Parga
Parga is a small town on the Ionian coast of mainland Greece, just between the cities of Igoumenitsa and Preveza, in the region of Epirus.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 2,170 residents
- Description: town in Epirus, Greece
- Also known as: “Barga”
- Postal code: 48060
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Parga.
Castle of Parga
Castle
Photo: ΣΟΛΑΚΙΔΗΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΙΟΣ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parga Castle is a medieval hilltop citadel complex in the town of Parga, Epirus, Greece. Located on the top of a hill overlooking the town, it has been an important landmark since the 15th century due in part to the strong fortifications used to protect the town from invasions from land and sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anthousa.
Anthousa
Village
Photo: Lakim, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Anthousa, known before 1927 as Rapeza is a village in the municipality of Parga, Preveza regional unit of Epirus, in western Greece. In 2021 its population was 673 for the community, which also includes the village Trikorfo.
Parga
- Category: locality
- Location: Preveza, Epirus, Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.2853° or 39° 17′ 7″ northLongitude
20.3998° or 20° 23′ 59″ eastPopulation
2,170Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)United Nations Location Code
GR PAROpen location code
8GF279PX+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 283363565OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Parga” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Parga”
- Albanian: “Pargë”
- Amharic: “ፓርጋ”
- Arabic: “بارغا”
- Armenian: “Պարգա”
- Asturian: “Parga”
- Bulgarian: “Парга”
- Cebuano: “Párga”
- Chinese: “帕爾加”
- Czech: “Parga”
- Dutch: “Parga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارجا”
- Esperanto: “Parga”
- Finnish: “Parga”
- Finnish: “Párga”
- French: “Parga”
- French: “Párga”
- Georgian: “პარგა”
- German: “Parga”
- Greek: “Πάργα”
- Hebrew: “פארגה”
- Hungarian: “Párga”
- Italian: “Parga”
- Japanese: “パルガ”
- Lithuanian: “Parga”
- Macedonian: “Парга”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Párga”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “بارغه”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “پارغه”
- Persian: “پرگا (اپیروس)”
- Persian: “پرگا”
- Polish: “Parga”
- Romanian: “Parga”
- Russian: “Парга”
- Serbian: “Parga”
- Serbian: “Парга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Parga”
- Slovenian: “Parga”
- Spanish: “Parga”
- Swedish: “Parga”
- Turkish: “Parga”
- Ukrainian: “Парга”
- Urdu: “پارگا”
- Vietnamese: “Parga”
- Welsh: “Parga”
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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 “Parga”. Photo: Samulili, CC BY 2.5.