Xylokastro
Xylokastro is a seaside town and a former municipality in Corinthia in the Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xylokastro-Evrostina, of which it is a unit or component.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,390 residents
- Description: town in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece
- Also known as: “Xilókastron” and “Xylókastron”
- Postal code: 20400
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sikelianos Villa in Sykia.
Sikelianos Villa in Sykia
Residential building
Photo: PLAKLE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sikelianos Villa in Sykia is a residential building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Geliniatika and Sykea.
Geliniatika
Village
Geliniatika is a village and a community belonging to the municipality of Xylokastro-Evrostina, in the regional unit of Corinthia, Greece. The next major settlement is Sykia, approximately 4 km to the north. Geliniatika is situated 2½ km southeast of Xylokastro.
Sykea
Village
Sykia is a village and a community on the northern coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, belonging to the municipality of Xylokastro-Evrostina in Corinthia. Sykea is situated 3 km southeast of Xylokastro.
Thalero
Village
Thalero is a village in Corinthia, Greece. It is located 2 kilometers from the Gulf of Corinth, close to the city of Xylokastro. Its original name was Tholero, the water, but it was changed to Thalero, originating from the ancient Greek word “thalos”, which means blooming. Thalero is situated 5 km southeast of Xylokastro.
Xylokastro
- Category: locality
- Location: Xylokastro-Evrostina, Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.07832° or 38° 4′ 42″ northLongitude
22.63304° or 22° 37′ 59″ eastPopulation
5,390Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR XYLOpen location code
8GC43JHM+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 301281436OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Xylokastro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كسيلوكاسترو”
- Armenian: “Քսիլոկաստրոն”
- Asturian: “Xylokastro”
- Catalan: “Xilocastre”
- Cebuano: “Xylókastro”
- Chinese: “克西洛卡斯特罗”
- Chinese: “克西洛卡斯特龙”
- Chinese: “西洛卡特倫”
- Dutch: “Xylokastro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كسيلوكاسترو”
- Finnish: “Xylókastro”
- French: “Xylokastro”
- French: “Xylókastro”
- German: “Xylokastro”
- Greek: “Ξυλόκαστρο”
- Greek: “Ξυλόκαστρον”
- Hebrew: “קסילוקסטרו”
- Italian: “Xylokastro”
- Japanese: “クシロカストロ”
- Korean: “실로카스트로”
- Lithuanian: “Ksilokastras”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xylókastro”
- Persian: “زیلوکاسترو”
- Romanian: “Xylokastron”
- Russian: “Ксилокастрон”
- Swedish: “Xylókastro”
- Turkish: “İksilokastro”
- Ukrainian: “Ксілокастро”
- “Xylokastro”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Xylokastro”. Photo: Pom445, CC BY-SA 4.0.