Faistos
Faistos is a municipality in Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Moires. It is named after the ancient city Phaistos, located in the municipality. The municipality has an area of 410.810 km.- Locality with about 24,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 110 metres (350 feet)
- …is also known as “Faistos Municipality”
- Description: municipality of Crete, Greece
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phaistos Disc and Palace of Phaistos.
Museum of Cretan Ethnology
Museum
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moires and Galia.
Moires
Village
Moires is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Moires is situated 3½ km east of Faistos.
Faistos
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location
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Latitude
35.0576° or 35° 3′ 27″ north
Longitude
24.835° or 24° 50′ 6″ east
Open location code
8G763R5P+22
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Faistos” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Festós”
- Cebuano: “Dimos Faistos”
- Chinese: “费斯托斯”
- Dutch: “Faistos”
- Finnish: “Faistós”
- French: “dème de Phaïstos”
- French: “Phaïstos (dème)”
- French: “Phaistos”
- German: “Festos”
- Greek: “Δήμος Φαιστού”
- Greek: “Φαιστού”
- Ido: “Municipo Festos”
- Italian: “Faistos”
- Japanese: “フェストス”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Festós”
- Polish: “Festos”
- Portuguese: “Faesto (município)”
- Portuguese: “Faisto (município)”
- Portuguese: “Festo (município)”
- Portuguese: “Festo”
- Portuguese: “Festos (município)”
- Russian: “Фестос”
- Slovenian: “Občina Fajstos”
- Spanish: “Festo (municipio)”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Festo”
- Swedish: “Dimos Faistos”
- Turkish: “Festos”
- Vietnamese: “Faistos”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Faistos”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Phaistos and Agia Triada.
Heraklion: Highlights
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