Afytos
Afytos is a village in Chalkidiki, northern Greece. It is part of the municipality Kassandra. It is situated on the northeastern coast of the Kassandra peninsula, 6 km northeast of Kassandreia, 31 km south of Polygyros and 73 km southeast of Thessaloniki.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,500 residents
- Description: village in Chalkidiki, Greece
- Also known as: “Afitos”, “Áfitos”, “Áthitos”, and “Athytos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Folklore Museum of Afytos and Church of Agios Dimitrios, Afytos.
Folklore Museum of Afytos
Museum
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The Folklore Museum of Afytos is located in the seaside village of Afytos on the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nea Phokea and Kallithea.
Nea Phokea
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Nea Phokea is a village on the Kassandra peninsula in Greece with isolated beaches and big pine-trees which almost reach the sea water. The inhabitants of Nea Phokea are 1,500, but during the summer months this number increases to 10,000.
Kallithea
Village
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Kallithea is a village and a community in the municipality of Kassandra, northern Greece. It is located in the regional unit of Chalkidiki. It has a population of 1,236 inhabitants according to the 2021 census.
Kassandreia
Town
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Kassandreia, known as Valta before 1955, is a town and a community in Chalkidiki, northern Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of Kassandra, in the center of the peninsula. Kassandreia is situated 6 km south of Afytos.
Afytos
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.0989° or 40° 5′ 56″ northLongitude
23.4364° or 23° 26′ 11″ eastPopulation
1,500Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)Open location code
8GG53CXP+HHOpenStreetMap ID
node 9587941947OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
736987Wikidata ID
Q3556047
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Afytos” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أفيتوس”
- Bulgarian: “Афитос”
- Cebuano: “Áfytos”
- Czech: “Afytos”
- Dutch: “Afytos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افيتوس”
- Finnish: “Áfytos”
- French: “Áfytos”
- French: “Áthytos”
- German: “Afytos”
- Greek: “Áfytos”
- Greek: “Άθυτος Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Άθυτος”
- Greek: “Άφυτος Χαλκιδικής”
- Greek: “Άφυτος”
- Irish: “Afytos”
- Macedonian: “Атито”
- Russian: “Афитос”
- Serbian: “Афитос”
- Slovak: “Afytos”
- Swedish: “Áfytos”
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