Attica

Athens School of Fine Arts

The Athens School of Fine Arts (Greek: Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών), is Greece's premier art school whose main objective is to develop the artistic talents of its students.

Located at 37.962, 23.689 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Art schools in Greece, Greek art, Education in Athens, Culture in Athens, Educational institutions established in 1837, 1837 establishments in Greece

Egaleo (mountain)

Aegaleo (Greek Αιγάλεω, or Ποικίλον Όρος Aigáleo, Latin Aegaleus), also Aigaleo and Egaleo, is a mountain in Greece. It is situated west of Athens, southeast of Eleusis, east of the island of Salamis and northwest of Piraeus. Most of the mountain is rocky. It is shorter than Hymettus. Most of the forest is to its north where the monastery Daphni (Daphnion) is located. There is also a park in its northern reaches. This is a range which surrounds the tiny coast southwest of Chaidari.

Located at 38.0333, 23.65 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Geography of Attica, Mountains of Greece, Battle of Salamis

Piraeus Prefecture

Piraeus Prefecture (Greek: Νομός Πειραιά or Νομός Πειραιώς) was one of the prefectures of Greece. It was part of the Attica region and the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture. The capital of the prefecture was the city of Piraeus. As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the prefecture was abolished, and its territory was divided into two regional units: Islands and Piraeus.

Located at 37.95, 23.6333 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Prefectures of Greece, Geography of Attica

Agricultural University of Athens

The Agricultural University of Athens (Greek: Γεωπονικό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) is located in Athens, at the neighborhood of Votanikos.

Located at 37.9839, 23.7056 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Universities in Greece, Agricultural universities and colleges, Education in Athens, Educational institutions established in 1920

Agios Antonios metro station

Aghios Antonios station is a subway (metro) station of the Athens Metro. It is currently the northwest tip of the red (second) line that runs via the city centre to Agios Dimitrios station. It took its name from a nearby Christian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Anthony. This station is in the Peristeri, the biggest municipality of west Athens area. It was the first station in the area and has reduced traffic problems in Peristeri.

Located at 38.0065, 23.6998 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Athens Metro stations

Peristeri Stadium

Peristeri Stadium (also known as the Atromitos Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Peristeri, a western district of Athens, in Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atromitos. The stadium was built in 1970 and has a seating capacity of 10,200.

Located at 38.0049, 23.6898 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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1970 establishments, Football venues in Greece, Multi-purpose stadiums in Greece, 2004 Summer Olympic venues

Panathinaikos F.C. New Stadium

Panathinaikos new stadium is a multi-use sports complex in Athens, Greece, that will host all departments of the Panathinaikos sports club. The arena will be located in the historic Votanikos area, west of downtown Athens. The Votanikos area, is a sizeable industrial zone that has been in decline for several decades. It currently houses mostly vacant, dilapidated storage and industrial facilities and has been in urgent need of redevelopment and improvements in infrastructure.

Located at 37.9861, 23.6908 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Panathinaikos, Panathinaikos FC, Football venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens, Proposed stadiums

Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium

Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium is a football stadium in Egaleo, Athens, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football games and is the home stadium of Egaleo FC. it has an effective capacity of 8,217 people. It was built in 1968 and named after Stavros Mavrothalassitis mayor of Egalo in the 1960s. Ilisiakos F.C. also use the stadium currently.

Located at 37.9872, 23.676 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1968 establishments, Football venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens

Akadimia Platonos

Akademia (or Akadimia) Platonos is a subdivision located 3 km west-northwest of the downtown part of the Greek capital of Athens. The area is named after the Plato's Academy. The area are is densely populated, with people mainly living in eight to ten storey buildings. Major streets bordering this subdivision include Lenorman Avenue to the east, Palamidou Street to the south and Athinon Avenue (GR-8 and GR-8A and E90 westbound. The two main squares are Akademia Platonos and Metaxa.

Located at 37.9933, 23.7117 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Neighbourhoods in Athens

Aspropyrgos Refinery

The Aspropyrgos Refinery is an oil refining complex located near Aspropyrgos, a suburb of Athens, in Greece. It is operated by Hellenic Petroleum. The refinery has a nominal annual refining capacity of 7.5 million tons (135,000 barrels per day).

