Olympos National Park
Olympos National Park, in the Macedonian-Thessalian border in northern Greece, is home to Mount Olympus, the country's highest mountain.Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: national park in Greece
- Also known as: “Olympus National (Woodland) Park”, “Olympus National Park core”, and “Πυρήνας Εθνικού Δρυμού Ολύμπου”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Olympos National Park and Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus.
Olympos National Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Olympus is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, in Greece, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km southwest from Thessaloniki.
Agios Dionysios Monastery, Olympus
Church
Photo: Haneburger, CC0.
The Monastery of Agios Dionysios in Olympus is a Greek Orthodox monastery on the slopes of Mount Olympus, the most important monastery in the Pieria Prefecture.
Olympos National Park
- Categories: national park and recreation area
- Location: Macedonia, Northern Greece, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.0635° or 40° 3′ 48″ northLongitude
22.4077° or 22° 24′ 28″ eastElevation
2,748 metres (9,016 feet)Open location code
8GG43C75+93OpenStreetMap ID
way 542440151OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Olympos National Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Olympus National Park”
- Dutch: “Nationaal park Olympos”
- German: “Nationalpark Olympos”
- German: “Olymp Nationalpark”
- German: “Olymp”
- Greek: “Εθνικός δρυμός Ολύμπου”
- Greek: “Εθνικός Δρυμός Ολύμπου”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale del Monte Olimpo”
- Polish: “Ethnikos Drimos Olimbu”
- Russian: “Национальный парк ‘Гора Олимп’”
- Russian: “Национальный парк ‘Олимп’”
- Russian: “Национальный парк Олимп”
- Swedish: “Olympos nationalpark”
- Swedish: “Olympus nationalpark”
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