Aigaleo
Aigaleo is a locality in Athens Prefecture, Attica. Aigaleo is situated nearby to the neighborhood Ierápoli, as well as near the locality Ntamarákia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Platonic Academy and Peristeri Stadium.
Platonic Academy
Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.
Peristeri Stadium
Stadium
Peristeri Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Peristeri, a city and a suburb within the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atromitos.
Mosque of Athens
Mosque
Photo: NikosLikomitros, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Votanikos Mosque, more commonly known as the Mosque of Athens or the Athens Mosque, is a mosque in the Votanikos neighbourhood of Athens, Greece. It is the first official mosque in the Greek capital since the Greek War of Independence.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Piraeus.
Athens
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Athens is the capital city of Greece with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.
Piraeus
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Piraeus is the ancient port of Athens, and still functions as the chief exit point from the city by sea, for destinations among the Aegean Islands and elsewhere in the east Mediterranean.
Peristeri
Suburb
Peristeri is a city and a suburban municipality in the western part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. With 133,630 inhabitants, it ranks as the seventh-largest city and municipality in Greece by population.
Aigaleo
- Type: Locality with 69,900 residents
- Also known as: “Dimos Aigaleo”
- Location: Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9902° or 37° 59′ 25″ northLongitude
23.6787° or 23° 40′ 43″ eastPopulation
69,900Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)Open location code
8G95XMRH+3FGeoNames ID
8133973
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In Other Languages
“Aigaleo” goes by many names.
- Greek: “Αιγάλεω”
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