Lavrio
Lavrio is a town in the southeastern part of Attica, Greece, 54 km southeast of central Athens and part of Athens metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,560 residents
- Description: town in Attica, Greece
- Also known as: “Ergasteria”, “Ergastíria”, “Laurio”, “Laurium”, “Lávrio”, “Lavrion”, and “Lavrium”
- 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…
Theatre of Thorikos
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The Theatre of Thorikos, situated north of Lavrio, was an ancient Greek theater in the demos of Thorikos in Attica, Greece. It holds the distinction of being the world's oldest known theater, dating back to its construction around 525–480 BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agios Konstantinos and Poseidonia.
Agios Konstantinos
Village
Agios Konstantinos is a village and a former community in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been part of the municipality Lavreotiki, which is a municipal unit. It was named after Saint Constantine. Agios Konstantinos is situated 3½ km west of Lavrio.
Poseidonia
Hamlet
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. Poseidonia is situated 3½ km south of Lavrio.
Lavrio
- Category: locality
- Location: Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.7143° or 37° 42′ 51″ northLongitude
24.0548° or 24° 3′ 17″ eastPopulation
8,560Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR LAVOpen location code
8G96P373+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 26737917OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Lavrio” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لافريو”
- Armenian: “Լավրիոն”
- Asturian: “Lavrio”
- Bulgarian: “Лаврио”
- Catalan: “Lavrio”
- Cebuano: “Lávrio”
- Chinese: “拉夫里奥”
- Chinese: “拉夫里翁”
- Croatian: “Lavrio”
- Dutch: “Laurion”
- Dutch: “Laurium”
- Dutch: “Lavrio”
- Dutch: “Lávrion”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف لافريون الاثرى”
- Finnish: “Lávrio”
- French: “Laurion”
- French: “Laurium”
- French: “Lávrio”
- German: “Laurion”
- German: “Laurium”
- German: “Lavrio”
- Greek: “Lávrion”
- Greek: “Λαύριο”
- Greek: “Λαύριον”
- Hebrew: “לאווריו”
- Indonesian: “Lavrio”
- Italian: “Laurio”
- Italian: “Laurium”
- Italian: “Lavrio”
- Japanese: “ラブリオ”
- Korean: “라브리오”
- Latin: “Laurium”
- Lithuanian: “Lavrijas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lavrion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lávrio”
- Norwegian: “Lavrion”
- Persian: “لوریوم”
- Polish: “Lawrio”
- Romanian: “Laurion”
- Romanian: “Laurium”
- Russian: “Лаврион”
- Serbian: “Лаврио”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Laurion”
- Sicilian: “Laurion”
- Sicilian: “Lavrio”
- Spanish: “Lavrio”
- Swedish: “Laurion”
- Tamil: “லாரியம்”
- Tamil: “லாவ்ரியோ”
- Tatar: “Лаврио борынгы каласы”
- Turkish: “Laurium”
- Turkish: “Lavrion”
- Ukrainian: “Лавріон”
- Urdu: “لوریوم”
- Vietnamese: “Lavrio”
- Yiddish: “לאווריו”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Lavrio”. Photo: FocalPoint, CC BY-SA 4.0.