Phthiotis - prefecture of Greece

Phthiotis is a region in Central Greece.

Regions

Cities

• Agios Konstantinos, Phthiotis 📍 — A harbor with a regular ferry-boat connection to the islands of Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonnisos.
• Atalanti 📍 —
• Kamena Vourla 📍 — A holiday resort and a spa town.
• Lamia 📍 — The regional capital
• Ypati 📍 — An old town still dominated by a medieval castle. It was the capitale of a Crusader State in the 14th century.

Other destinations

• Lichadonisia 📍 (Lichades) — A complex of seven inhabited islets opposite the town of Kammena Vourla and visited by many tourists in the summer.
• Loutra Ypatis 📍 — The village is famous for its hot springs and boasts several hotels.
• Mount Oeta National Park 📍 — Access through dirt-roads by a 4X4 vehicle from Ypati, Neochori and other nearby villages.
• Theologos 📍 — A fishing village

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• Gorgopotamos Bridge 📍 — The railway bridge over the river Gorgopotamos is famous for one of the biggest sabotage acts of World War II, known as "Operation Harling". A British mission and 150 Greek partisans blew it up on 25 November 1942, cutting off German supplies being transported between Athens and Thessaloniki.
• Thermopylae 📍 — A narrow coastal passage, famous for the battle that took place there in 480 BC

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