Located at 38.0323, 23.5984 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Oil refineries in Greece

Profitis Daniil, Athens

Profitis Daniil is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece.

Located at 37.9875, 23.7072 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Neighbourhoods in Athens

Sepolia

Sepolia is a neighborhood of Athens, Greece. Sepolia is often used to speak of the Metro station, in Athens Greece. The Metro station has three entries – exits. As seen here.

Located at 38.0028, 23.7135 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Neighbourhoods in Athens

Peristeri Indoor Hall

Peristeri Indoor Hall (also known as Peristeri Arena and Andreas Papandreou Arena) is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Peristeri, a western borough of Athens, Greece. The arena is named after Andreas Papandreou, the former Prime Minister of Greece, who died in 1996. It is located next to next to Peristeri Stadium. It is owned by the municipality of Peristeri. The seating capacity of the arena is 4,300.

Located at 38.0037, 23.6888 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Indoor arenas in Greece, Basketball venues in Greece, Sports venues in Athens

Neapoli Stadium (Athens)

Neapoli Stadium is football stadium in Nikea, a western district of Athens. The stadium was completed in 1965, and currently has a seating capacity of about 5,000. The stadium is mostly used for football matches and is the home field for Ionikos F.C.. Record attendance is 6,565 for a match against Olympiacos F.C. in 1990. On June 13, 2009, it was also used as the field for the Rugby Sevens' finals of the Hellenic Rugby Federation.

Located at 37.9771, 23.635 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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1965 establishments in Greece, Football venues in Greece, Buildings and structures in Attica, Multi-purpose stadiums in Greece

Haidari concentration camp

The Haidari concentration camp (Greek: στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης Χαϊδαρίου, stratópedo syngéntrosis Chaidaríou, German: KZ Chaidari) was a concentration camp operated by the German Schutzstaffel at the Athens suburb of Haidari during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II. Operating from September 1943 until it was shut down in September 1944, it was the largest and most notorious concentration camp in wartime Greece, becoming known as the "Bastille of Greece".

Located at 38.017, 23.657 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Nazi concentration camps, 1940s in Greece, Greece in World War II, The Holocaust in Greece

OAED Vocational College shooting

The OAED Vocational College shooting was a school shooting that occurred on April 10, 2009, at the Manpower Employment Organisation of Greece (OAED) vocational college in Agios Ioannis Rentis, Athens, Greece, during which a gunman shot one student and two civilians before fatally shooting himself in a nearby park. The gunman was a 19-year-old sophomore student, of Georgian decent, Dimitris Patmanidis who was studying car electronics at the college.

Located at 37.9759, 23.6791 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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2009 crimes, 2009 in Greece, University shootings

Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus

The Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus (Greek: Μουσείο Ηλεκτρικών Σιδηροδρόμων or Μουσείο ΗΣΑΠ) is a railway museum in Piraeus, Greece. The museum was established in 2005 in the space of the former Post Office in Piraeus ISAP railway station.

Located at 37.9481, 23.6426 (Lat. / Lng.), about 5 miles away.
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Museums in Piraeus, Railway museums in Greece, Museums established in 2005, 2005 establishments in Greece

Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus

The Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus (Greek: Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Πειραιά) was established by a special law in 1976 from the merger of the Anastasiadis School, founded in 1947, and the Sivitanidios School founded in 1957. The institution provides a high level of technological education combined with applied research in selected areas.

Located at 37.978, 23.672 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Technological educational institutions in Greece, Piraeus, 1976 establishments in Greece, Educational institutions established in 1976

Technological Educational Institute of Athens

The Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens is a higher-educational institute supervised by the Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs. The Technological Educational Institute also offers postgraduate courses in collaboration with other universities.

Located at 38.003, 23.676 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Education in Athens, Technological educational institutions in Greece

Piraeus–Platy railway

The railway from Piraeus to Platy is an important Greek 471-kilometre long railway line, that connects the Athens agglomeration to northern Greece and the rest of Europe. Its northern end is the station of Platy, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway. The line passes through Thebes and Larissa, and offers connections to several other cities through branch lines.

Located at 37.9491, 23.6428 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Railway lines in Greece