Sisi
Sisi, or Sissi is a small Greek resort in the municipal unit Vrachasi, Agios Nikolaos, Lasithi, Crete. It is situated on the north coast, 6 km northwest of Vrachasi and 6 km east of Malia, 22 km northwest of Agios Nikolaos and 35 km east of Heraklion.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stegop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: village in Lasithi, Greece
- Also known as: “Káto Sísi”, “Sisi, Crete”, and “Sision”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Malia Palace and Agios Georgios Selinari.
Malia Palace
Archaeological site
Malia is a Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site located on the northern coast of Crete in the Heraklion area. It is about 35 kilometers east of the ancient site of Knossos and 40 kilometers east of the modern city of Heraklion. Malia Palace is situated 3½ km west of Sisi.
Agios Georgios Selinari
Church
Photo: Moroder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Georgios Selinari is a church, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Sisi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milatos and Vrachasi.
Milatos
Village
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Milatos is a village, which is situated 3½ km east of Sisi.
Vrachasi
Village
Vrachasi is a village and a former municipality in the Lasithi regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Agios Nikolaos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 63.41 km2. Vrachasi is situated 5 km southeast of Sisi.
Malia
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Malia is in Crete. It is 34 kilometres east of Heraklion, the Cretan capital city. It is one of six Minoan Palatial Centres to be listed as a world heritage site.
Sisi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Agios Nikolaos, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
35.30418° or 35° 18′ 15″ northLongitude
25.52571° or 25° 31′ 33″ eastPopulation
1,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
8G778G3G+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1457663926OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
253770Wikidata ID
Q3565823
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sisi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيشن”
- Cebuano: “Sísion”
- Dutch: “Sisi”
- Dutch: “Sissi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيسى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قريه سيسى”
- Finnish: “Sísi”
- French: “Sísi”
- French: “Sissi”
- German: “Sisi”
- German: “Sissi”
- Greek: “Σείσι”
- Greek: “Σίσι Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Σίσι”
- Greek: “Σίσιον”
- Portuguese: “Sisi”
- Portuguese: “Sissi (Creta)”
- Russian: “Сиси”
- Spanish: “Sisi (Creta)”
- Spanish: “Sisi”
- Swedish: “Sísion”
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