Desfina
Desfina is a town and a former municipality in the southern part of Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Delphi, of which it is a municipal unit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prodromos Monastery Desfina.
Prodromos Monastery Desfina
Church
Photo: Geomanjo, Public domain.
Prodromos Monastery Desfina is a church, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Desfina.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirra and Chrisso.
Kirra
Village
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirra is a village in Phocis, Central Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Itea, to which it is adjacent. Kirra is the point where the Pleistos river meets the Gulf of Iteas, a bay of the Gulf of Corinth. Kirra is situated 7 km west of Desfina.
Chrisso
Village
Photo: Costas78, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chrisso is a village in Phocis, Greece. The modern village sits north of the ancient town of Crissa, a powerful city-state of ancient Greece which gave its name to the Crissaean plain and the Crissaean Gulf and lies in the southwestern foothills of Mount Parnassus. Chrisso is situated 8 km northwest of Desfina.
Arachova
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arachova is a mountain town and a former municipality in the western part of Boeotia. Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit, part of the municipality Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra. Arachova is situated 8 km northeast of Desfina.
Desfina
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Delphi, Phocis, Central Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.41703° or 38° 25′ 1″ northLongitude
22.52919° or 22° 31′ 45″ eastPopulation
1,850Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)Open location code
8GC4CG8H+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 286432939OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
263171Wikidata ID
Q1232216
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Desfina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ديسفينا”
- Armenian: “Դեսֆինա”
- Asturian: “Desfina”
- Azerbaijani: “Desfina”
- Dutch: “Desfina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديسفينا”
- Finnish: “Desfína”
- French: “Desfína”
- Greek: “Desfína”
- Greek: “Δεσφίνα Φωκίδας”
- Greek: “Δεσφίνα Φωκίδος”
- Greek: “Δεσφίνα”
- Italian: “Desfina”
- Japanese: “デスフィナ”
- Latin: “Desphina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desfína”
- Persian: “دسفینا”
- Romanian: “Desfina”
- Russian: “Десфина”
- Spanish: “Desfina”
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