# Galaxidi

A seafaring village half an hour from Delphi: two harbours, captains' mansions, the Nautical Museum (€3), the pine wood by the sea and the flour war.

Fuente: https://www.geocalia.com/en/greece/central-greece/galaxidi · Revisado: 2026-11-12

Galaxidi is the village you come to when you go down from Delphi to the sea: a small peninsula on the Gulf of Corinth with two natural harbours, coloured neoclassical houses and a pine wood that reaches the water. In the 19th century it had one of the great sailing fleets of Greece, and its shipowners' money built the mansions that today make it one of the prettiest villages on the coast. It is half an hour from Delphi and two and a half hours from Athens, and it is the place to sleep after the sanctuary if you prefer the sea to the mountains.

## How do you get there from Athens?

By car, about two and a half hours for some 215 km: motorway towards Lamia as far as the Livadia exit, the mountain road through Arachova and Delphi, and the descent among the Amfissa olive trees to Itea, where you carry on along the coast. The natural thing is to stop at Delphi on the way.

By bus, KTEL buses link Galaxidi with Athens in about two and a half to three hours, with connections at Livadia and Itea.

From Spain, you fly to Athens. With a hire car from the airport, Galaxidi is the last stop on a two-day route through Osios Loukas, Arachova and Delphi.

## What is there to see in Galaxidi?

First, the walk between the two harbours: Agora, the big one, with the terraces and the boats, and Chirolakas, quieter, linked by stone streets between the captains' houses, such as the Tsalangyra, which is now the town hall. At the very top, the church of St Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, with its carved iconostasis.

The Nautical and Historical Museum explains all this: founded in 1928, it has the largest collection of ship paintings in Greece, figureheads and the Chronicle of Galaxidi. It costs €3 and opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 15:00.

East of the harbour begins the pine wood by the sea, with coves for swimming; Trekking Hellas leads a guided walk from March to November, taking in the village's last shipyard and the ancient walls. And if you go in February or March, on Clean Monday, the village celebrates the alevromoutzouroma, a flour war with coloured flour and soot at the harbour.

## Where to sleep?

In the centre, the Hotel Ganimede, a 19th-century captain's house with a garden courtyard, home-made breakfast and suites with a kitchen and fireplace. At the entrance to the village, facing the sea, Porto Lourbas, with a pool, olive grove and a restaurant serving home cooking: the one that suits children in summer. And 70 metres from the harbour, the Hotel Galaxidi, simple and renovated, with a balcony in every room, free parking at the door and breakfast from the garden.

## Where to eat?

On the terraces of the harbour, with fish and fish meze, and for dessert ravani, the semolina cake in syrup that is eaten here. At Pera Panta, the opposite shore, Maritsa occupies a former captains' café by the water: local mussels, seafood pasta and sea bass carpaccio, every day from 12:00 to 23:00. On the quay, next to Mama square, Taverna Porto is the family taverna of grilled fish and home-style stews, with a fireplace in winter; it publishes hours from Friday to Sunday. If you sleep at Porto Lourbas, its restaurant serves home cooking for guests. Out of season, some tavernas close: call ahead.

## A day trip or with a night?

From Athens, as a day trip, Galaxidi only fits alongside Delphi: sanctuary in the morning, lunch at the harbour and back. With a night, you really enjoy the village: sunset at the harbour, the morning in the pine wood and the museum. You have both organised in the getaway to Delphi and Galaxidi and on the Delphi page.

