Car Hire Araxos Patras Airport

Patras is a city in southwestern of Greece on the Southeast side of the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Patras with nearly 180,000 inhabitants on an area of more than 125 km2. The impressive Harbour is one of the most important in the country, where even after Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, the fourth largest town in Greece is Patras. It is picturesquely embedded between the foothills of the Panachaiko mountains and the Ionian Sea.

Patras was already settled by the Phoenicians in the pre-Christian period. Later the first Christian communities founded here on European mainland and the city became the starting point for the Christianization of the world's beginning. The Apostle of Andreas to have died in Patras the martyrdom and is still today venerated as a Saint. In the course of its history, the city experienced many different rulers, who all left their marks in the city. These included also German, French and Turks. Patras was almost destroyed in 1821, as here, the Greek revolution had begun. However, due to its exposed location of the Lake it was rebuilt very quickly with intuitive architecture.

With a rental car, you have the opportunity to cross the second longest cable-stayed bridge of the world, the 2.252 M-long Rion Antrion bridge, near the town of Patras, which today connects the Peloponnese to the Mainland. Annually, there is a State of emergency, its even hard derelicts Rhinelander Länge fade can be in the city however. Just two months around 50,000 Karnevalisten celebrate the biggest party in Greece here in the Carnival stronghold of Eastern Europe in the winter. In 2006, Patras was appointed to the European capital of culture.

Patras is a journey worth all the year round.