Aegina Day Trip

An Aegina day trip is a one-day visit to Aegina, the Saronic island of temples, monasteries and a ruined medieval town. It is one of the Greece tours that join old stones, island harbours and the sea.

What does an Aegina day trip mean?

An Aegina day trip is one day spent visiting the Greek island of Aegina. The 2011 figures give the whole island, counted as one municipality (a local council area), 13,056 residents. Aegina town alone held 7,253 of those residents.

Earlier counts show how the island’s population changed. In the 1981 figures, Aegina town had 6,730 residents, and the whole island had 11,127. In the 1991 figures, the town had 6,373 residents, and the island had 11,639. These counts describe the island that an Aegina day trip reaches.

In 1579, Greeks from the mainland repopulated the island of Aegina. To repopulate a place means to settle people there again. The mainland is the main land area of Greece, apart from its islands. An Aegina day trip today reaches an island that Greeks from the mainland resettled in that year.

After Greek independence, the town of Aegina was the first capital of Greece. A country’s capital is the city that houses its government. A prefecture is a government area for a region of the country. In 1972, the Piraeus Prefecture was abolished, and the Islands went back to the Attica Prefecture.

According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Aegina was also called Myrmidonia, meaning land of the Myrmidons. According to ancient Greek stories, a figure named Aeacus was born on Oenone or Oenopia. That island later became known as Aegina. The island visited on an Aegina day trip has more than one old name.

• Count: In the 2001 figures, Aegina town had 7,410 residents and the whole island had 13,552.
• Paliachora: Its people moved to the modern west-coast town of Aegina in the early 19th century.
• Flag: Aegina’s flag shows a green turtle on a white circle, the island’s symbol in ancient Greece.

The name Aegina points to a goat-nymph, a figure like the Cretan Amalthea. Cretan means from Crete, and ancient Greek stories describe a nymph as a female spirit of nature. That link to old stories belongs to the island behind every Aegina day trip.

What does Saint Nectarios bring to an Aegina day trip today?

An Aegina day trip adds the story of Saint Nectarios, a person the church honours as holy. Aegina is known today for his pilgrimage site, alongside its temple and its pistachios. Believers journey to a pilgrimage site, a holy place, as an act of faith.

Nectarios of Aegina is a renowned Greek saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Veneration is deep respect shown to a person. Anastasios Kephalas, later known as Nectarios, was born on 1 October 1846 in Selymbria. The saint’s story behind an Aegina day trip begins with that early life.

In 1889 Patriarch Sophronios consecrated Nectarios Metropolitan bishop of Pentapolis, an ancient diocese in Cyrenaica. Senior church leaders are called patriarchs. A diocese is the district a bishop looks after. Consecration sets a person apart for a church role. His church rank belongs to the Aegina day trip story too.

Nectarios established Holy Trinity Monastery for nuns on the island of Aegina in 1904. In December 1908 he withdrew to the Holy Trinity Convent and lived there as a monk. Monks or nuns live together in a monastery or convent. Both dates are worth knowing before an Aegina day trip.

With his own funds, Nectarios worked the gardens, hauled stones and assisted in raising the monastery buildings. In this case, funds are money. His death came on 8 November 1920, at age 74. Multitudes of people from Greece and Egypt attended his funeral. Very large crowds are called multitudes.

• Sainthood: On 20 April 1961 Patriarch Athenagoras the First of Constantinople glorified him, meaning he named him a saint.
• Feast day: His feast day, a yearly day that honours a saint, falls on 9 November.
• Patron saint: Saint Nectarios is considered a patron saint, a protector, for people who are suffering from diseases.

On 15 September 1998 the Patriarchate of Alexandria restored the ecclesiastical order of Nectarios. The word ecclesiastical describes anything of the church, while a patriarchate is the area under a patriarch. Each date above belongs in any Aegina day trip account of the saint.

What does Paliachora bring to an Aegina day trip overall?

An Aegina day trip picks up a thick layer of history at Paliachora. Paliachora is a medieval settlement, a town from the Middle Ages, and its people left it behind. The settlement has also been nicknamed the Mystras of Aigina.

Buildings from ancient and early Christian times have been found around Paliachora. Such finds add depth to an Aegina day trip. Moustopoulos dated the abandonment of Aegina’s coasts to the 9th century AD, after damage by pirates called Saracens. One hundred years together make up a single century.

