Paralia Platanou Explained

Paralia Platanou
Name Local:Παραλία Πλατάνου
Type:community
Periph:West Greece
Periphunit:Achaea
Municipality:Aigialeia
Pop Community:216
Population As Of:2021
Elevation:10
Coordinates:38.171°N 22.273°W

Paralia Platanou (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Παραλία Πλατάνου, English: "Platanos beach"), is a village and a community of the municipality Aigialeia, southwestern Greece.[1] It is situated on the seashore of the Gulf of Corinth below Platanos village. The entrance to the village is found a short distance beyond Kryoneri Bay, on the 155th km (97th mile) of the Old National Corinth-Patras Road at a designated exit. It is served by Platanos railway station on the line from Kiato to Aigio.

Noted beaches are Avgolemono (153rd km/98th mile), Liontari (160th km/100th mile), and the neighbouring Punta Beach, below Trapeza village.

Platanos is famous for its natural Artesian spring water, and for Λιοντάρι (Liontari, i.e. a natural, house-sized rocky formation in the shape of a lion at the western end of the village on the edge of a mountain slope.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.eetaa.gr/eetaa/metaboles/oikmet_details.php?id=20798 Παραλία Πλατάνου (Αχαΐας)