# Schinias beach and pine wood

What to do en Marathon · Marathon

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/things-to-do/schinias-beach-and-park · Revisado: 2026-11-12

- Desde: 0 € 
- Duración: 4 h
- Temporada: June to September for swimming; the wetland, all year
- Para quién: All ages

Beach · half a day · Free · Several kilometres of sand with a pine wood behind, in the bay where the Persians landed, beside the wetland and the Olympic rowing canal

What it is
Schinias is the bay north of the Marathon plain: several kilometres of sandy beach, with a stone-pine wood behind giving shade, and a protected wetland between the pine wood and the hill. The Persian fleet anchored in this bay in 490 BC. Today it is the beach of north-eastern Athenians, with shallow water, and at one end is the 2004 Olympic rowing canal.
How to get there
By car from the mound, ten minutes to the north. In summer, at weekends it fills up; on weekdays or out of season, there is plenty of room.

## Cómo llegar y contacto

- Coordenadas: 38.135, 24.005

## Cerca de aquí

- [Moraitis Beach, a Beach Club at Schinias](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/where-to-eat/moraitis-beach-schinias), a 989 m
- [The Marathon tumulus of the Athenians](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/things-to-do/tumulus-of-the-athenians), a 3.0 km
- [Argo, Ouzeri and Fish Taverna](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/where-to-eat/argo-nea-makri), a 5.1 km
- [I Trata, Fish Taverna](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/where-to-eat/trata-nea-makri), a 5.6 km
- [Marathon Archaeological Museum and the Plataean mound](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/things-to-do/marathon-museum), a 5.7 km
- [Marathon Beach Resort](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/where-to-stay/marathon-beach-resort), a 5.7 km
- [Ballos Apartments](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/where-to-stay/ballos-apartments), a 5.8 km
- [Rhamnous, the sanctuary of Nemesis above the sea](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon/things-to-do/rhamnous), a 9.4 km

## Consejos

### Natural shade
The pine wood reaches almost to the sand: no need for an umbrella.

### In winter, for walking
The wetland has birds and the pine wood has flat paths.

Destino: [Marathon](https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/attica/marathon.md)