In 1296 Aegina was given as a dowry to Boniface of Verona. A dowry is land or money given along with a marriage. In 1462 the Venetians, who were people of Venice, took the skull of St. George from Aegina to Venice. A saint is a person a church honours as holy.

In 1540 Aegina came under Ottoman control, and Paliachora was resettled because piracy threatened again. Piracy means robbery carried out at sea. Venetians under Francisco Morozini besieged Paliachora after pirate attacks. To besiege is to surround a place and attack it. These events shape the Aegina day trip story of Paliachora.

Two main roads divided Paliachora and led up to its castle. A castle is a fortress built to defend a town. The castle’s entrances lay on its north and east sides. Details such as roads and entrances make the old town easy to picture on an Aegina day trip.

• Setting: Paliachora lies beside the road linking Aigina town on the west coast with the Temple of Aphaia.
• Town size: In 1765 the town of Paliachora held about four hundred houses.
• Castle walls: Remains of the castle walls are preserved to a height of 1.8 metres.

As piracy declined around the early 19th century, residents gradually left Paliachora for modern Aegina town. Paliachora therefore adds a long story of settlement and departure to an Aegina day trip. Dates and names from the written record carry the whole story of the town.

On an Aegina day trip, what do the Aegina sculptures bring?

An Aegina day trip adds the story of the ancient Aphaia temple’s pediment sculptures. Above a temple’s columns sits the pediment, a triangle of stone filled with carved figures. The museums of Aegina and the temple site also hold fragments of these sculptures.

The pediment marbles were sold to Crown Prince Ludwig, soon King Ludwig of Bavaria. In this sense, the marbles are statues that were carved from marble. The theft and the sale followed the advice of architect Carl Haller von Hallerstein. The prince supported him, and such a supported person is called a protégé.

King Ludwig commissioned the Glyptothek, a museum in Munich, to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures. Ludwig’s agents acquired the Aphaia temple figures with two other works, the Medusa Rondanini and the Barberini Faun. An Aegina day trip therefore connects the island to the sculpture collection of King Ludwig.

Architect Leo von Klenze designed the Glyptothek, and the new museum was built from 1816 to 1830. Ludwig imagined a “German Athens” and had his museum built in front of the gates of Munich. That plan for Munich also belongs to the history behind an Aegina day trip.

The Aegina marbles shaped the local character of Neoclassicism in Munich, as seen in Leo von Klenze’s buildings. Builders in the Neoclassical style imitate ancient Greek and Roman buildings and temples. An Aegina day trip therefore touches the history of architecture as well as ancient sculpture.

• Finished backs: The figures are finished even on their backs, although those sides faced the pediment and stayed hidden.
• Persian Wars: Part of the eastern pediment was destroyed during the Persian Wars.
• Sanctuary burial: Surviving statues stood in the sanctuary enclosure, a sacred space; destroyed ones were buried by ancient custom.

Today the Glyptothek stands as Munich’s oldest public museum. It also holds two sets of similar sculptures from the Aphaia temple on Aegina. An Aegina day trip therefore leads into a story told in Munich as well as on the island.

What does the Aegina turtle coin bring to an Aegina day trip overall?

An Aegina day trip carries the story of the island’s turtle coins. Those coins were first made on the island of Aegina itself, so the story starts there. Small as one coin is, it still ties the island to the wider history of Greek money.

The word stater is worth learning before an Aegina day trip. This word names a Greek coin and comes from statḗr, a Greek word that means ‘weight’. That name shows how closely the ancient Greeks tied this kind of money to weight. Knowing this makes later coin names easier to follow.

One electrum turtle coin struck at Aegina is now on display at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Electrum is a metal found in nature, a blend of gold with silver. The French name Bibliothèque Nationale means the national library. Striking a coin means pressing a design into a flat piece of metal.

Aegina was not alone in making staters. Cities such as Delphi, Knossos, Olympia, Syracuse and Thebes also struck staters. Knowing this, a reader sees the island’s coin as part of a wider Greek habit of making staters. That view gives an Aegina day trip a clear place in Greek history.

A Corinth stater weighed 8.6 grams and split into three silver drachmae. Each drachma was a smaller silver coin, so the stater was the bigger unit of the pair. Such figures offer a reader a plain sense of scale, a useful lens for any Aegina day trip.

• Everyday name: In daily use, people called the stater of Aegina by the Greek name chelone, meaning turtle.
• Time span: Greek silver staters stayed in use as money from the 8th century BC until AD 50.
• Celtic link: Celtic tribes, once paid soldiers in north Greece, carried the stater idea to Western and Central Europe.

