Phaistos
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete.Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Historical site
- Description: ancient Greek city in Crete
- Also known as: “Archaía Pólis Faistós”, “Faistós”, “Festos”, “Mint of Phaestus”, “Phaestos”, “Phaestus”, and “Phaistós”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Palace of Phaistos and Central Court.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Voroi and Petrokefali.
Petrokefali
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petrokefali is a village, which is situated 3 km southeast of Phaistos.
Sivas
Village
Photo: Rob de Vries, CC BY 2.0.
Sivas is a village, which is situated 3½ km south of Phaistos.
Phaistos
- Categories: archaeological site, polis, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Faistos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Phaistos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Phaistos”
- Arabic: “فيستوس”
- Armenian: “Ֆեստոս”
- Basque: “Festo”
- Belarusian: “Фест”
- Bulgarian: “Фестос”
- Catalan: “Festos”
- Catalan: “Phaistos”
- Chinese: “斐斯托斯”
- Chinese: “菲斯托斯”
- Czech: “Faistos”
- Danish: “Festos”
- Dutch: “Festos”
- Dutch: “Phaestus”
- Dutch: “Phaistos”
- Finnish: “Faistos”
- French: “Festos”
- French: “Phaestos”
- French: “Phaestus”
- French: “Phaistos”
- French: “Phaïstos”
- Georgian: “ფესტოსი”
- German: “Phaistos”
- Greek: “Φαιστός”
- Hebrew: “פאיסטוס”
- Hungarian: “Phaisztosz”
- Indonesian: “Phaestos”
- Indonesian: “Phaestus”
- Indonesian: “Phaistos”
- Italian: “Festo”
- Japanese: “ファイストス”
- Latin: “Phaestus”
- Lithuanian: “Faistas”
- Macedonian: “Фест”
- Macedonian: “Фестос”
- Persian: “فیستوس”
- Polish: “Fajstos”
- Portuguese: “Faesto (Creta)”
- Portuguese: “Faestos (Creta)”
- Portuguese: “Faistó (Creta)”
- Portuguese: “Faistós (Creta)”
- Portuguese: “Festo”
- Portuguese: “Festos (Creta)”
- Portuguese: “Phaistos (Creta)”
- Romanian: “Phaistos”
- Russian: “Фест”
- Serbian: “Фестос”
- Slovak: “Faistos”
- Slovenian: “Fajstos”
- Spanish: “Festo”
- Spanish: “Festos”
- Spanish: “Phaistos”
- Swedish: “Faistos”
- Swiss German: “Phaistos”
- Tatar: “Фест борынгы каласы”
- Tosk Albanian: “Phaistos”
- Turkish: “Phaestus”
- Turkish: “Phaistos”
- Turkish: “Phayttus”
- Ukrainian: “Фест”
- Urdu: “فیستوس”
- Western Armenian: “Ֆեսթոս”
- “𐀞𐀂𐀵”
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