Sitia
Sitia or Siteia is a port town and a municipality in Lasithi, Crete, Greece. The town has 11,166 inhabitants and the municipality has 20,438. It lies east of Agios Nikolaos and northeast of Ierapetra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wouterhagens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sitia Airport and Kazarma fortress.
Sitia Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sitia Airport is a small community airport in the region Mponta of Sitia Municipality, on the eastern part of Crete in Greece. The facility is serving the city of Sitia. The airport is located 1 km north/northwest of the city center.
Kazarma fortress
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kazarma is the Venetian-era fortress of the city of Sitia in Crete, Greece. This fortress was built in the 13th Century during Venetian rule on Crete. The Venetians abandoned the town in 1651 and destroyed parts of the fortress to prevent its use by the Turks.
Archaeological Museum of Sitia
Museum
The Archaeological Museum of Sitia is a museum in Sitia of Crete, in Greece. Its collection consists of Minoan-era finds from Sitia, Zakros, Petra and Palaikastro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piskokefalo.
Sitia
- Type: Town with 9,350 residents
- Description: town in Crete, Greece
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Siteia, Lasithi, Crete, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.2066° or 35° 12′ 24″ northLongitude
26.105° or 26° 6′ 18″ eastPopulation
9,350Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)IATA airport code
JSHUnited Nations Location Code
GR JSHOpen location code
8G786443+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1876796780OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
253759Wikidata ID
Q985549
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Sitia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sitia”
- Arabic: “سيتيا”
- Armenian: “Սիտիա”
- Asturian: “Sitia”
- Bulgarian: “Сития”
- Catalan: “Sitia”
- Cebuano: “Siteía”
- Chinese: “錫蒂亞”
- Chinese: “锡蒂亚”
- Czech: “Sitia”
- Danish: “Sitia”
- Dutch: “Sitia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيتيا”
- Estonian: “Sitía”
- Finnish: “Siteia”
- Finnish: “Siteía”
- Finnish: “Sitia”
- Finnish: “Sitía”
- French: “Sitia”
- French: “Sitía”
- German: “Sitia”
- German: “Sitía”
- Greek: “Σητεία”
- Hungarian: “Széteia”
- Indonesian: “Sitia”
- Italian: “Sitia municipio”
- Italian: “Sitia”
- Japanese: “シティア”
- Japanese: “ネアポリ (ラシティ県)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sitía”
- Persian: “سیتیا”
- Polish: “Sitia”
- Polish: “Sitía”
- Portuguese: “Siteía”
- Portuguese: “Sitia”
- Portuguese: “Sitía”
- Russian: “Сития”
- Serbian: “Ситија”
- Slovak: “Sitia”
- Slovak: “Sitía”
- Slovenian: “Sitia”
- Spanish: “Siteia”
- Spanish: “Siteía”
- Spanish: “Sitia”
- Spanish: “Sitía”
- Spanish: “Σητεία”
- Swedish: “Sitia”
- Turkish: “Estiye”
- Turkish: “İstiye”
- Turkish: “Sitya”
- Ukrainian: “Сітія”
- Urdu: “سیتیا”
- Vietnamese: “Sitia”
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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 “Sitia”. Photo: Wouterhagens, CC BY-SA 3.0.