Martin Price works as a numismatist, a scholar of coins. He suggests that the turtle on the coin of Aegina stood for maritime power, meaning strength at sea. That idea ties the coin story of an Aegina day trip to the sea.

On an Aegina day trip, why does the Aegina Treasure matter?

An Aegina day trip comes with a link to the Aegina Treasure, an important hoard of Minoan gold. A hoard, or treasure, is a stash of valuable objects kept together. Minoan describes the ancient people who lived on the island of Crete.

For an Aegina day trip, one date anchors the treasure’s story: 1891. The hoard was said to come from a tomb on Aegina, found in that year. A tomb is a burial chamber. The exact circumstances of the find have never been determined. The Aegina Treasure therefore comes with an open question.

The same Aegina day trip story leads next to one museum. The British Museum has held the Aegina Treasure in its collection since 1892. A collection is the group of objects that a museum owns and looks after. In 1914, the museum bought further pieces from the treasure.

Style and iconography date the gold jewellery to the Greek Bronze Age, between 1850 and 1550 BC. Iconography means the pictures and symbols used on an object. The Bronze Age takes its name from bronze, which blends copper with tin. That period sits behind every Aegina day trip story about the treasure.

The treasure also holds four rings, decorated plaques and plain strips. Plaques are flat plates. Its beads and pendants are made of gold, lapis lazuli, amethyst, quartz, cornelian and green jasper. A pendant hangs from a chain. Lapis lazuli is a deep blue stone, and cornelian is a red one.

• Chest pendant: The treasure includes an elaborate chest pendant, meaning a richly detailed ornament for the chest.
• Cretan god: The pendant seems to show a Cretan god with a goose on each side, set in a field.
• Sacred horns: Two sacred bulls’ horns appear to stand behind the god on the pendant.

A Master of Animals is a figure shown between animals in ancient art. The pendant’s god relates to Master of Animals figures found in Ancient Near East art. That link carries an Aegina day trip story to the old lands of western Asia.

On an Aegina day trip, why does Kapodistrias matter?

An Aegina day trip links to the story of Kapodistrias. On 7 January 1828 he came ashore at Nafplion, then travelled on to Aegina. Knowing that story adds depth to a day on the island and its modern Greek history.

The landing at Nafplion was the first time Kapodistrias had ever set foot on the Greek mainland. Large crowds welcomed him with enthusiasm wherever he went in Greece. A reader planning an Aegina day trip can start from a simple picture. It shows a new leader, a young country and a warm welcome.

Greece was bankrupt when Kapodistrias arrived, and the Greeks had no united national government. Facing that, he asked the Senate, the state’s lawmaking council, for full executive powers and a suspended constitution. Executive powers mean the power to run the state. A suspended constitution pauses the written rules of government.

A Panhellenion of 27 members, chosen by the governor, was to replace the Senate. Kapodistrias also adopted the Byzantine Hexabiblos of Armenopoulos as Greece’s interim civil code. An interim civil code is a temporary set of laws for everyday life. An Aegina day trip connects to a state that turned to Byzantine law.

Kapodistrias founded hospitals and schools for children and introduced new agricultural techniques, or farming methods. In 1830 he granted legal equality to Jews in the new Greek state. Legal equality means the law treated them like everyone else. Reading about these reforms before an Aegina day trip makes the island’s history easier to place.

• Public health: His first modern quarantine system, keeping sick people apart, brought typhoid, cholera and dysentery epidemics under control.
• A legend: Legend says Kapodistrias put potatoes under guard on the Nafplion docks to make them seem valuable.
• A remark: Kapodistrias compared giving Greeks democracy at that time to giving a boy a razor.

The Hellenic State was the name used from 1827 to 1832, after the Provisional Administration of Greece. Provisional here means temporary. Keeping these names in mind gives an Aegina day trip a short and useful history lesson.

On an Aegina day trip, why does Cockerell matter?

An Aegina day trip carries the story of Charles Robert Cockerell, an English architect, archaeologist and writer. In April 1811 he was on the island, helping to survey and excavate the Temple of Aphaea. Surveying means measuring a site with care; excavating means digging to study it.

Cockerell studied architecture under the architect Robert Smirke. On 14 April 1810 he set off on his Grand Tour. This was a long journey made to study the ancient world. Readers planning an Aegina day trip can begin with this short background before turning to the island itself.

