Lixouri
Lixouri is a town and a municipality in the island of Kefalonia, the largest of the Ionian Islands of western Greece. It is the main town on the peninsula of Paliki, and the second largest town in Kefalonia after Argostoli and before Sami.Photo: Christos Vittoratos, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Town with 3,750 residents
- Description: town of Kefalonia, Greece
- Also known as: “Lixoúrion”
- Postal code: 28200
Places of Interest
Highlights include Iakovateios Library, Lixouri and Lighthouse Agion Theodoron.
Lighthouse Agion Theodoron
Lighthouse
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lighthouse Agion Theodoron is situated 2½ km east of Lixouri.
Water mill, Katavothres Argostoliou
Watermill
Photo: Fæ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Water mill, Katavothres Argostoliou is situated 3 km east of Lixouri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agios Dimitrios and Mantzavinata.
Agios Dimitrios
Village
Agios Dimitrios is a village, about 2 miles north of Lixouri in the Paliki peninsula of Cephalonia. The village which lies on the hillside just above the gulf of Argostoli and is a five-minute drive along the main road out of Lixouri. Agios Dimitrios is situated 3½ km north of Lixouri.
Mantzavinata
Village
Photo: Christos Vittoratos, CC BY 2.5.
Mantzavinata is a village in the southwest of Kefalonia island, 4 km southwest of Lixouri on the Paliki peninsula. Mantzavinata is famous for its wines, a wine festival is held each August in Mantzavinata. Mantzavinata is situated 3½ km southwest of Lixouri.
Favatata
Village
Photo: Maroulis Gerasimos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Favatata is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Lixouri.
Lixouri
- Category: locality
- Location: Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.20026° or 38° 12′ 1″ northLongitude
20.43874° or 20° 26′ 19″ eastPopulation
3,750Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR LIXOpen location code
8GC26C2Q+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 288822128OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Lixouri” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليكسوري”
- Armenian: “Լիկսուրիոն”
- Asturian: “Lixouri”
- Azerbaijani: “Liksurion”
- Belarusian: “Ліксурыон”
- Catalan: “Lixuri”
- Cebuano: “Lixoúri”
- Chinese: “利克苏里”
- Chinese: “利克苏里翁”
- Croatian: “Liksuri”
- Czech: “Lixouri”
- Danish: “Lixouri”
- Dutch: “Lixouri”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليكسورى”
- Finnish: “Lixoúri”
- French: “Lixoúri”
- German: “Lixouri”
- Greek: “Ληξούρι”
- Greek: “Ληξούριον”
- Hungarian: “Lixúri”
- Italian: “Lixouri”
- Italian: “Līxouri”
- Japanese: “リクスリ”
- Latin: “Lexurium”
- Narom: “Lixouri”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lixoúri”
- Persian: “لیکسوری”
- Polish: “Lixouri”
- Portuguese: “Lixouri”
- Portuguese: “Lixúri”
- Romanian: “Lixouri”
- Russian: “Ликсурион”
- Serbian: “Ликсури”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Liksuri”
- Spanish: “Lixouri”
- Swedish: “Lixoúri”
- Ukrainian: “Ліксуріон”
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