Mount Pelion
Mount Pelion forms a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea. The mountains are entirely forested, with beech, oak, maple and chestnut trees.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Chorefto and Platanias.
Chorefto
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Zagora, Pouri, Chorefto, Agii Saranta, Makrirrachi, Ovrios are in Northeast Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination.
Platanias
Platanias, Mikro, Kastri is in South Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination…Makrinitsa
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Makrinitsa, called the 'balcony' of Mt Pelion, Magnesia, Greece, for its amazing views. Located only 5 km birth-flight, or 10 km by winding mountain road, north-east of Volos it is one of the most easily accessed of Pelions 24 villages.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as South Pelion and Northwest Pelion.
South Pelion
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South Pelion is a municipality near the city of Volos, in the prefecture of Magnesia. Pelion is a tourist attraction throughout the year: the mountain includes trails and sidewalks for walking within small and large beaches with sand or pebbles.
Northwest Pelion
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Mount Pelion forms a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea.
Northeast Pelion
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Mount Pelion forms a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea. North East Pelion lies by the Aegean Sea The mountains are entirely forested, with beech, oak, maple and chestnut trees.
Mount Pelion
- Type: Mountain
- Description: mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece
- Also known as: “Oros Pilion” and “Pelion”
- Categories: mountain and tourist attraction
- Location: Zagora-Mouresi, Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Pelion” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيليون، دوديكانيسوس”
- Arabic: “بيليون”
- Armenian: “Պելիոն”
- Basque: “Pelion”
- Bulgarian: “Пелион”
- Catalan: “Pèlion”
- Cebuano: “Óros Pílion”
- Chinese: “皮利翁山”
- Dutch: “Pelion”
- Dutch: “Pilio”
- Dutch: “Pilion”
- Esperanto: “Pelion”
- Finnish: “Pelion”
- Finnish: “Pílio”
- French: “mont Pélion”
- French: “Mont Pélion”
- French: “Pélion”
- French: “Pilion”
- German: “Pelion”
- German: “Pilio”
- German: “Pilion”
- Greek: “Πήλιο”
- Greek: “Πήλιον”
- Hebrew: “פיליון”
- Hungarian: “Pélion-hegység”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Pelion”
- Indonesian: “Pelion”
- Italian: “Monte Peleo”
- Italian: “Monte Pelio”
- Italian: “Pelio”
- Italian: “Pelion”
- Japanese: “ピリオン山”
- Japanese: “ピリオ山”
- Japanese: “ピリオ山脈”
- Japanese: “ペーリオン山”
- Korean: “펠리온산”
- Ladin: “Pelion”
- Latin: “Pelion”
- Macedonian: “Пелион”
- Macedonian: “Пилио”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pelion”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pilion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pelion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pelium”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pilio”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pílio”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pilion”
- Norwegian: “Pilion”
- Persian: “کوه پلیون”
- Polish: “Pelion”
- Romanian: “Pelion”
- Russian: “Пелион”
- Russian: “Пилион”
- Serbian: “Пилион (Грчка)”
- Serbian: “Пилион”
- Slovenian: “Pilion”
- Spanish: “Pelion”
- Spanish: “Pelión”
- Spanish: “Pilio”
- Swedish: “Óros Pílion”
- Turkish: “Pelion Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Пеліон”
- Venetian: “Monte Pelio”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Mount Pelion”. Photo: Ioannis Fakis, CC BY-SA 4.0.