Vari ( el, Βάρη) is a southern suburb of
Athens and former municipality in
East Attica,
Greece along the Athens coast. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni, of which it is a municipal unit.
[ nasterjd, on Athena (capital).] The municipal unit has an area of 22.633 km
2.
Geography
It lies at the southwestern end of the
Mesogeia plain and the southeast shoulder of the
Hymettus mountain, near the
Saronic Gulf coast.
Greek National Road 91 connects Vari with Athens city centre and
Sounio
Cape Sounion (Modern Greek: Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο ''Akrotírio Soúnio'' ; grc, Ἄκρον Σούνιον ''Άkron Soúnion'', latinized ''Sunium''; Venetian: ''Capo Colonne'' "Cape of Columns") is the promontory at the southernmost ...
. Vari's beach is located in an area called
Varkiza, a fishing village that joined the municipality of Vari, in 1997. This particular beach has won the
blue flag many years in the past, including 2009.
After 1 January 2011 Vari joined
Voula and
Vouliagmeni, according to Kallikratis regulations, in a joined municipality. Grigoris Konstantellos is the incumbent mayor, elected for a second term at May 26, 2019, for the unified municipality of Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni. The ancient Athenian
deme of
Anagyrous
Anagyrus or Anagyrous ( grc, Ἀναγυροῦς), also Anagyruntus or Anagyrountos (), was a deme of ancient Attica, belonging to the ''phyle'' Erechtheis, situated in the south of Attica near the promontory Zoster. Pausanias mentions at this p ...
was situated here.
Historical population
See also
*
List of municipalities of Attica
References
External links
Official website
{{Authority control
Populated places in East Attica
Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni
