page_title: Athens
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Athens / Economy and infrastructure / Transport
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte des ÖV-Netzes von Athen English: Map of the public transport network of Athens
context_page_description: Athens, is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.
  Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent, and in particular the Romans. In modern times, Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece.
  Athens is a global city and one of the biggest economic centers in southeastern Europe. It has a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the largest passenger port in Europe, and the second largest in the world.
  The Municipality of Athens, which actually constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire city, had a population of 664,046 within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km².
context_section_description: Athens is the major transportation hub of Greece. They combines the largest Airport in Greece as also the largest port in Greece which also the largest port in Mediterranean in containers transport and the largest passenger port in Europe. Is also major national hub for Intercity (Ktel) and international buses as well as for domestic and international rail transport. Public transport is serviced by a variety of transportation means, forming the largest mass transit system of Greece. The Athens Mass Transit System consists of a large bus fleet, a trolleybus fleet that mainly serves Athens's city center, the city's Metro, a Proastiakos service and a tram network, connecting the southern suburbs to the City Centre.
caption: Athens metropolitan railway network (metró and proastiakós)
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