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.