Cycle Route EuroVelo: Mediterranean Route - Part Athens-Cueno (2016)
No. of cycle route EV8
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Cycle route metrics
Total distance in km
3.228
Cumulative elevation gain in m
37.934
Avg. slope uphill in %
1,18
Cumulative elevation loss in m
37.485
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Track points in total
42.003
Track points per km (avg)
13
Start/endpoint
Start location
Athens, Attica, GR (69 m NHN)
End location
Cuneo, Piemont, IT (518 m NHN)
Connecting cycle path
Weitere ehemalige Abschnitte des EuroVelo 8 in diesem Portal:
- Variante in Kroatien Benkovac-Triest (310 km)
Aktuelle Abschnitte des EuroVelo 8 in diesem Portal:
- Teilstück Athen-Cueno (3.536 km)
- Teilstück Cueno-Cádiz (2.917 km)
Remarks
Der in dieser Route hinterlegte Verlauf entspricht dem Planungsstand des EuroVelo 8 in 2012 bis 2016.
Die hier beschriebene Route setzt sich aus den bei OpenCycleMap verfügbaren Abschnitten der EV8, Routen der nationalen und regionalen Radwege-Netzwerke und aus selbst nach Beschreibungen zusammengestellten Abschnitten zusammen. Als Beschreibung wurde das Konzept-Dokument des EV8 verwendet (hier zu lesen).
Griechenland:
- selbst zusammengestellt auf Grundlage des Konzept-Dokuments und des Routenverlaufs auf der Karte der Eurovelo-Seite
Albanien:
- selbst zusammengestellt auf Grundlage des Konzept-Dokuments und des Routenverlaufs auf der Karte der Eurovelo-Seite
Montenegro:
- EuroVelo Route 8 auf OpenStreetMap
Kroatien
- EuroVelo Route 8 auf OpenStreetMap
Bosnien-Herzegowina:
- EuroVelo Route 8 auf OpenStreetMap
Slovenien:
- EuroVelo Route 8 auf OpenStreetMap
Italien:
- Grenze bis Portogruaro selbst zusammengestellt auf Grundlage des Konzept-Dokuments
- Portogruaro bis Cardè EuroVelo Route 8 auf OpenStreetMap, nationale und regionale Routen auf OpenStreetMap
- Cardè bis Cuenoselbst zusammengestellt auf Grundlage des Konzept-Dokuments
Beds4Cyclists, worth visiting and infrastructure
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Latitude / Longitude
Phone
Fax
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Type of accommodation
Route km
Dist. to route
Elevation AMSL
Rating for cyclists
92 km
2,3 km
8 m



The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, Dhioryga tis Korinthou) is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former peninsula an island. The builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level; no locks are employed. It is 6.4 kilometres (4.0 mi) in length and only 21.4 metres (70 ft) wide at its base, making it impassable for most modern ships. It now has little economic importance.
The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD. Construction finally got underway in 1881 but was hampered by geological and financial problems that bankrupted the original builders. It was completed in 1893, but due to the canal's narrowness, navigational problems and periodic closures to repair landslides from its steep walls, it failed to attract the level of traffic anticipated by its operators. It is now used mainly for tourist traffic.
The canal consists of a single channel 8 metres (26 ft) deep, excavated at sea level (thus requiring no locks), measuring 6,346 metres (20,820 ft) long by 24.6 metres (81 ft) wide at the top and 21.3 metres (70 ft) wide at the bottom. The rock walls, which rise 90 metres (300 ft) above sea level, are at a near-vertical 80° angle. The canal is crossed by a railway line, a road and a motorway at a height of about 45 metres (148 ft). In 1988 submersible bridges were installed at sea level at each end of the canal, by the eastern harbour of Isthmia and the western harbour of Poseidonia.
Although the canal saves the 700-kilometre (430 mi) journey around the Peloponnese, it is too narrow for modern ocean freighters, as it can only accommodate ships of a width of up to 16.5 metres (54 ft) and a draft of 7.3 metres (24 ft). Ships can only pass through the canal one at a time on a one-way system. Larger ships have to be towed by tugs. The canal is nowadays mostly used by tourist ships; 11,000 ships per year travel through the waterway.
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Wikipedia contributors, 'Corinth Canal', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 5 August 2014, 04:42 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corinth_Canal&oldid=619914543> [accessed 2 November 2014] |
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222 km
0,0 km
5 m
Hours of opening
Hours of sailing (updated 31.08.2019)
- every 20 minutes from 07:00 to 23:00 from Rio and from Antirrio
- every 45 minutes from 23:00 to 7:00 from Rio and from Antirrio
224 km
0,4 km
0 m

TheRio–Antirrio bridge (Greek: Γέφυρα Ρίου-Αντιρρίου), officially the Charilaos Trikoupis Bridge after the statesman who first envisaged it, is one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and the longest of the fully suspended type. It crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras
, linking the town of Rio
on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio
on mainland Greece by road.
The 2,880 m (9,449 ft) long bridge (approximately 1.8 miles) dramatically improves access to and from the Peloponnese, which could previously be reached only by ferry or via theisthmus of Corinth in the east. Its width is 28 m (92 ft) — it has two vehicle lanes per direction, an emergency lane and a pedestrian walkway. Its five-span four-pylon cable-stayed portion of length 2,252 m (7,388 ft) is the world's second longest cable-stayed deck; only the deck of the Millau Viaduct in southern France is longer at 2,460 m (8,071 ft). However, as the latter is also supported by bearings at the pylons apart from cable stays, the Rio–Antirrio bridge deck might be considered the longest cable-stayed "suspended" deck.
This bridge is widely considered to be an engineering masterpiece, owing to several solutions applied to span the difficult site. These difficulties include deep water, insecure materials for foundations, seismic activity, the probability of tsunamis, and the expansion of the Gulf of Corinth due to plate tectonics.
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Wikipedia contributors, 'Rio–Antirrio bridge',Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia,27 September 2014, 12:17 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rio%E2%80%93Antirrio_bridge&oldid=627271634> [accessed 9 October 2014] |
taken over / edited on | 10 Oct 2014
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225 km
0,1 km
0 m
Hours of opening
Hours of sailing (updated 31.08.2019)
- every 20 minutes from 07:00 to 23:00 from Rio and from Antirrio
- every 45 minutes from 23:00 to 7:00 from Rio and from Antirrio
235 km
0,1 km
2 m