Lefkada
Lefkada town is the capital of the island of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea. It is in the north of the island at its closest point to the coast of mainland Greece.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 8,670 residents
- Description: town on Lefkada island, Greece
- Also known as: “Lefkádos”, “Lefkas”, “Levkádha”, and “Levkás”
- Postal code: 31100
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Santa Maura and Archaeological Museum of Lefkada.
Castle of Santa Maura
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Castle of Santa Maura is a fortress on the northeastern tip of the Greek island of Lefkada. The castle began as a small fortification in c. 1300 to control access to the island, before it was expanded to become a walled town and the island's capital by the early 15th century.
Ieros Naos tis Panagias ton Xenon
Church
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ieros Naos tis Panagias ton Xenon is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fryni.
Lefkada
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Leukas, Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8353° or 38° 50′ 7″ northLongitude
20.7097° or 20° 42′ 35″ eastPopulation
8,670Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR LEVOpen location code
8GC2RPP5+4VOpenStreetMap ID
node 275295844OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lefkada” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليفكاذا”
- Armenian: “Լեֆկադա”
- Belarusian: “Лефкас”
- Catalan: “Lefkada”
- Catalan: “Lèucada”
- Cebuano: “Lefkáda”
- Chinese: “烈夫卡達”
- Chinese: “莱夫卡扎”
- Chinese: “莱夫卡斯”
- Chinese: “萊夫卡扎”
- Chinese: “萊夫卡斯”
- Croatian: “Lefkada (grad)”
- Croatian: “Lefkada”
- Czech: “Lefkada”
- Czech: “Lefkáda”
- Dutch: “Lefkada”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليفكاذا”
- Estonian: “Lefkáda”
- Finnish: “Lefkas”
- French: “Lefkada”
- French: “Leucade”
- German: “Lefkada”
- German: “Lefkas”
- German: “Stadt Lefkada”
- German: “Stadt Lefkas”
- Greek: “Lefkáda”
- Greek: “Lefkás”
- Greek: “Λευκάδα”
- Greek: “Λευκάς”
- Greek: “Πόλη της Λευκάδας”
- Irish: “Lefkada”
- Italian: “Leucade”
- Japanese: “レフカダ市”
- Korean: “레프카다”
- Moksha: “Лэфкада”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Levkáda by”
- Polish: “Lefkas”
- Polish: “Leukada”
- Portuguese: “Lêucade”
- Portuguese: “Levkas”
- Romanian: “Lefkada”
- Russian: “Лефкас”
- Serbian: “Lefkada”
- Serbian: “Лефкада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lefkada”
- Slovenian: “Lefkada”
- Spanish: “Lefkada”
- Spanish: “Leucada”
- Spanish: “Leucade”
- Spanish: “Léucade”
- Swedish: “Lefkáda”
- Turkish: “Ayamavra”
- Ukrainian: “Лефкада”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lefkada”
- Yue Chinese: “烈夫卡達”
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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 “Lefkada”. Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.