Daphní

Daphni or Dafni is an eleventh-century Byzantine monastery eleven kilometers northwest of central in the suburb of Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue.
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  • Greek Orthodox church
  • …lies at an elevation of 112 metres (367 feet)
  • Description: 11th-century Byzantine monastery in Greece
  • Also known as
    “Dafní”
    “Dafni monastery”
    “Daphni Monastery”
    “Mone Dafniou”
    “Mone Daphniou”
    “Moni Dafniou”
    “Moni Daphniou”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dafni Pan cave (Attica) and Sacred Way.
The cave of God Pan in Daphni is a cave in , , , that was sacred to the god Pan. is situated 460 metres southwest of Daphní.
The , in ancient , was the road from to Eleusis. is situated 2½ km west of Daphní.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skaramagkas and Korydallos.
Skaramagas is a port in the western part of the agglomeration, . is situated 3 km west of Daphní.
is both a town and a municipality in the Piraeus regional unit of . is situated 3½ km south of Daphní.
or Egaleo is a town and a suburban… is situated 4½ km southeast of Daphní.

Daphní

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Latitude
38.01298° or 38° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
23.63593° or 23° 38′ 9″ east
Open location code
8GC52J7P+59
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Daphní” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دير دافني”
  • Armenian: “Դաֆնի (վանք)”
  • Armenian: “Դաֆնի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dafni monastırı”
  • Belarusian: “Манастыр Дафні”
  • Bulgarian: “Дафни (манастир)”
  • Bulgarian: “Дафни”
  • Catalan: “Monestir de Dafni”
  • Catalan: “Monestir de Dafní”
  • Chinese: “德菲尼修道院”
  • Chinese: “达夫尼修道院”
  • Chinese: “達夫尼修道院”
  • Croatian: “Dafni”
  • Croatian: “Daphni manastir”
  • Croatian: “Daphni”
  • Croatian: “Manastir Dafni”
  • Czech: “Dafnion”
  • Czech: “Klášter Dafnion”
  • Dutch: “Klooster van Dafni”
  • Dutch: “Klooster van Daphni”
  • Esperanto: “Monaĥejo Dafni”
  • Finnish: “Dafnen luostari”
  • Finnish: “Dafnin luostari”
  • Finnish: “Dafnín luostari”
  • French: “Monastere de Daphni”
  • French: “monastère de Daphni”
  • French: “Monastère de Daphni”
  • French: “Monastère de Daphní”
  • Georgian: “დაფნის მონასტერი”
  • German: “Daphni”
  • German: “Kloster Daphni”
  • Greek: “Δαφνί”
  • Greek: “Μονή Δαφνίου”
  • Hebrew: “מנזר דפני”
  • Hindi: “डेफनी मठ”
  • Hungarian: “Daphni-kolostor”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Dafni”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Daphni”
  • Japanese: “アテネのダフニ修道院”
  • Japanese: “ダフニ修道院”
  • Korean: “다프니 수도원”
  • Latin: “Daphnium”
  • Lithuanian: “Dafnio vienuolynas”
  • Macedonian: “Манастир Дафни”
  • Malay: “Daphni Monastery”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാഫ്നി മഠം”
  • Mazanderani: “دلفی”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dafniklosteret”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Daphniklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Dafniklosteret”
  • Persian: “صومعه دافنی”
  • Persian: “صومعه دلفی”
  • Persian: “معبد دلفی”
  • Persian: “نیایشگاه دلفی”
  • Polish: “Klasztor Dafni”
  • Portuguese: “Monastério Daphni”
  • Portuguese: “Mosteiro de Dafne”
  • Romanian: “Dafni”
  • Romanian: “Daphni”
  • Romanian: “Mănăstirea Daphni”
  • Russian: “Дафни”
  • Russian: “Дафнион”
  • Serbian: “Манастир Дафни”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Manastir Dafni”
  • Slovak: “Kláštor Dafni”
  • Slovak: “Monastier Dafni”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Dafni”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Dafni”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Daphni”
  • Swedish: “Daphni”
  • Tatar: “Дафни кәшишханәсе”
  • Turkish: “Dafni Manastırı”
  • Ukrainian: “Монастир Дафні”
  • Urdu: “خانقاہ ڈیفنی”
  • Western Frisian: “Kleaster fan Dafni”

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