Vikos Gorge
The Vikos Gorge or Vikos Canyon is a gorge in the Pindus Mountains of northwestern Greece. It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphe with a length of about 32 km, depth ranging from 120 to 1350 m, and a width ranging from 2500 m to only a few meters at its narrowest part.Photo: Skamnelis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Katholikon of Moni Agias Paraskevis Monodendriou and Bridge of Misiou.
Katholikon of Moni Agias Paraskevis Monodendriou
Church
Photo: Erik1980, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Katholikon of Moni Agias Paraskevis Monodendriou is a church.
Bridge of Misiou
Photo: Pvou kz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bridge of Misiou is situated 3½ km south of Vikos Gorge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vradeto and Monodendri.
Vradeto
Hamlet
Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vradeto is a village in the Greek Zagori region. It lies at a height of 1,340 m on Mt Tymphe in the Pindus mountain range. It is the highest of the 44 villages of Zagori.
Monodendri
Village
Photo: Vincent C, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Monodendri is a village in the Ioannina regional unit in Greece. It is part of the municipal unit of Central Zagori in the Zagori region, and is located 41 kilometres north of the city of Ioannina.
Kapesovo
Village
Photo: Pvou kz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kapesovo is a village in the Zagori region, it is 43 km north of Ioannina. The village is near the Vikos canyon, the view of which is spectacular at certain spots.
Vikos Gorge
Latitude
39.89985° or 39° 53′ 60″ northLongitude
20.75631° or 20° 45′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8GF2VQX4+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 296929598OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q15061872
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Vikos Gorge” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վիկոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Vikos dərəsi”
- Bashkir: “Викос тарлауығы”
- Bashkir: “Викос”
- Bulgarian: “Викос”
- Cebuano: “Farángi Víkou”
- Croatian: “Vikos”
- Czech: “Vikos”
- Czech: “Φαράγγι του Βίκου”
- Danish: “Vikoskløften”
- Dutch: “Vikoskloof”
- Finnish: “Víkoksen rotko”
- French: “gorges de Vikos”
- French: “Gorges de Vikos”
- German: “Vikos-Schlucht”
- Greek: “Φαράγγι Βίκου”
- Greek: “Φαράγγι του Βίκου”
- Hebrew: “קניון ויקוס”
- Hungarian: “Vikosz-szurdok”
- Japanese: “ヴィコス峡谷”
- Lithuanian: “Viko tarpeklis”
- Macedonian: “Вик”
- Macedonian: “Викос”
- Russian: “Викос”
- Serbian: “Клисура Викос”
- Slovenian: “Soteska Vikos”
- Swedish: “Farángi Víkou”
- Turkish: “Vikos Kanyonu”
- Ukrainian: “Вікос”
- Western Armenian: “Վիքոս կիրճ”
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