Geography
Nea Peramos is situated in the eastern portion of the Megaris plain, in the northwestern part of the agglomeration of Athens. Mountains are situated to the north, and the Saronic Gulf to the south. Nea Peramos offers a panorama of the island of Salamis. Greek National Road 8A/E94 (Athens - Corinth - Patras) and the commuter rail Proastiakos pass through Nea Peramos. The beaches of Nea Peramos are popular with tourists. It is located about 8 km E of Megara, about 35 km W of Athens, about 50 km east of Corinth and S of Thiva.
The area around Nea Peramos is made up of residential and urban areas. There are farmlands to the west. Bushes, grasslands, deforested areas cover the north and east. Suburban housing arrived in the 1970s and continued in the 1990s. Its main suburbs are Neraki and Loutropyrgos to the east and Aghios Panteleimon and Vlyhada to the north-northeast (taking the fishing harbour as the central point).
Landmark buildings include the two tall (12-storied and 10-storied) blocks of flats, the Church of St. George, the N. Petkas Traditional Olive Press (currently (Oct. '11)under reconstruction), which has been donated to the Association of Peramians Kyzikians and the former Town Hall, all of them on 28 October st. (the Old National Highway) which traverses the town parallel to the coast.
Nea Peramos has a few schools (a lyceum - high school, a gymnasium - junior high school and four primary schools), banks, two KAPI (day care centres for elderly people), a post office and a train station (line Athens - Corinth - Patras). Three military camps are located in town, among them the Artillery School and the Army Special Forces base. From its fishing harbour, a ferryboat line connects it to the island of Salamis, close to the Monastery of Panagia Faneromeni. The nearest hospital is in Megara.
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