Plakias
Plakias is a village in Rethymno region of Crete. Plakias has grown from a fishing jetty and a few houses in the 1960s to a tourist resort today. Plakias has a 1300-metre-long sandy beach and there are several other beaches within walking distance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Wolfgang Staudt, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 325 residents
- Description: village in Rethymno regional unit, Greece
- Also known as: “Plakiá”
- Postal code: 74060
Places of Interest
Highlights include Plakias Beach and Plakias Korifi (Paligremnos).
Plakias Korifi (Paligremnos)
Archaeological site
Photo: Oltau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plakias Korifi (Paligremnos) is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mirthios.
Plakias
- Category: locality
- Location: Agios Vasileios, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.1915° or 35° 11′ 30″ northLongitude
24.3955° or 24° 23′ 44″ eastPopulation
325Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
8G7659RW+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 256817833OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
255110Wikidata ID
Q446334
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Plakias” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “placias”
- Cebuano: “Plakiás”
- Chinese: “普拉基亚斯”
- Czech: “Plakias”
- Dutch: “Plakias”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پلاكياس”
- Finnish: “Plakias”
- Finnish: “Plakiás”
- French: “Plakias”
- French: “Plakiás”
- German: “Plakias”
- German: “Plakiás”
- Greek: “Πλακιάς Ρεθύμνης”
- Greek: “Πλακιάς Ρεθύμνου”
- Greek: “Πλακιάς”
- Italian: “Plakias”
- Latin: “Placias”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plakiás”
- Portuguese: “Plakias”
- Portuguese: “Plakiás”
- Russian: “Плакиас”
- Russian: “Плакьяс”
- Swedish: “Plakiás”
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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 “Plakias”. Photo: Wolfgang Staudt, CC BY 2.0.