Day trips · South-east Attica

Lavrio

A mining town on the south-east Attic coast, 8 km north of Sounion, whose silver mines funded the classical Athenian state; extraction evidence goes back to around 3200 BC with systematic working from the 6th century BC. Nineteenth-century industrial buildings survive alongside the Mineralogical Museum. The port is the third Athens ferry gateway after Piraeus and Rafina, serving Kea and Kythnos and onward Cycladic routes, with sailings dropping sharply outside June to September.

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Ferries To Kea And KythnosIndustrial ArchaeologyCombining With SounionPortIndustrial heritageMiningFerry