Karitsa
Karitsa is a lowland Aromanian town of the former Municipality of Dio, which is part of the municipality of Dio-Olympos, in the Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,220 residents
- Description: town in Pieria, Greece
- Also known as: “Karica” and “Karitsa, Pieria”
- Postal code: 601 50
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Park of Dion and Great Baths.
Archaeological Park of Dion
Photo: Juergen-Olymp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Archaeological Park of Dion is the most important archaeological site at Mount Olympus in Greece, located in Dion. In the area comprised by the Archaeological Park of Dion, sanctuaries were found from the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
Hellenistic theatre
Ruins
Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The largest building of the Archaeological Park of Dion in northern Greece is the Hellenistic-era theatre. It is located in the south of the village of Dion, Pieria and is often used during the summer for performances of the Olympus Festival.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dion and Platanakia.
Dion
Village
Dion is a village and municipal unit in the municipality of Dion-Olympos in the Pieria regional unit, Greece. It is located at the foot of Mount Olympus at a distance of 17 km from the capital city of Katerini.
Platanakia
Village
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Platanakia is a settlement of the former municipality of Dion, which is part of the municipality of Dio-Olympos, in the Pieria regional unit, Central Macedonia, Greece. Platanakia is situated 3 km south of Karitsa.
Agios Spyridonas
Village
Photo: Lemur12, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agios Spyridonas is a village and a community of the Dio-Olympos municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Dion, of which it was a municipal district. Agios Spyridonas is situated 4 km northwest of Karitsa.
Karitsa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dio-Olympos, Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.18822° or 40° 11′ 18″ northLongitude
22.48268° or 22° 28′ 58″ eastPopulation
2,220Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
8GG45FQM+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 296754508OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
735960Wikidata ID
Q3563105
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Karitsa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاريتسا، بيريا”
- Arabic: “كاريتسا”
- Asturian: “Karitsa”
- Bulgarian: “Карица”
- Cebuano: “Karítsa”
- Dutch: “Karitsa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاريتسا”
- Finnish: “Karítsa”
- French: “Karítsa”
- Greek: “Καρίτσα Πιερίας”
- Greek: “Καρίτσα”
- Macedonian: “Карица”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karítsa”
- Serbian: “Карица”
- Spanish: “Karitsa”
- Swedish: “Karítsa”
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