Glyfada - Sun, Sea, Sand and Sport

Once reliant on fishing and agriculture to sustain its economy, today tourism is the daily bread and butter of the cosmopolitan beach resort of Glyfada. Located on the coast south of Athens, Glyfada plays host to a large community of affluent expatriates and a vast number of visitors,

particularly at weekends and during the hot summer months. Foreigners and Athenians alike flock to this holiday suburb to top up their tans on its golden beach, Asteria, and to enjoy its many recreational facilities, including tennis, sailing, windsurfing, diving and golf. Luxury yachts line the marinas, whilst a multitude of great shopping malls, restaurants, bars and discos are dotted around Plateia Katraki Vasos and Ioanni Metaxa Street.

Getting to Glyfada is easy. The new extension to Metro Line 2 will take passengers from central Athens to the new Helliniko Olympic Complex. From here, a tram will travel along Posidonos Street to Glyfada and then continue  on

to the resorts of Voula, Vouliagmeni and Varkiza further south. The latter claim the usual assortment of sandy pay-beaches and water-sports facilities, but Vouliagmeni is certainly the most exclusive of the three, with its luxury hotel-resorts and sailing clubs.

Important to visit

• Bathing in the therapeutic mineral waters of Vouliagmeni Lake, believed to cure a multitude of ailments .

• A round at Glyfada Golf Course (the only such in Athens) which sports an 18-hole, 72-par championship course, driving range and putting green.

• Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni; spotlessly clean and by far the most exclusive of the south coast’s fabulous beaches .

Acropolis - Omonia - Kolonaki - Syntagma - Psychiko - Kifissia - Piraeus - Glyfada