After visiting Troy, an ancient city, Cockerell arrived in Athens by January 1811. Athens is the capital of Greece today. That date helps place him in time and gives the story a clear order. Anyone reading about an Aegina day trip can follow his movements from Troy to Athens.

On Aegina, Cockerell found fallen pediment sculptures. A pediment is the triangular gable at the top of a temple front. He discovered that the sculptures were originally painted. In 1836 he joined a committee asking whether the Elgin Marbles had originally been coloured. That detail is worth noting on an Aegina day trip.

Cockerell discovered the Bassae Frieze, which was later excavated and sold to the British Museum. A frieze is a band of carved figures along a wall. In a letter of 23 December 1814, Cockerell described his re-discovery of entasis. Entasis is the slight outward curve in the shaft of a column.

• First work: Cockerell’s first building, at Harrow School, was brick and built in the old English Tudor style.
• St Paul’s: In 1819 Cockerell was appointed Surveyor of the Fabric (the building’s structure) of St Paul’s Cathedral.
• Liverpool: After Harvey Lonsdale Elmes died, Cockerell designed the interiors of St George’s Hall in Liverpool.

Cockerell won the first Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1848. A medal is a prize given for achievement in a chosen field. Readers who know this story bring a fuller picture of the man to an Aegina day trip.

What does the Battle of Salamis bring to an Aegina day trip today?

An Aegina day trip links to the story of the Battle of Salamis. That battle ended in a victory for the outnumbered Greek side. Outnumbered describes the side with fewer fighters. It also marked the turning point in the Greco-Persian wars between the Greeks and the Persians.

Athenian general Themistocles persuaded the Greeks to bring the Persian fleet to battle again. Ships that sail together as one force form a fleet. Persian king Xerxes was also eager for a decisive battle. A fight that settles the outcome is called decisive. Knowing this background gives an Aegina day trip a clearer story.

That evening, Themistocles sent a servant named Sicinnus to Xerxes with a message. Xerxes took the bait, meaning he fell for a trick. He sent the Persian fleet out to block the straits. The word straits names narrow stretches of sea. This tale adds real drama to an Aegina day trip.

In the cramped straits, the Persian ships struggled to maneuver, or steer and turn, and became disorganized. Herodotus’ account puts the southern end of the Greek line off Cape Vavari on Salamis. Here, an account means a written record of events. A cape is a strip of land that stretches into the sea.

The Aeginetans were the people of Aegina. They claimed the first Greek ship to ram a Persian vessel was one of theirs. Ramming means hitting another ship on purpose. That claim gives an Aegina day trip a local link to the story of the battle.

• Athenian ships: In the Greek line, the Athenian ships took the left side.
• Psyttaleia: Xerxes placed around 400 soldiers on Psyttaleia, an island sitting midway across the straits exit.
• Retreat: Xerxes retreated, or pulled back, to Asia and left Mardonius to complete the conquest of Greece.

The next year, the Persian army was defeated at Plataea and the Persian navy at Mycale. Ships belonging to one country as a single fleet form its navy. These later defeats round out the history behind an Aegina day trip for curious travelers.

What does Telamon bring to an Aegina day trip today?

An Aegina day trip crosses paths with Telamon, a hero of ancient Greek myth. In the old stories, King Aeacus of Aegina is his father. Endeïs, a nymph of the mountains and so a spirit of the natural world, was his mother.

Telamon was the elder brother of Peleus. He sailed with Jason as an Argonaut, a member of Jason’s crew of heroes. He was also present at the Calydonian Boar hunt, a chase after a wild pig of legend. Such tales bring adventure to an Aegina day trip.

The Iliad, an ancient Greek poem, covers the war at Troy. Within it, Telamon fathers the heroes Ajax the Great and Teucer. That link ties the poem to an Aegina day trip. The two sons have different mothers. Other accounts of the myth also give Telamon a third son, named Trambelus.

Telamon and Peleus killed their half-brother Phocus, a brother by one shared parent. They then fled Aegina for the island of Salamis. King Cychreus took Telamon in and became his friend. Periboea, the daughter of King Cychreus, became Telamon’s wife and gave birth to Ajax.

Telamon took Hesione as a war prize and married her. She bore him Teucer. Telamon sent Teucer away from Salamis, an act of banishment. The reason given was Teucer’s failure to bring his brother Ajax home. A tale of sons, wives and kings is easy to recall on an Aegina day trip.

