South Aegean Islands
Cyclades
Santorini

Fira

Fira is the main town and cultural centre of Thira, the largest island in the archipelago. It boasts a variety of museums, art galleries, cathedrals and picturesque churches to explore, as well as the island's widest selection of shopping and dining.
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  • Type: Town with 2,380 residents
  • Description: village in Santorini, Greece
  • Also known as: “Thera”, “Thira”, and “Thira (Fira)”
  • Postal code: 84700

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Prehistoric Thera and Catholic Cathedral Church of Saint John The Baptist.

Museum
Photo: Oltau, CC BY 3.0.
The is located in Fira, on the island of in . It was built on the site of the old Ypapanti Church which was destroyed in the 1956 Amorgos earthquake.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Fira, on the island of , in the region of . The cathedral church serves as the seat of the Bishop of Santorini.

Volcano
Photo: Rolfsteinar, CC BY 2.5.
caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern , 120 kilometers north of in . Visible above water is the circular island group, consisting of , the main island, and at the periphery, and the at the center. is situated 3½ km west of Fira.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Imerovigli and Vourvoulos.

is a small village famous for its beautiful sunset that give it the nickname balcony of the Aegean. It is on Thira, the largest island in the archipelago, just north of capital Fira.

is a village on the island of in . It is located 3,7 kilometers northeast of the capital Fira, built on a slope facing the east shore of the island.

Photo: Wolfgang Staudt, CC BY 2.0.
is a small rock in . A tangle of paths lead from the village up to the houses built into the cliffs. Much as the villagers did in Caldera, the residents built their homes in the rocky walls of the ravine.

Fira

Latitude
36.4149° or 36° 24′ 54″ north
Longitude
25.4325° or 25° 25′ 57″ east
Population
2,380
Elevation
244 metres (801 feet)
IATA airport code
JTR
United Nations Location Code
GR JTR
Open location code
8G87CC7J+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1842740533
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
252920
Wiki­data ID
Q617169
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيرا”
  • Armenian: “Թիրա”
  • Asturian: “Fira”
  • Bulgarian: “Фира”
  • Catalan: “Fira”
  • Cebuano: “Firá”
  • Chinese: “费拉”
  • Czech: “Fira”
  • Danish: “Fira”
  • Dutch: “Fira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيرا”
  • Finnish: “Fira”
  • Finnish: “Firá”
  • French: “Fira”
  • French: “Firá”
  • German: “Fira”
  • German: “Firá”
  • German: “Thíra”
  • Greek: “Θηρα”
  • Greek: “Θήρα”
  • Greek: “Φηρά Θήρας”
  • Greek: “ΦΗΡΑ”
  • Greek: “Φηρά”
  • Hausa: “Fira”
  • Hebrew: “פירה”
  • Hungarian: “Fíra”
  • Indonesian: “Fira”
  • Italian: “Fira”
  • Japanese: “フィラ (ギリシャ)”
  • Korean: “피라”
  • Latin: “Thera”
  • Macedonian: “Фира”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Firá”
  • Ossetian: “Тирæ”
  • Ossetian: “Фирæ”
  • Polish: “Fira”
  • Russian: “Тира”
  • Russian: “Фира”
  • Serbian: “Фира”
  • Slovak: “Fira”
  • Slovenian: “Fira”
  • Spanish: “Fira”
  • Spanish: “Firá”
  • Spanish: “Thera”
  • Spanish: “Thíra”
  • Swedish: “Firá”
  • Thai: “ฟีรา”
  • Ukrainian: “Тіра”
  • Ukrainian: “Фіра”

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