Palekastro
Palaikastro or Palekastro, with the Godart and Olivier abbreviation PK, is a thriving town, geographic heir to a long line of settlements extending back into prehistoric times, at the east end of the Mediterranean island Crete.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 953 residents
- Description: village in Lasithi, Greece
- Also known as: “Palaikastro”, “Palaíkastron”, “Palaiókastro”, and “Palaiókastron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rousolakos and Kouremenos.
Rousolakos
Archaeological site
Photo: EinarB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roussolakkos is the site of a Minoan city, located near Palekastro, Crete. The Bronze Age town was occupied from Early Minoan IIA to Late Minoan IIIB, and its remains are relatively well preserved.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agathia and Lagada.
Lagada
Hamlet
Photo: Roton Piotr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lagada is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km south of Palekastro.
Palekastro
Latitude
35.1976° or 35° 11′ 51″ northLongitude
26.2542° or 26° 15′ 15″ eastPopulation
953Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open location code
8G7857X3+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 1408935363OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
256155Wikidata ID
Q941860
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Palekastro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باليكاسترو”
- Armenian: “Պալեկաստրոն”
- Bulgarian: “Палекастро”
- Catalan: “Palékastro”
- Cebuano: “Palekastro”
- Chinese: “帕萊卡斯楚”
- Dutch: “Palekastro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پاليكاسترو”
- Finnish: “Palaíkastro”
- French: “Palékastro”
- German: “Palaekastro”
- German: “Palekastro”
- Greek: “Παλαίκαστρο Λασιθίου”
- Greek: “Παλαίκαστρο”
- Greek: “Παλαίκαστρον”
- Greek: “Παλαιόκαστρον”
- Italian: “Palekastro”
- Italian: “Paleocastro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palékastro”
- Portuguese: “Palaicastro”
- Portuguese: “Palaikastro”
- Portuguese: “Palaiocastro”
- Portuguese: “Palaiokastro”
- Portuguese: “Palecastro”
- Portuguese: “Palekastro”
- Russian: “Палекастро”
- Russian: “Палекастрон”
- Spanish: “Palaikastro”
- Swedish: “Palekastro”
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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 Wikipedia page “Palekastro”. Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.