Parnitha
Mount Parnitha is a lightly forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m, and a summit known as Karavola.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dimkoa, Public domain.
Photo: Dimkoa, Public domain.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,413 metres
- Description: mountain range in Acharnes municipality, Greece
- Also known as: “Ozea” and “Parnis Oros”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mountain Lodge Mpafi and Hotel Mont Parnes.
Mountain Lodge Mpafi
Mountain hut
Photo: Ziegler175, CC0.
The Bafi Refuge belongs to the Greek Mountaineering Club, E.O.S. Athens founded in 1928 in the Mount Parnitha National Park, at an altitude of 1160m, roughly 2.5 km from Mont Parness, inside the national park.
Hotel Mont Parnes
Casino
Photo: john vlahidis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Regency Casino Mont Parnes, also known as the Parnitha Casino, is a casino situated at Mount Parnitha north of Athens. Originally built as Hotel Mont Parnes, it was a luxury hotel designed by architect Pavlos Mylonas and was built between 1958 and 1961. Hotel Mont Parnes is situated 3 km southeast of Parnitha.
Mountain Lodge Flabouri
Mountain hut
Photo: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mountain Lodge Flabouri is a mountain hut, which is situated 3 km southeast of Parnitha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thrakomakedones and Tatoi Palace.
Thrakomakedones
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thrakomakedones, is a town in the regional unit East Attica, in Attica region, Greece. It is a northern suburb of Athens. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Acharnes, of which it is a municipal unit. Thrakomakedones is situated 6 km southeast of Parnitha.
Tatoi Palace
Locality
Photo: Aspioti-ELKA, Public domain.
Tatoi was the summer palace and 42 km2 estate of the former Greek royal family. The area is a densely wooded southeast-facing slope of Mount Parnitha, and its ancient and current official name is Dekeleia. Tatoi Palace is situated 7 km east of Parnitha.
Varympompi
Suburb
Varympompi or Varybobi is a suburb of Athens in the municipality of Acharnes, East Attica, Greece. Varympompi is situated 8 km southeast of Parnitha.
Parnitha
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Acharnes, East Attica, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Parnitha” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Парнита”
- Catalan: “Mont Parnes”
- Cebuano: “Párnis Óros”
- Chinese: “帕尼萨山”
- Danish: “Parnitha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارنيثا”
- Esperanto: “Parnizo”
- Finnish: “Párnitha”
- French: “Parnès”
- German: “Parnes”
- German: “Parnitha”
- Greek: “Πάρνηθα”
- Hebrew: “פארניטה”
- Italian: “Monte Parnitha”
- Italian: “Monte Párnitha”
- Italian: “Parnete”
- Italian: “Parnitha”
- Japanese: “パルニサ山”
- Japanese: “パルニタ山”
- Korean: “파르니타 산맥”
- Korean: “파르니타산맥”
- Latin: “Parnes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Parnithafjellet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Párnitha”
- Norwegian: “Parnithafjellet”
- Polish: “Parnita”
- Polish: “Parnitha”
- Russian: “Парнис”
- Russian: “Парнита”
- Serbian: “Парнита”
- Spanish: “Parnes”
- Spanish: “Parnés”
- Swedish: “Parnes”
- Swedish: “Parnesbergen”
- Turkish: “Parnita Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Парніта”
- Urdu: “پارنیتھا”
- Venetian: “Parnete”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Parnitha”. Photo: Dimkoa, Public domain.