South Pelion
South Pelion is a municipality near the city of Volos, in the prefecture of Magnesia. Pelion is a tourist attraction throughout the year: the mountain includes trails and sidewalks for walking within small and large beaches with sand or pebbles.Photo: Handrian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Platanias and Argalasti.
Platanias
Platanias, Mikro, Kastri is in South Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination…Argalasti
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Argalasti, Kalamos, Paou are in South Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination…
Trikeri
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Trikeri, Agia Kiriaki, Kotes is in South Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Paleo Trikeri and Xinovrysi.
Paleo Trikeri
Paleo Trikeri is a small island in the Pagasitic Gulf off the end of the Pelion peninsula in Thessaly. It is part of the South Pelion municipality.Xinovrysi
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Xinovrysi is in Mount Pelion. Current article covers also Potistika, Melani and Paltsi. Xinovrysi is a village of Magnesia built on the slopes of Pelion mountain, approximately 50 km. from Volos and at an altitude of about 250 meters.
Milina
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Chorto is a seaside village is the municipal unit of Argalasti in Magnesia, Greece. Chorto is located by the Pagasetic Gulf, 4 km south of Argalasti. The ancient city of Spalathra was situated near Chorto, most likely on the Chortokastron hill.
Promiri
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Promiri, Lyri, Katigiorgi, Mortia are villages in Mount Pelion. Since these villages are close to each other, they are considered as a single travel destination…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lefokastro and Afissos.
Lefokastro
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Lefokastro is in Mount Pelion, located on the coast of the Pagasitic Gulf. Lefokastro is approximately 34km from the city of Volos at the foot of Mount Pelion.
Afetes
Village
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Afetes is a village and a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit.
South Pelion
- Type: Locality with 10,700 residents
- Description: municipality in Thessaly Region, Greece
- Also known as: “Southern Pelion Municipality”
- Category: municipality of Greece
- Location: Mount Pelion, Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“South Pelion” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Dimos South Pelion”
- Chinese: “南皮利翁”
- Dutch: “Notio Pilio”
- Finnish: “Notió Pílio”
- Finnish: “Nótio Pílio”
- French: “dème du Pélion-du-Sud”
- French: “Pélion-du-Sud”
- German: “Notio Pilio”
- Greek: “Δήμος Νοτίου Πηλίου”
- Greek: “Νοτίου Πηλίου”
- Ido: “Municipo Notio Pilio”
- Italian: “Notio Pilio”
- Japanese: “南ピリオ”
- Japanese: “南ペリオ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sør-Pílio”
- Polish: “Notio Pilio”
- Russian: “Нотио-Пилио”
- Spanish: “Pelion del Sur”
- Spanish: “Pelión del Sur”
- Spanish: “South Pelion”
- Swedish: “Dimos South Pelion”
- Turkish: “Güney Pilio”
- Vietnamese: “Notios Pilios”
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