Paralia Platanou

Paralia Platanou
Παραλία Πλατάνου
Paralia Platanou is located in Greece
Paralia Platanou
Paralia Platanou
Coordinates: 38°10′16″N 22°16′23″E / 38.171°N 22.273°E / 38.171; 22.273
CountryGreece
Administrative regionWest Greece
Regional unitAchaea
MunicipalityAigialeia
Municipal unitAkrata
Elevation
10 m (30 ft)
Population
 (2021)[1]
 • Community216
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Paralia Platanou (Greek: Παραλία Πλατάνου, English: "Platanos beach"), is a village and a community of the municipality Aigialeia, southwestern Greece.[2] 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.

  1. ^ "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών 2021, Μόνιμος Πληθυσμός κατά οικισμό" [Results of the 2021 Population - Housing Census, Permanent population by settlement] (in Greek). Hellenic Statistical Authority. 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ Παραλία Πλατάνου (Αχαΐας), EETAA local government changes