• Friends: Telamon and Peleus, close friends of Heracles, helped him against the Amazon warriors and at Troy.
• Kingdom: Sometime later, Cychreus gave Telamon his kingdom, which is the land a king rules.
• Altar: Telamon quickly built an altar, a place for offerings, for Hercules, who was about to strike him.

Telamon belongs to myth. The ancient Greeks told his tale as a story, not as a record of events. Read that way, the tale adds a thread of family and exile to an Aegina day trip. Brothers, sons and friends all play a part in it.

In an Aegina day trip, what does Agia Marina bring?

An Aegina day trip gains a seaside place in Agia Marina, in the northeast of the island. The village lies at the inner end of its bay, west of the cape with the same name. A cape is a headland that juts into the sea.

Until 1960, Agia Marina was a small village. Its people lived from livestock, farming and fishing. Livestock means animals kept on a farm. After the 1970s, large hotels and shops were built in the village. Those two dates frame the story of the place for any Aegina day trip along this coast.

Together with Aegina town, Agia Marina is now one of the island’s two biggest tourist centres. A tourist centre is a place that welcomes visitors, such as those on an Aegina day trip. Pleasure boats, meaning craft for leisure, and passenger ships moor in the bay. To moor is to tie up.

The 2011 census counted 277 permanent residents in Agia Marina. Officials run a census to tally every person living in an area. Permanent residents live in a place all year. The 1961 census found 89 residents actually present. The two counts use different wording.

From Aegina town, Agia Marina is about 12.5 km to the east. Its average height is 30 metres above sea level. Heights are measured from the surface of the sea, called sea level. Both figures help to place the village on the map for an Aegina day trip.

• Beaches: The village has a sandy beach, and Kyr-Annitsa and Fifty Rocks beaches lie to the south.
• Festival: A festival at the church of Agia Marina takes place on 17 July.
• Monastery: Agios Minas monastery, a religious community’s home, stands in a pine setting close to the Temple of Aphaia.

In short, Agia Marina adds a coastal settlement with a clear record of change. An Aegina day trip gains fixed points from its dates, counts and local events. Those points let readers fit the village into a wider picture of the island.

In an Aegina day trip, what does Moni bring?

An Aegina day trip centres on Aegina, and Moni adds a small island just off its coast. Moni is an uninhabited island, so nobody lives there. It is a neighbour of Aegina, not a part of the main island.

The island is listed as Moni Aiginas. Its position is given as 37°41′31″N 23°26′06″E. Map coordinates like these fix one spot, and N and E stand for north and east. A reader planning an Aegina day trip can type them into a map to find Moni.

Platia Aeginis is another uninhabited island of the Argo-Saronic group. Here, a group is simply a set of islands named as one unit. Its position is given as 37°34′34″N 23°30′26″E. Its numbers differ from those of Moni, so the two islands sit at separate points.

Greek islands are traditionally arranged in clusters, each a set of islands. The Saronic Islands form one such cluster. They sit near Athens inside the Saronic Gulf, a wide inlet of the sea. They belong to the Greek administration of Attica, the regional government. Readers can use this wider map for an Aegina day trip.

Revythousa is a small, uninhabited island in the Saronic Gulf. Its area is 0.18 square kilometres. Each side of a square kilometre is one kilometre long. The island lies 900 metres west of Salamis. Such figures help an Aegina day trip planner judge how small these islands are.

• Revythousa coast: The island lies 500 metres south of the coast of Agia Triada.
• Psyttaleia size: This island in the Saronic Gulf covers 0.375 square kilometres.
• Psyttaleia lighthouse: The island’s north-eastern part holds a lighthouse, a tower that signals to ships with a beam.

Revythousa has been governed from Salamis since 2001. Psyttaleia, by contrast, belongs to the Municipality of Piraeus, a local government area. These islands are uninhabited, yet each has a clear place in the records for an Aegina day trip.

On an Aegina day trip, what does Mount Oros give?

An Aegina day trip gains an old mountain name and an old mountain story from Mount Oros. Pausanias, an ancient writer, knew this peak of Aegina as Panhellenion. The ancient tales tied to this mountain centre on Zeus, a god of old Greece.

A peak called Prophet Elias belongs to the highest ground of Aegina, beside Oros. Nikolaki, 451 m, and Platyvouni, 442 m, are counted as continuations of Oros north of Prophet Elias. A continuation is a part that carries Oros onward. Any Aegina day trip talk of Oros covers a stretch of high ground.

