Igoumenitsa New port

Igoumenitsa is a city in Epirus.

Understand

Igoumenitsa is a main gateway to Northern Greece, being the arrival port of many ferry services from Ancona, Bari, Brindisi, and Venice in Italy. It's also the starting point of "Egnatia Odos", a modern motorway which ends to the Greek–Turkish border at Kipoi, providing a fast access to Thessaloniki and Istanbul.

With a population of around 25,000 people, Igoumenitsa is a relatively large town, close to some pleasant beaches.

Get in

By bus

1 KTEL intercity buses operates 5 daily trips to/from Ioannina and 2 daily trips to/from Thessaloniki. Other buses to Parga (via Sivota) but no services on Saturday or Sunday.

By boat

ANEK Lines,Superfast Ferries and Minoan Lines operate a daily service from Ancona, Bari and Trieste. Grimaldi ferries sail from Brindisi to Igoumenitsa twice a day.

Sleep

• 1 Acropolis, ☏ +30 26650 28346. (updated Feb 2016)
• Egnatia, ☏ +30 26650 23648. (updated Feb 2016)
• 2 El Greco. (updated Feb 2016)
• Stavrodromi, 16, Souliou, ☏ +30 26650 22343. (updated Feb 2016)

Go next

• Ioannina
• The seaside resort of 1 Sivota is just 25 km away.