Sounio
Sounio is a national park in Attica, the historic region of Athens city-state. It is a popular day trip from Athens because of its splendid Temple of Poseidon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 127 residents
- Description: cape and archaeological site in Lavreotiki municipality, Attica, Greece
- Also known as: “Cape Sounion”, “Kato Sounion”, “Sounion”, “Soúnion”, “Sounion,archaeological site”, and “Sunium”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Poseidon.
Temple of Poseidon
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries on the cape from as early as the 11th century BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Legrena and Poseidonia.
Legrena
Village
Legrena is a coastal village in East Attica in southern Greece on the coast of the Attica peninsula. It is part of the municipality Lavreotiki. It lies along Greek National Road 91, to the west of Sounion.
Poseidonia
Hamlet
Kato Poseidonia is a settlement in Southeastern Attica under the administration of the Municipality of Lavreotiki. The settlement is 36.7 miles from Athens, 2.5 miles from Lavrio, and 3 miles from Sounio. Poseidonia is situated 4½ km northeast of Sounio.
Sounio
- Categories: cape, headland, and archaeological site
- Location: Lavreotiki, East Attica, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.6501° or 37° 39′ 0″ northLongitude
24.0263° or 24° 1′ 35″ eastPopulation
127Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)Open location code
8G96M22G+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 4594305300OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeOpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Sounio” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Άκρον Σούνιον”
- Basque: “Sounion”
- Belarusian: “Мыс Суніян”
- Belarusian: “Суніян”
- Bulgarian: “Сунион”
- Catalan: “cap Súnion”
- Catalan: “Cap Súnion”
- Catalan: “Sounion”
- Catalan: “Sunion”
- Catalan: “Súnion”
- Cebuano: “Ákra Soúnio”
- Cebuano: “Káto Soúnion”
- Chinese: “舒尼恩”
- Chinese: “舒尼恩岬”
- Chinese: “舒尼恩岬的波塞冬神廟”
- Chinese: “苏尼恩岬”
- Chinese: “蘇尼恩岬”
- Chinese: “蘇尼翁”
- Chinese: “蘇尼翁角”
- Czech: “Sunion”
- Dutch: “Kaap Soenion”
- Dutch: “Kaap Sounion”
- Dutch: “Sounion”
- Finnish: “Soúnio”
- French: “cap Sounion”
- French: “Cap Sounion”
- French: “Sounion”
- German: “Kap Sounion”
- German: “Kap Sunion”
- German: “Sounio”
- German: “Sounion”
- German: “Sunion”
- Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Σούνιο”
- Greek: “Κάτω Σούνιο”
- Greek: “Κάτω Σούνιον”
- Greek: “Σούνιο, αρχαιολογικός χώρος”
- Greek: “Σούνιο”
- Greek: “Σούνιον”
- Hebrew: “כף סוניו”
- Hebrew: “כף סוניון”
- Hungarian: “Sounion”
- Italian: “Capo Sounion”
- Italian: “Capo Sunio”
- Japanese: “スーニョ岬”
- Japanese: “スニオン”
- Japanese: “スニオン岬”
- Latin: “Sunium”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sunion”
- Norwegian: “Sunion”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Sounio”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Sunionu”
- Polish: “Sounio”
- Polish: “Sounion”
- Polish: “Sunio”
- Polish: “Sunion”
- Polish: “Sunium”
- Portuguese: “Cabo súnion”
- Portuguese: “Sounion”
- Portuguese: “Sunião”
- Portuguese: “Súnion”
- Romanian: “Sounio”
- Romanian: “Sounion”
- Russian: “Мыс Сунион”
- Russian: “Суний”
- Russian: “Сунион”
- Serbian: “Сунион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sounion”
- Slovenian: “Sounion”
- Spanish: “Cabo Sunion”
- Spanish: “Cabo Sunión”
- Spanish: “Sunio”
- Spanish: “Sunion”
- Spanish: “Sunión”
- Spanish: “Sunium”
- Swedish: “Ákra Soúnio”
- Swedish: “Kap Sunion”
- Swedish: “Sunion”
- Swedish: “Sunium”
- Turkish: “Sunion”
- Turkish: “Sütun Burnu”
- Ukrainian: “Суній”
- Ukrainian: “Суніо”
- Ukrainian: “Суніон”
- Vietnamese: “Sounion”
- Welsh: “Penrhyn Sounion”
- Welsh: “Sounion”
- Western Armenian: “Սունիօ”
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