# Three ideal destinations for spontaneous Easter excursion near Athens
If you did not have time to schedule Easter, there are three destinations near Athens ideal for one day escape. The **Dervenohoria**Just an hour from the capital, they offer authentic Rumelian experience with skewer lamb in pits and magnificent views from Parnitha. The **Death**, accessible from Piraeus in an hour with dolphin, combine volcanic landscape, thermal sources and fresh fish in picturesque fishing villages. The **Walnuts** in Evia, three hours from Athens, offers medieval castles, seaside taverns with local lambs and opportunities for surfing.
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Three beautiful places near Athens where you can go spend Sunday Easter Even if you decide last minute.
Normally Easter escapes need preparation. We should find company, arrange for her. licence, book a stay and a transport, shop and pack. But sometimes the key to a traveler’s happiness and the success of a journey is spontaneity. So if you haven't planned anything and it's already Big Saturday, don't worry, below you have three destinations that are so close to Athens and so suitable for Easter that you can go and have fun even if you decide on Sunday morning and you don't even find company.
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Dervenohoria
Dervenohoria is part of Rumelis So if you get there, you'll live Easter in its most authentic version. Besides, he's so close to Athens (1 hour by car) he doesn't want much thought. It is worth going even last minute just to eat divine skewered lamb (they bake them in line in pits) and cokoresi groomed, even if you have to turn a coffee cap to the city that another company is waiting for you. In any of the six villages, however, the beauty of the mountains is equally magical. You're practically in the northwest of Parnithas For this green and fresh air abounds. Besides, because the settlements are built on plateaus at any point, you'll have a great view. So if you have time, before or after, the meat consumption, take a walk up the mountain and don't be a hard-core walker. We don't even need to talk about food, let alone analyze anything. Like we said, you're in Rumeli, and that says everything. So in Dervenohoria everything is produced: pork, sheep and goats, poultry, cheese, etc. Seek them in local butcher taverns and enjoy them traditionalally just as they should.
Death
In Methana you go from Piraeus, in an hour with the dolphin, or by road from Athens-Corinth in about a three-hour period. It is a place relaxed, full of green and with incredible sea views. It is essentially a small peninsula near Argolida that if you see it from the sea side (to land) you think you are on an island. The place has been known, since ancient times, for its healing springs and baths while today visitors also enjoy the routes in nature and the general calm it offers. So if you want to find your peace this Easter, Methana is the perfect choice. So go for a walk around the volcano and if it has good weather throw the first dives of the season into the blue-green waters of the Saronic. If you love fishing you will have a great time since they are full of fishing villages (Vathi, Agios Georgios, Megalohori) in which you can make an alternative Easter by enjoying barbounia, gossip, cod, phakry, and even Norway lobsters in taverns. Of course, it also has merkledic grills which on that day will have their honor. Don't forget, before you go and try the local spoon candy and the wonderful almonds.
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Walnuts
Okay, we said and said again that Central Greece holds the scepters of the Greek Easter but Evia does not go back. One coastal cityBut with an interesting mountain track, it's perfect for that day is Karystos. In three hours you'll be there, either you get a car or you go by boat. Spring weather is ideal for cycling in the harbor, going up to the medieval Kokkinokastro or visiting the Venetian fortress. The beach of course is full of taverns, and so are the nearby villages. There, as a rule, you are happy to eat fresh fish and seafood, but also the famous local lambs which have certainly been sown on Easter Sunday. In most shops you will also find handmade pasta which is delicious, especially the barbershops. For a bath, you'll go out to the most pristine places you can take from a simple dive to a surf. In any case, either you want to walk or you want to swim or you've just gone to eat watching it. mountain Or the sea Karystos will cover you in the best way.
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