Κολοκυνθού
Κολοκυνθού is a quarter in Athens, Attica. Κολοκυνθού is situated nearby to the neighborhood Skouze Hill, as well as near the quarter Sepolia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Platonic Academy and Sepolia.
Platonic Academy
Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.
Sepolia
Metro station
Photo: Argybz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sepolia is a station on Athens Metro Line 2. It was named after the neighbourhood Sepolia, where it is located. It opened on 28 January 2000 and served as the original northern terminus of Line 2 until Agios Antonios opened in August 2004.
Athens railway station
Railway station
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Athens railway station is the main railway station of Athens and the second-largest station in Greece. Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skouze Hill and Sepolia.
Skouze Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skouze Hill is a hill located in Athens, Greece. It is also the name of a small neighbourhood surrounding the hill. In Antiquity, it was dedicated to and named after "Demeter Euchloös".
Sepolia
Quarter
Photo: Pavlos1988, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sepolia is a neighborhood in Athens, Greece. The Sepolia metro station is situated in the neighborhood. Sepolia owes to its name in the Greek phrase esopolis, which means "inside the city".
Kolonos
Quarter
Colonus or Kolonos was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river Cephissus.
Κολοκυνθού
- Type: Quarter
- Also known as: “Kolokynthou”
- Category: locality
- Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
38.00208° or 38° 0′ 8″ northLongitude
23.71122° or 23° 42′ 40″ eastOpen location code
8GC52P26+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 6339637249OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
“Κολοκυνθού” goes by many names.
- Greek: “Κολοκυνθού”
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