Hagia Photia
Hagia Photia is an archaeological site of a fortified ancient Minoan building on eastern Crete. Sitia lies five kilometers to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Petro Stelte, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Locality with 223 residents
- Description: village in Siteia, Lasithi, Greece
- Also known as: “Ayia Fotia” and “Ayía Fotiá”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trypitos and Petras.
Petras
Archaeological site
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petras is an archaeological site, which is situated 3½ km west of Hagia Photia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roussa Ekklisia and Sitia.
Sitia
Photo: Wouterhagens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sitia or Siteia is a port town and a municipality in Lasithi, Crete, Greece. The town has 11,166 inhabitants and the municipality has 20,438. It lies east of Agios Nikolaos and northeast of Ierapetra.
Piskokefalo
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Piskokefalo is a village, which is situated 5 km west of Hagia Photia.
Hagia Photia
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Siteia, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Hagia Photia” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Agia Fotiá (Creta)”
- Catalan: “Agia Fotiá”
- Dutch: “Hagia Photia”
- Finnish: “Agía Fotiá”
- German: “Agia Photia”
- German: “Agía Photia”
- German: “Ayia Photia”
- Greek: “Αγία Φωτιά Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Αγία Φωτιά Σητείας Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Αγία Φωτιά Σητείας”
- Greek: “Αγία Φωτιά”
- Italian: “Hagia Photia”
- Portuguese: “Agia Fócia”
- Spanish: “Agia Fotiá”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Koutsoulopetres and Zacharínos.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Órmos Siteías and Ákra Trypití.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hagia Photia”. Photo: Petro Stelte, CC BY-SA 4.0.