Greece
Attica
Piraeus Prefecture

Spetses

The island and town of Spetses is extremely popular with Athenians, who swarm the place during Easter and summer weekends. Due to the nature of available accommodation, package tourism has not caught on much.
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  • Type: Town with 3,850 residents
  • Description: Greek island of the Argolic Gulf
  • Also known as: “Spezzia”
  • Postal code: 18050

Places of Interest

Highlights include Laskarina Bouboulina museum and Museum of Spetses.

Museum
Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Qweasdqwe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Spetses Museum is a in Spetses, . Its exhibits cover 4000 years of the island's cultural history. It is housed in the mansion of Chatzigiannis-Mexis, which was built in 1798. The first floor is open to the public.

Hotel
Photo: Qweasdqwe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a luxury hotel on the island of Spetses, . Each of the 55 rooms is decorated with a mix of antique and modern furniture with references to the colonial era.

Spetses

Latitude
37.2644° or 37° 15′ 52″ north
Longitude
23.1577° or 23° 9′ 28″ east
Population
3,850
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GR SPE
Open location code
8G957575+Q3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 352986735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
253356
Wiki­data ID
Q368275
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Spetses” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Spetses”
  • Albanian: “Peca”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Πιτυούσσα”
  • Arabic: “سبيتسيس”
  • Armenian: “Սպեցե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Spetses”
  • Catalan: “Spetses”
  • Cebuano: “Nisí Spétses”
  • Cebuano: “Spétses”
  • Chinese: “斯派采岛”
  • Croatian: “Speces”
  • Danish: “Spetses”
  • Dutch: “Spetses”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سبيتسيس”
  • Esperanto: “Speceso”
  • Finnish: “Spétses”
  • French: “Spetses”
  • French: “Spetsès”
  • Galician: “Spetses”
  • German: “Spetses”
  • Greek: “Spétsai”
  • Greek: “Σπέτες”
  • Greek: “Σπέτσαι”
  • Greek: “Σπέτσες”
  • Hebrew: “ספצס”
  • Hungarian: “Szpécesz”
  • Italian: “Spetses”
  • Japanese: “アンベラキア”
  • Japanese: “スペツェス島”
  • Macedonian: “Спецес”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spetses”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spétses”
  • Persian: “اسپتسز”
  • Polish: “Spetses”
  • Portuguese: “Spetses”
  • Russian: “Спеце”
  • Serbian: “Спецес”
  • Slovenian: “Speces”
  • Spanish: “Spetses”
  • Swedish: “Nisí Spétses”
  • Swedish: “Spetses”
  • Turkish: “İspeçe”
  • Turkish: “Spetses”
  • Ukrainian: “Спеце”
  • Urdu: “سپیتسیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Spetses”
  • Welsh: “Spetses”
  • Western Armenian: “Սփեցես”

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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 “Spetses”. Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 3.0.