## Dónde está
- Cerca: Delphi (a 15.6 km), Arachova (a 20.9 km), Corinth (a 68.0 km), Nemea and its wineries (a 68.2 km)

## Qué hacer
- **Galaxidi's Harbours and the Captains' Houses** (1 h 30 · All ages · Free): What it is
Galaxidi lived off the sea. From its two natural harbours, Agora and Chirolakas, the shipowners' sailing ships set out to cross the Mediterranean, and its fleet was among the most important in Greece until steam arrived. With that money the captains' houses were built: neoclassical mansions with colourful facades that today make up one of the prettiest villages on the Gulf of Corinth coast. Galaxidi stands on the site of ancient Oiantheia.
Where to go
Start at the big harbour, Agora, with its fishing boats and sailing boats and fish terraces. Climb the stone streets between mansions: the Tsalangyra, now the town hall; the old girls' school, in stone; the Bourzeiko. Cross the ridge of the village to the quieter harbour of Chirolakas, and come back along the shore. On the way there are five traditional squares and a park.
- **Galaxidi Nautical and Historical Museum** (1 h · All ages · 3 €): What it is
The museum tells how a fishing village came to have one of the great sailing fleets of Greece. It was founded in 1928 by the doctor Efthymios Vlamis, who began with a gallery of naval painting, and it occupies a building from 1868 about 500 metres from the centre. It holds the largest collection of ship paintings in Greece, many of them of Galaxidi's nineteenth-century sailing ships; wooden figureheads, shipwrights' tools, ship documents and registers, ancient coins from the archaeological section and the Chronicle of Galaxidi, a manuscript published in 1865.
Admission and opening hours
€3. Open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 15:00; closed on Monday. It is on the corner of Mouseiou and Stavros Niarchos streets, five minutes' walk from the centre or three by car.
- **Church of Agios Nikolaos in Galaxidi** (30 min · All ages · Free): What it is
Galaxidi put its main church under Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, and built it at the highest point of the village, in sight of the ships entering the harbour. Inside, what stands out most is the iconostasis, the wall of icons that screens the altar, carved in wood in great detail.
Getting there
On foot from the harbour, climbing through the streets of the centre, in ten minutes. Go in with shoulders and knees covered.
- **Walk Through the Pine Forest and Coast of Galaxidi** (3 h · 4 km · From age 8; walking footwear · Desde 50 € per person, in a group of 4 to 7): What it is
East of the harbour, five minutes from the centre, Galaxidi's coast is a pine forest that reaches down to the water, with stony coves and a beach. The guided outing from Trekking Hellas starts there: an hour and a half through the pines and along the shore, and another hour and a half around the old harbour, the last shipyard still working and the remains of the ancient walls of Oiantheia.
Guided or on your own
Guided, from €50 per person in a group of four to seven; €60 if there are three of you and €75 if there are two. You meet at 9:00 in Mama Square, by the harbour. It is level 1, for everyone from age 8. On your own, follow the shore east from the harbour: the pine forest begins straight away.
- **The Alevromoutzouroma, the Flour War of Clean Monday** (4 h · All ages, in old clothes · Free): What it is
Every Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent, Galaxidi celebrates the alevromoutzouroma: a battle of coloured flour and soot that fills the harbour, the streets and everyone passing with dust. It is a custom of Dionysian origin.
Getting there
Clean Monday falls 48 days before Orthodox Easter, in February or March; it is a public holiday in Greece and the Athens road fills up. Go in clothes you can throw away, with goggles and something to cover your phone and camera. If you want to watch without getting dirty, find a balcony: down below, nobody escapes.

## Dónde comer
- **Maritsa** (Restaurant, Galaxidi, €€€). Qué pedir: local mussels steamed with ginger and a seafood pasta for the middle of the table, with a Greek white from the list
- **Taverna Porto** (Restaurant, Galaxidi, €€). Qué pedir: sardines or a grilled sea bream, a salad for the middle and one of Sofia's home-made desserts

