Book Hotels in Xylokastro
Population: Unkown
Latitude: 22.635913
Longitude: 38.076875
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Xylokastro (Greek: Ξυλόκαστρο, derived from Solo Castro as the area was designated on old maps De Wit, 1680) 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. In 2001 its population was 5,618 for the village and 15,273 for the municipal district. The river Sythas runs to its west and there are mountains to its south and southwest.
The municipal unit Xylokastro is subdivided into the following communities (2001 population and constituent villages in brackets):
The town offers a beautiful beach. Agriculture surrounds the town. The town was known as Viladusa by the Venetians in the mid-to-late 2nd millennium. The community has a school, a church, a police station, a post office, banks, a volleyball arena, and a square (plateia). It is famous as a seaside tourist spot and are well equipped with a number of hotels. Its nearest communications tower is on a mountain southwest of town (about 6 km). A medium earthquake rumbled the town and some of its surroundings a few kilometres into the sea on Friday October 24, 2008 and measured 4.5 on the Richter scale.
Its geography varies from farmlands within the coastline and parts of the south, forests in the southeast and mostly grassy to the southwest.
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