Kiato
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Town
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is located in the northern part of the prefecture of Corinthia
Corinthia
Corinthia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Peloponnese. It is situated around the city of Corinth, in the north-eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula.-Geography:...
in the Peloponnese
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesos or Peloponnesus , is a large peninsula , located in a region of southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...
, Greece. Kiato is located in a sandy area which features lemon
Lemon
The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...
tree
Tree
A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...
s, orange
Orange (fruit)
An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....
trees, and other fruit
Fruit
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-bearing trees. It has a lot of tourist
Tourism
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activity mainly in the summer. The ancient name of Kiato was Sikyon and the municipality of Sikyona
Sikyona
Sikyona is a municipality in Corinthia, Greece. Population 19,455 . The seat of the municipality is in Kiato. Sikyona takes its name from the ancient city Sicyon, which was located in the same territory.-Municipality:...
is named after this place. In the antiquity it had a great prosperity, especially from the middle of the 2nd century BC. Kiato is linked with GR-8
Greek National Road 8
The National Road 8 in Greece is a single carriageway with at-grade intersections in the Attica and Peloponnese regions. It links the cities of Patras, Corinth and Athens. Until the 1960s when the National Road 8A, a toll road, replaced it as a major route, it was the only road linking Athens and...
and the Elissos
Elissos
The Elisos is a river that flows entirely in Corinthia in the northeastern Peloponnese in Greece.-Geography:The river begins in the mountains of Nemea to the south and are filled with rocks and grasslands with traces of trees, it enters the valley with Nemea and into the mountains of mixed...
river flows near the centre of Kiato. It also serves a junction on a road linking to Stymfalia
Stymfalia
Stymphalia is a village and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sikyona, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 2,852 . The seat of the municipality was in Kalianoi, 41 km southwest of the town of...
and Levidi
Levidi
Levidi is a small town and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tripoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The village sits on the eastern part of the slope of the Mainalo mountains. The pine forests are...
to the southwest. On the same road 2 km south is GR-8A
Greek National Road 8A
Greek National Road 8A is a toll road running from Kifissou avenue, in Athens up to the northeast of Patras. It is a highway from Kifissou avenue up to Corinth, for about 85 km and the rest is an undivided highway with just one lane per direction. The total length is 215 km, but for the...
/E55
European route E55
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(Athens - Patras), E94 eastbound with its exit at the 109th km. Kiato is located almost halfway between Patras and Athens. It is located approximately 30 km (old distance, 25 km) NW of Corinth, about 111 km W of Athens
Athens
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, about 110 km E of Patras
Patras
Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
, 98 km E of the Rio-Antirio bridge
Rio-Antirio bridge
The Rion-Antirion bridge , officially the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge after the statesman who first envisaged it, is the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridge...
and about 40 km NE of Stymfalia. Groves surround Kiato while fruit and vegetable farming areas lie to the southeast and parts near Kiato. Forests lie within the shorelines to the east and west and some to the south and along the hills. The hills lie to the south.
As of 9 July 2007, Kiato is now accessible via the Proastiakos
Proastiakos
Proastiakós , is the name used for the suburban services of TrainOSE, servicing Greece's three largest cities: Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras; providing them with modern commuter rail links, towards their suburbs and also towards other cities and towns located around them.The service, operated by...
(Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
Suburban Railway).
Historical population
| Year | Population | Municipality population |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 8,232 | - |
| 1991 | 9,100 | 18,316 |
| 2001 | 9,743 | 19,455 |
Notable people
- Emilios T. HarlaftisEmilios T. HarlaftisEmilios T. Harlaftis was an astrophysicist.Harlaftis obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Athens in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree at the University of Oxford in 1991...
(1965-2005) Astrophysicist - Alexandros AlexandrisAlexandros AlexandrisAlexandros "Alekos" Alexandris is a former Greek football striker.-Club career:Alekos Alexandris began his career where he was born and raised, in the historic PELOPAS of Kiato, Greece soccer team and in 1986 played for Veroia. After Veroia he moved to Greece giants AEK Athens in 1991 where he won...
Footballer - Yiannis Spanos Composer and lyricist
External links
- Our Kiato (www.pelopas.webs.com)
- Mapquest - Kiato, street map not yet available
- Coordinates: 38°0′38"N 22°44′56"E
Nearest places
- SicyonSicyonSikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia...
, also known as VasilikoVasilikoVasiliko may refer to the following places in Greece:*Vasiliko, Achaea, a village in Achaea*Vasiliko, Euboea, a village in Euboea*Vasiliko, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina Prefecture*Vasiliko, Messenia, a village in Messenia...
, south - Pasio (town), southwest
- Diminio, west
| Northwest: Xylokastro Xylokastro Xylokastro is a town and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Xylokastro-Evrostina, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 40 km W of Corinth via Greek National Road 8A/E65... |
North: Corinthian Gulf | |
| West: Xylokastro |
Sikyonia | East: Velo Velo, Greece Velo is a town and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Velo-Vocha, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located about 15 km west from Corinth, and 5 km southeast of Kiato... |
| South: Vocha |