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” and “アンベラキア”
  • Postal code: 18050

Places of Interest

Highlights: Laskarina Bouboulina museum and Museum of Spetses.

Museum
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Museum
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The Spetses Museum is a in Spetses, .

Hotel
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The is a luxury hotel on the island of Spetses, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kosta.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km north of Spetses.

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)
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Bulgarian: “Спецес”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “स्पेत्सेस”
  • Hungarian: “Szpécesz”
  • Italian: “Spetses”
  • 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: “Spetses”
  • Turkish: “İspeçe”
  • Turkish: “Spetses”
  • Ukrainian: “Спеце”
  • Urdu: “سپیتسیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Spetses”
  • Welsh: “Spetses”
  • Western Armenian: “Սփեցես”

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