Pitsidia
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Pitsidia Τοπική Κοινότητα Πιτσιδίων (Πιτσίδια) |
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| Country |
 Greece
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| region | Crete | ||
| Regional district | Heraklion | ||
| local community | Festos | ||
| Geographic coordinates | 35 ° 1 ' N , 24 ° 47' E | ||
| Residents | 760 (2011) | ||
| LAU-1 code no. | 91250901 | ||
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Pitsidia ( Greek Πιτσίδια ( n. Pl. )) Is a village in the south of the Greek island of Crete , a few kilometers northeast of the more well-known tourist resort Matala . As part of the Tymbaki Parish, it belongs to the Festos Parish .
Pitsidia locality
Pitsidia is the administrative seat of the town of the same name.
- Pitsidia - 666 inhabitants
- Matala - 67 inhabitants
- Neo Kalamaki - 27 inhabitants
tourism
Although tourism, which is gentler than Matala, has been established since the 1970s - initially borne by “dropouts”, then increasingly by individual tourists - the structure of the place has changed comparatively little. So there is still no big hotel, but there are countless small and very small guesthouses. The small village with the Plateis, the village square in the center, is surrounded by a multitude of smaller and larger holiday homes with a wide variety of furnishings. In the meantime, the place and its surroundings, for example the neighboring village of Sivas , are heavily influenced by German-speaking (partial) resettlers, many houses have been bought up. The previously noticeably high proportion of German teachers has now been reduced to one that is no longer worth mentioning, even if some Crete travel guides still note this as a special feature.
Because of a large archaeological reserve, Pitsidia is about 800 m from the sea. The long sandy beach of Komos , which stretches to Kalamaki at the southwest end of the Messara plain , is therefore of great tourist importance .
history
Pitsidia is the oldest village in the area. The historian Stergios Spanakis suspected that this was the base of the army of the Byzantine general Nikephorus II Phocas . The name of the place is said to derive from Pisidia , the home of the Byzantine soldiers. According to Kastrofilaka , Pitsidia had 89 inhabitants in 1583 and the census of 1834 recorded 30 Christian families in the place.
Worth seeing
There are several churches in the village: Agios Georgios , Agia Paraskevi , Agios Ioannis, Agios Stefanos and Agios Panteleimon on the beach of Komos . There is also a small church at the old well that is dedicated to water.
On Komos Beach there are the Minoan excavations of the port city of Kommos , but they are fenced. In the olive groves between Pitsidia and Kamilari , the ruins of the temple of Loggos and an estate were uncovered.
literature
- Eberhard Fohrer, Kreta , Erlangen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89953-453-5 , pp. 357-359
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
- ↑ Pitsidia at interkriti.org
- ^ Robert Pashley, Travels in Crete , Volume II, Cambridge, 1837, pp. 315-316
- ↑ Pitsidia at travel.spotter.be ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Pitsidia at hidden-crete.com