Pausanias reports that Aeacus made the sanctuary of Zeus on the Mount of the Greeks. Worship happens in a sanctuary, a site kept holy and separate from daily use. Pausanias found nothing else worth mentioning on that mount. For an Aegina day trip, that makes the sanctuary the one place he recorded there.

The ancient Greeks told of Aeacus, Zeus and a calamity, which means a great disaster. Aeacus built a temple to Zeus Panhellenius on Mount Panhellenion. Delphi’s oracle was a source of answers said to come from the gods. It declared no end to the calamity unless Aeacus prayed to the gods.

The title Zeus Hellanios translates as Greek Zeus. A title adds a short note about a god to his name. The Temple of Zeus Hellanios lies near the village of Pachia Rachi on Aegina. This temple gives an Aegina day trip a second story about Zeus.

• Church: Over the remains of the ancient Temple of Zeus Hellanios stands a 13th-century Byzantine church, from medieval Greece.
• Age: The ancient temple to Zeus Hellanios was built in the 4th century BC.
• What remains: Of the earlier temple, the church staircase, sections of the first walls and loose stones remain.

After Aeacus prayed, the drought ceased, as the old story tells it. That ending is the lasting thought an Aegina day trip takes from Mount Oros. It joins a prayer, a god and a mountain name from long ago into one short tale.

What does Salamis Island bring to an Aegina day trip overall?

An Aegina day trip links to the island of Salamis through old history. The first colonists of Salamis are thought to have come from Aegina. A colony is a new community founded by settlers from another place. Megara occupied the island at a later date.

Salamina, the chief city of Salamis, sits in the west-facing core of a crescent on Salamis Bay. By tradition, the island was named after the nymph Salamis, a female spirit of nature in Greek myth. She was the mother of the legendary first king Cychreus. Salamis brings old legends to an Aegina day trip.

A modern theory splits the name Salamis into two roots, one for salt and one for middle. That reading makes it the place amid salt water. In classical times, the capital of Salamis stood on the Kamatero Peninsula, overlooking the Strait of Salamis. That history gives an Aegina day trip a second chapter.

The villages show what Salamis adds to an Aegina day trip. Aianteio, in southwest Salamis, is named after Ajax, leader of the people of Salamis in Homer’s Iliad. The Iliad is a poem from ancient Greece. Peristeria lies near the Cave of Euripides, linked with the ancient playwright. A playwright writes plays for the stage.

Aianteio holds the oldest church on Salamis, Saint John Kalyvitis, which dates to the 10th century. The church honours a saint as a holy person. A monastery of Saint Nicolas from the 18th century stands in a forest in the Aianteio area. A monastery houses a religious community.

• Beaches: Southern Salamis, away from the port, has less developed areas with swimming beaches at Maroudi and Perani.
• Xeno: This place on Salamis got its name because its first residents came from Piraeus.
• Selinia: Athenians treat this place on Salamis as a weekend resort.

Salamis holds festivals through the year, including a Fisherman’s Festival and the Carnival. These events add a living local side to an Aegina day trip. The island therefore offers old history and present-day celebration in one place.

What questions does an Aegina day trip raise?

An Aegina day trip has a clear setting. Athens International Airport serves it. April runs cooler than July at the Piraeus Port station. The island sits in the Attica region. The Saronic Gulf, a busy stretch of sea, surrounds it.

Which airport serves an Aegina day trip?

Athens International Airport reached almost 18.1 million passengers in 2015, a record at that time. Its first phase, a building stage that is still current, allows for 26 million passengers per year. The sixth and final expansion phase will let the airport handle 50 million passengers a year.

Which season suits an Aegina day trip?

Piraeus Port station data show an April average daily high of 21.2 °C. A daily high is the day’s warmest temperature. The same station gives July an average daily high of 35.0 °C. Average rainfall for October at that station is 12.2 mm.

Which region holds an Aegina day trip?

Attica is a Greek administrative region, meaning a government area. Its core city, Athens, is the country’s capital and largest city. Since 1 January 2011, it has represented the second level of local administration. Its islands include Salamis, Aegina, Angistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, Kythira and Antikythera.

Which gulf surrounds an Aegina day trip?

The Saronic Gulf holds two notable archaeological sites, places with ancient remains. These are the theatre at Epidaurus and Aphaia’s temple on Aegina. Beaches line its shore from Piraeus down to Anavyssos. The gulf stays busy because commercial ships serve the oil refineries, Piraeus and the canal.