Messene
Messene, officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit of Messenia in the region of Peloponnese. It is best known for the ruins of the large classical city-state of Ancient Messene.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rossignol Benoît, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient Greek city in Peloponnese
- Also known as: “Ancient Messini”, “Messine”, and “Ruins of Messene”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Messene Asclepeion and Artemision.
Messene Asclepeion
Archaeological site
Photo: Ioannis Houvardas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Messene Asclepeion is an archaeological site.
Artemision
Ruins
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Artemision is a ruins, which is situated 110 metres north of Messene.
Treasury House
Archaeological site
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Treasury House is an archaeological site, which is situated 180 metres north of Messene.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mavromati and Arsinoi.
Arsinoi
Village
Arsinoi is a local community of the municipal unit Ithomi, of the municipality of Messini within the regional unit of Messenia in the region of Peloponnese, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided.
Labena
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Labena is a village, which is situated 5 km southeast of Messene.
Messene
- Categories: ancient city, archaeological site, polis, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Messene, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.17493° or 37° 10′ 30″ northLongitude
21.91986° or 21° 55′ 12″ eastElevation
333 metres (1,093 feet)Open location code
8G935WF9+XWOpenStreetMap ID
way 280618725OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
257151Wikidata ID
Q1022117
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Messene” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميسيني”
- Bulgarian: “Месена”
- Catalan: “Messene”
- Cebuano: “Messíni”
- Chinese: “美西尼”
- Chinese: “麦西尼”
- Chinese: “墨塞涅”
- Czech: “Messene”
- Danish: “Messene”
- Dutch: “Messina”
- Finnish: “Messene”
- French: “Messene”
- French: “Messène”
- French: “Messini”
- German: “Messene”
- Greek: “Αρχαία Μεσσήνη”
- Greek: “Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Αρχαίας Μεσσήνης”
- Greek: “Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος Μεσσήνης”
- Greek: “Μεσσάνα”
- Greek: “Μεσσήνη”
- Hungarian: “Messzéné”
- Indonesian: “Messene”
- Italian: “Messene (città antica)”
- Japanese: “メシニ”
- Japanese: “メッセネ”
- Latin: “Messene”
- Latvian: “Mesini”
- Persian: “مسینی”
- Polish: “Mesini”
- Portuguese: “Messene”
- Romanian: “Messene”
- Russian: “Мессена”
- Russian: “Мессина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mesena”
- Slovak: “Messene”
- Slovenian: “Mesena”
- Spanish: “Mesene”
- Spanish: “Messini”
- Spanish: “Messíni”
- Swedish: “Messíni”
- Swiss German: “Messene”
- Tamil: “மெஸ்சீன்”
- Tatar: “Мессене борынгы каласы”
- Tosk Albanian: “Messene”
- Turkish: “Messene”
- Ukrainian: “Месіні”
- Ukrainian: “Мессі”
- Ukrainian: “Мессіни”
- Ukrainian: “Мессіні”
- Vietnamese: “Messene”
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