Drapetsona (Greek: Δραπετσώνα) is a coastal town, a suburb and a former municipality in the southwestern part of the Piraeus regional unit in the Athens Urban Area.

In the 1830s Drapetsona was constituted of people who moved from Greek islands and settled near Saint Dionysios church in the area called Vourla.

In 1834 a part of the region was given to Piraeus in order to become a cemetery under the term of churches’ reconstruction.

There are plans to redevelop a 64 hectares (160 acres) section of the Drapetsona seafront on the Saronic Gulf, the location of the former Greek Company of Chemicals and Fertilisers [el] industrial complex, including the now abandoned Kanellopoulos Institute of Chemistry and Agriculture.

[5] "Drapetsona" is also the subject of a popular rebetiko song performed by folk singer Grigoris Bithikotsis in 1961 (Politia Vol.1).