## By car: By Car to Galaxidi via Delphi
By car, Galaxidi is the natural end to a day at Delphi: you come down from the sanctuary through the Amfissa olive groves to Itea and carry on along the coast. From Athens it is about two and a half hours by the Lamia motorway, Livadia and Arachova.
Presupuesto orientativo: 75–130 € por persona y día.
### Dónde dormir if you're driving
- **Ganimede Hotel** (Small hotel): The house
Ganimede is a nineteenth-century captain's house on a quiet street in the centre of Galaxidi, five minutes' walk from the harbour. From 1966 it was run by the Italian Bruno Perrocco, who made it famous, and in 2003 Kostas and Chrysoula Papalexi took it over and still follow their jam and chutney recipes. The heart of the house is the courtyard, a garden where you have breakfast, read or have a drink in the afternoon. It has three official stars.
The rooms
The superior rooms, on the first floor, measure 17 or 20 m² and have their own or a shared balcony onto the village and the garden, for two or three people. The standard rooms, 12 to 14 m², are on the garden floor or have a shared balcony. The traditional suite, 40 m², has a fireplace, a full kitchen and a mezzanine with two beds: it suits a family of four. The Deluxe and the Modern Suite, also with kitchens, are for two to four people. All have air conditioning, heating, wifi, a fridge and coffee and tea.
Breakfast
It is the reason many people come back: assorted breads, sponge cakes with lemon cream, home-made jams, local ham and cheese, sweet or savoury tiganites, milk pie, chutney, fruit, eggs cooked to order and freshly squeezed juice. In good weather, in the garden; in winter, in the dining room by the fireplace.
Getting there
By car, about two and a half hours from Athens by the Lamia motorway, Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; Delphi is half an hour away. By KTEL bus from Athens, about two and a half to three hours. The house also organises cookery classes.
- **Porto Lourbas Hotel** (Hotel): The hotel
Porto Lourbas is on the Itea road, at the entrance to Galaxidi, facing the sea with a view of the village and the Gulf of Corinth. It is surrounded by its own olive grove, whose oil and olives end up on the breakfast table. It has a garden with a stone fountain, a pool with a sea view and a bar beside it, and three official stars. Delphi is 32 km away.
The rooms
Decorated one by one, with air conditioning, a private bathroom, TV and a balcony with a view. Simple and traditional.
Eating
The hotel restaurant, open to its guests, serves home cooking with quality produce and some dishes of its own. The Greek breakfast recognised by the hotel chamber includes the day's bread, fritters, home-made cheese pies, vegetable pies with courgette or leek, eggs with tomato, olives and local honey, semolina halva and lemonade made from the garden's lemons.
Getting there
By car, past Itea, the coast road reaches the hotel before the village; the centre of Galaxidi is a walk away. Parking is no problem.
- **Hotel Galaxidi** (Hotel): The hotel
Hotel Galaxidi is a small hotel on Andrea Syngrou Street, a quiet street about 70 metres from the big harbour. It is what you want if you arrive by car: it has free parking in front of the door, something you appreciate in the narrow streets of central Galaxidi. On foot, in a couple of minutes you are at the quayside terraces, and in ten at the Nautical Museum or climbing up to Agios Nikolaos. The house does not publish an official star rating on its website.
The rooms
They are doubles and triples, renovated, spread over the first and second floors. The website photos show simple, clean rooms, with beds with wooden headboards, a desk, long curtains and paintings of ships, and new bathrooms with a walk-in shower. All have their own balcony, air conditioning and free wifi, and are cleaned every day. Reception is open from 8:00 to 24:00, and the hotel provides a baby cot if you ask, stores luggage and offers laundry and ironing.
With children the triples work well. If there are four of you, ask first: the website only mentions doubles and triples.
Breakfast
It is what the house boasts about most, and it has the Greek Breakfast seal of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. Bread of the day from the village bakery, white and dark, home-made jams, eggs from their own hens, juices from the vegetable garden according to season or local fruit, and pies. You have it in the garden or on your balcony, as you prefer. If you leave early for Delphi or the pine forest, they can serve breakfast ahead of time or prepare it to take away.
Booking and getting there
The website asks you to book by phone for a better price, on +30 22650 41850, or by email. By car, Galaxidi is about two and a half hours from Athens via Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; you park at the door. By KTEL bus, the stop is a few minutes' walk away.

