Kastelli
Kastelli, often called Kastelli Pediadas to differentiate it from Kissamos is a village and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,440 residents
- Description: town in Minoa Pediada municipality, Heraklion, Crete
- Also known as: “Kastéli”, “Kastelli, Heraklion”, “Kastéllion”, “Kastéllion Pedhiádhos”, “Kastéllion Pedíada”, and “Καστέλι”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kasteli Air Base and Papoura Hill Circular Structure.
Kasteli Air Base
Aerodrome
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kasteli International Airport — also known as the New International Airport of Heraklion, Crete — is an international airport under construction on the Greek island of Crete.
Papoura Hill Circular Structure
Archaeological site
The Papoura Hill Circular Structure is a large Minoan architectural ensemble dated to between 2000 and 1700 BCE, constructed of several concentric circles located at the highest point of Papoura hill, northwest of the town of Kastelli on the island of Crete, Greece.
Lyktos
Archaeological site
Lyktos was a city in ancient Crete. During the Classical and Roman periods, it was one of the major settlements on the island. Its ruins are located near the modern-day village of Lyttos in the municipality of Minoa Pediada, Heraklion Regional Unit. Lyktos is situated 3 km east of Kastelli.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polithea and Archangelos.
Kastelli
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Minoa Pediada, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.20903° or 35° 12′ 33″ northLongitude
25.33666° or 25° 20′ 12″ eastPopulation
1,440Elevation
338 metres (1,109 feet)Open location code
8G77685P+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 268424644OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
260804Wikidata ID
Q845105
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Kastelli” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاستيليون، إراكليون”
- Arabic: “كاستيليون”
- Asturian: “Kastelli”
- Catalan: “Kasteli”
- Cebuano: “Kastélli”
- Dutch: “Kastelli”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاستيليون”
- Finnish: “Kastélli”
- French: “Kastélli”
- German: “Kastelli”
- Greek: “Καστέλι Πεδιάδας”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι Πεδιάδας”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι Πεδιάδος Ηρακλείου”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι Πεδιάδος”
- Greek: “Καστέλλι”
- Greek: “Καστέλλιον”
- Italian: “Kasteli”
- Japanese: “カステリ”
- Limburgan: “Kastelli”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kastélli”
- Persian: “کاستلی (هراکلیون)”
- Persian: “کاستلی”
- Portuguese: “Castéli”
- Russian: “Кастелион”
- Spanish: “Kasteli”
- Swedish: “Kastélli”
- Turkish: “Kasteli”
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