Poseidonia
Kato Poseidonia is a settlement in Southeastern Attica under the administration of the Municipality of Lavreotiki. The settlement is 36.7 miles from Athens, 2.5 miles from Lavrio, and 3 miles from Sounio.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 397 residents
- Description: village in Attica, Greece
- Also known as: “Kato Poseidonia” and “Kato Posidonia”
- Postal code: 19500
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mineralogical Museum of Lavrio and Archaeological Museum of Lavrio.
Mineralogical Museum of Lavrio
Museum
Photo: Mavl80, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mineralogical Museum of Lavrion is a museum in Lavrion, Attica, Greece.) A brief history of the museum The Mineralogical Museum of Lavrion was inaugurated in 1986 through the efforts of the “Society for Lavrion region Studies”, a non-profit cultural… Mineralogical Museum of Lavrio is situated 4 km north of Poseidonia.
Archaeological Museum of Lavrio
Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Archaeological Museum of Lavrio is situated 4 km north of Poseidonia.
Church of Agia Paraskevi Lavriou
Church
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of Agia Paraskevi Lavriou is situated 3½ km north of Poseidonia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lavrio and Sounio.
Lavrio
Photo: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lavrio is a town in the southeastern part of Attica, Greece, 54 km southeast of central Athens and part of Athens metropolitan area.
Sounio
Photo: Adam Carr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sounio is a national park in Attica, the historic region of Athens city-state. It is a popular day trip from Athens because of its splendid Temple of Poseidon.
Legrena
Village
Legrena is a coastal village in East Attica in southern Greece on the coast of the Attica peninsula. It is part of the municipality Lavreotiki. It lies along Greek National Road 91, to the west of Sounion. Legrena is situated 6 km west of Poseidonia.
Poseidonia
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.68184° or 37° 40′ 55″ northLongitude
24.05327° or 24° 3′ 12″ eastPopulation
397Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
8G96M3J3+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 358780471OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
9036755Wikidata ID
Q16322740
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Poseidonia” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Káto Poseidonía”
- French: “Kato Posidonia”
- French: “Káto Possidonía”
- German: “Kato Posidonia”
- Greek: “Κάτω Ποσειδωνία Αττικής”
- Greek: “Κάτω Ποσειδωνία”
- Greek: “Ποσειδωνία”
- Russian: “Като Посейдония”
- Swedish: “Káto Poseidonía”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Poseidonia”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.