## Car-free: To Galaxidi by Bus from Athens
Without a car, Galaxidi is just as enjoyable: it is a village for walking between the two harbours and the pine forest. KTEL buses leave Athens and take about two and a half to three hours, with connections at Itea and Livadia.
Presupuesto orientativo: 60–110 € por persona y día.
### Dónde dormir without a car
- **Ganimede Hotel** (Small hotel): The house
Ganimede is a nineteenth-century captain's house on a quiet street in the centre of Galaxidi, five minutes' walk from the harbour. From 1966 it was run by the Italian Bruno Perrocco, who made it famous, and in 2003 Kostas and Chrysoula Papalexi took it over and still follow their jam and chutney recipes. The heart of the house is the courtyard, a garden where you have breakfast, read or have a drink in the afternoon. It has three official stars.
The rooms
The superior rooms, on the first floor, measure 17 or 20 m² and have their own or a shared balcony onto the village and the garden, for two or three people. The standard rooms, 12 to 14 m², are on the garden floor or have a shared balcony. The traditional suite, 40 m², has a fireplace, a full kitchen and a mezzanine with two beds: it suits a family of four. The Deluxe and the Modern Suite, also with kitchens, are for two to four people. All have air conditioning, heating, wifi, a fridge and coffee and tea.
Breakfast
It is the reason many people come back: assorted breads, sponge cakes with lemon cream, home-made jams, local ham and cheese, sweet or savoury tiganites, milk pie, chutney, fruit, eggs cooked to order and freshly squeezed juice. In good weather, in the garden; in winter, in the dining room by the fireplace.
Getting there
By car, about two and a half hours from Athens by the Lamia motorway, Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; Delphi is half an hour away. By KTEL bus from Athens, about two and a half to three hours. The house also organises cookery classes.
- **Porto Lourbas Hotel** (Hotel): The hotel
Porto Lourbas is on the Itea road, at the entrance to Galaxidi, facing the sea with a view of the village and the Gulf of Corinth. It is surrounded by its own olive grove, whose oil and olives end up on the breakfast table. It has a garden with a stone fountain, a pool with a sea view and a bar beside it, and three official stars. Delphi is 32 km away.
The rooms
Decorated one by one, with air conditioning, a private bathroom, TV and a balcony with a view. Simple and traditional.
Eating
The hotel restaurant, open to its guests, serves home cooking with quality produce and some dishes of its own. The Greek breakfast recognised by the hotel chamber includes the day's bread, fritters, home-made cheese pies, vegetable pies with courgette or leek, eggs with tomato, olives and local honey, semolina halva and lemonade made from the garden's lemons.
Getting there
By car, past Itea, the coast road reaches the hotel before the village; the centre of Galaxidi is a walk away. Parking is no problem.
- **Hotel Galaxidi** (Hotel): The hotel
Hotel Galaxidi is a small hotel on Andrea Syngrou Street, a quiet street about 70 metres from the big harbour. It is what you want if you arrive by car: it has free parking in front of the door, something you appreciate in the narrow streets of central Galaxidi. On foot, in a couple of minutes you are at the quayside terraces, and in ten at the Nautical Museum or climbing up to Agios Nikolaos. The house does not publish an official star rating on its website.
The rooms
They are doubles and triples, renovated, spread over the first and second floors. The website photos show simple, clean rooms, with beds with wooden headboards, a desk, long curtains and paintings of ships, and new bathrooms with a walk-in shower. All have their own balcony, air conditioning and free wifi, and are cleaned every day. Reception is open from 8:00 to 24:00, and the hotel provides a baby cot if you ask, stores luggage and offers laundry and ironing.
With children the triples work well. If there are four of you, ask first: the website only mentions doubles and triples.
Breakfast
It is what the house boasts about most, and it has the Greek Breakfast seal of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. Bread of the day from the village bakery, white and dark, home-made jams, eggs from their own hens, juices from the vegetable garden according to season or local fruit, and pies. You have it in the garden or on your balcony, as you prefer. If you leave early for Delphi or the pine forest, they can serve breakfast ahead of time or prepare it to take away.
Booking and getting there
The website asks you to book by phone for a better price, on +30 22650 41850, or by email. By car, Galaxidi is about two and a half hours from Athens via Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; you park at the door. By KTEL bus, the stop is a few minutes' walk away.
### Servicios
- **KTEL Bus from Athens to Galaxidi**: KTEL intercity buses from Athens, Livadia and Itea · about 2 h 30 to 3 h from Athens

