HOW TO GET TO IOANNINA

By Plane: There are two flights from Athens to Ioannina Airport per day offered by Aegean-Olympic Airways.
By Car: The town is 410 km. from Athens. Egnatia Motorway, a modern motorway of international standards connects Ioannina to Thessaloniki (270 km).
By Bus: Ioannina is connected by bus with Athens and Thessaloniki, with a lot of itineraries a day. Also, all the villages and coasts of Epirus and Ioannina are connected by public bus.
Bus Station: Papandreou 45, Tel: 2651025014/2651027442, 2651026211/2651026286
By Boat: Igoumenitsa’s Port is currently the third port in size in Greece but considered as no1 as far as the country commercial access. It is situated in the northwest part of mainland Epirus, opposite Corfu Island (18 nautical miles) and very close to the borders between Greece and Albania. It lies 92 km. (half an hour) away from Ioannina. The geographical position of the port turned the city of Igoumenitsa into the most important commercial harbour of Northwest Greece.

PARKING IN THE CITY
The best way for a visitor to see Ioannina is to “walk” through  the whole city. Leave your car in one of the city’s many parking lots and walk on foot. In the center, just below the clock tower, is the open-air parking lot of the municipality of Ioannina. A few meters above, on the back and below the main square, there is underground parking. Another, open-air, is at the beginning of the Mich. Angelos street, opposite the square, at the top corner of the large building of the Region of Epirus.
* Near the lake, in the area of ​​the old slaughterhouses, near the castle and the old market, there is free large public outdoor parking.

FREE WIFI
Free wireless internet access, via mobile or laptop, is offered by the municipality of Ioannina to residents and visitors to the city. The wireless network already covers the busiest points in the center and important nodes of peripheral areas, and it is constantly expanding to more and more points. In the city center, existing free wireless internet access places:
In the central square, the Town Hall, the Koletti pedestrian street (as the offices of the Technical Service), the Zosimades National Stadium, the Municipal Art Gallery, the Municipal Office (the offices), the cultural multi-site “D. Hatzis “(in the Old Slaughterhouses), K. Frodzos Folk Museum, in Kiafa, EANKI (in the tower), Hatzi Square, KADAP “Roda”, the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina and the surrounding area, the Moulaymidou pedestrian street, the Nursing home, the square of Pargis (at Pirsinella Street), KE.P.B.I. and the pier in the lake that binds the boats to the island.
Outside the city, access to the wireless internet is provided at the central points of the islet, the Perama Cave, the Panepistic Stadium and the villages, Katsikas (in the square), Koutselio, Loggades, Iliokali, Karadima Dafnoula, Harokopi, Mouzakai, Platanias, Amfithea, Kastritsa , Ambelia, Bizani, Stavraki, Marbles, Neochoropoulos, Kranoula, Kosmira, Asvestohori, Kontsika, Kryovrysi, Mazia and Bafra.
* The reach of Internet access from each point is about 150 meters and depending on the user’s location and the obstacles that interfere with.

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS

Tourist Police Station
26510 65922, 28 Octovriou 11
Drugstores
26510 23333 / 26510 26758
University hospital
26510 99111
Hatzikosta Hospital
26510 80111
Ambulance
26510 54330 / 166
Gas stations
26510 33888
Car service
EXPRESS SERVICE: 154
HELLAS SERVICE: 1057
INTERAMERICAN: 168
Post office
26510 26437, M.Botsari 1
Municipal police    
26510 01014 / 26510 01008, Averoff 6
Fire Station
26510 70500 / 199