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 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 23,900 residents
- Description: municipality of Crete, Greece
- Also known as: “Faistos Municipality”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Phaistos and Phaistos Disc.
Phaistos
Archaeological site
Photo: Jerzystrzelecki, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality in south central Crete.
Phaistos Disc
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Phaistos Disc, or Phaistos Disk, is a disc of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age, bearing a text in an unknown script and language.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moires and Galia.
Moires
Village
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moires is a town and a former municipality in the Heraklion regional unit, Crete, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Faistos, of which it is a municipal unit. Moires is situated 3½ km east of Faistos.
Galia
Village
Photo: PaBoMaSaMaHu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galia is a village on the island of Crete, Greece, located 58 kilometres from Heraklion, and is administratively part of the municipal unit of Moires in the municipality of Faistos. Galia is situated 4 km northeast of Faistos.
Faistos
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location: Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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”
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