## By plane: Fly to Athens, Then Car or Bus to Galaxidi
You get to Galaxidi by flying to Athens, with direct flights from Madrid, Barcelona and other Spanish cities. From the airport it is about 230 km, around two hours and three quarters by car via the Attiki Odos, the Lamia motorway and the Delphi road. By bus, the KTEL services leave from central Athens and take about two and a half to three hours.
### Dónde dormir if you're flying
- **Ganimede Hotel** (Small hotel): The house
Ganimede is a nineteenth-century captain's house on a quiet street in the centre of Galaxidi, five minutes' walk from the harbour. From 1966 it was run by the Italian Bruno Perrocco, who made it famous, and in 2003 Kostas and Chrysoula Papalexi took it over and still follow their jam and chutney recipes. The heart of the house is the courtyard, a garden where you have breakfast, read or have a drink in the afternoon. It has three official stars.
The rooms
The superior rooms, on the first floor, measure 17 or 20 m² and have their own or a shared balcony onto the village and the garden, for two or three people. The standard rooms, 12 to 14 m², are on the garden floor or have a shared balcony. The traditional suite, 40 m², has a fireplace, a full kitchen and a mezzanine with two beds: it suits a family of four. The Deluxe and the Modern Suite, also with kitchens, are for two to four people. All have air conditioning, heating, wifi, a fridge and coffee and tea.
Breakfast
It is the reason many people come back: assorted breads, sponge cakes with lemon cream, home-made jams, local ham and cheese, sweet or savoury tiganites, milk pie, chutney, fruit, eggs cooked to order and freshly squeezed juice. In good weather, in the garden; in winter, in the dining room by the fireplace.
Getting there
By car, about two and a half hours from Athens by the Lamia motorway, Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; Delphi is half an hour away. By KTEL bus from Athens, about two and a half to three hours. The house also organises cookery classes.
- **Porto Lourbas Hotel** (Hotel): The hotel
Porto Lourbas is on the Itea road, at the entrance to Galaxidi, facing the sea with a view of the village and the Gulf of Corinth. It is surrounded by its own olive grove, whose oil and olives end up on the breakfast table. It has a garden with a stone fountain, a pool with a sea view and a bar beside it, and three official stars. Delphi is 32 km away.
The rooms
Decorated one by one, with air conditioning, a private bathroom, TV and a balcony with a view. Simple and traditional.
Eating
The hotel restaurant, open to its guests, serves home cooking with quality produce and some dishes of its own. The Greek breakfast recognised by the hotel chamber includes the day's bread, fritters, home-made cheese pies, vegetable pies with courgette or leek, eggs with tomato, olives and local honey, semolina halva and lemonade made from the garden's lemons.
Getting there
By car, past Itea, the coast road reaches the hotel before the village; the centre of Galaxidi is a walk away. Parking is no problem.
- **Hotel Galaxidi** (Hotel): The hotel
Hotel Galaxidi is a small hotel on Andrea Syngrou Street, a quiet street about 70 metres from the big harbour. It is what you want if you arrive by car: it has free parking in front of the door, something you appreciate in the narrow streets of central Galaxidi. On foot, in a couple of minutes you are at the quayside terraces, and in ten at the Nautical Museum or climbing up to Agios Nikolaos. The house does not publish an official star rating on its website.
The rooms
They are doubles and triples, renovated, spread over the first and second floors. The website photos show simple, clean rooms, with beds with wooden headboards, a desk, long curtains and paintings of ships, and new bathrooms with a walk-in shower. All have their own balcony, air conditioning and free wifi, and are cleaned every day. Reception is open from 8:00 to 24:00, and the hotel provides a baby cot if you ask, stores luggage and offers laundry and ironing.
With children the triples work well. If there are four of you, ask first: the website only mentions doubles and triples.
Breakfast
It is what the house boasts about most, and it has the Greek Breakfast seal of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. Bread of the day from the village bakery, white and dark, home-made jams, eggs from their own hens, juices from the vegetable garden according to season or local fruit, and pies. You have it in the garden or on your balcony, as you prefer. If you leave early for Delphi or the pine forest, they can serve breakfast ahead of time or prepare it to take away.
Booking and getting there
The website asks you to book by phone for a better price, on +30 22650 41850, or by email. By car, Galaxidi is about two and a half hours from Athens via Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; you park at the door. By KTEL bus, the stop is a few minutes' walk away.

## As a family: Boats, Figureheads and a Pine Forest by the Water

Galaxidi is a quiet, flat village on the shore, good for going with children: boats in the harbour, a museum with figureheads and paintings of sailing ships, a pine forest with coves and, if you coincide with Clean Monday, a flour war that the whole village joins in.

### What works best
Watching the boats in the Agora harbour

The figureheads and ship paintings of the Nautical Museum

The pine forest and the coves east of the harbour

The Clean Monday flour war, in old clothes

### Where to stay
Ganimede Hotel, with a family suite with a mezzanine

Porto Lourbas, with a seafront pool

### Where to eat
Harbour terraces, with fish and ravani for dessert

### Bear in mind
The museum closes at 15:00 and on Mondays

The streets in the centre have slopes and steps: a backpack is better than a pushchair

### Qué hacer as a family
- Galaxidi's Harbours and the Captains' Houses
- Galaxidi Nautical and Historical Museum
- Church of Agios Nikolaos in Galaxidi
- Walk Through the Pine Forest and Coast of Galaxidi
- The Alevromoutzouroma, the Flour War of Clean Monday

## Consejos

### Stop at Delphi on the way
It is on the route; you reach Galaxidi for sunset.

### The museum closes at 15:00
And on Mondays: plan around it.

### Book Clean Monday early
That weekend the village fills up.

## Preguntas frecuentes

### How far is Galaxidi from Athens?
About 215 km, two and a half hours by car. By KTEL bus, two and a half to three hours.

### And from Delphi?
Half an hour by car, going down via Itea.

### What is there to see in Galaxidi?
The two harbours and the captains' houses, the church of St Nicholas, the Nautical Museum and the pine wood by the sea.

### How much does the Galaxidi Nautical Museum cost?
€3; it opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 15:00.

### What is the alevromoutzouroma?
The flour war with coloured flour and soot that the village holds every Clean Monday, at the start of Orthodox Lent.