Leontari is a town, seat of the former municipality of Falaisia

Falaisia

Falaisia is a village and a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Megalopoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat is in Leontari, 5 km north of the village Falaisia...

, in the southwestern part of Arcadia

Arcadia

Arcadia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Peloponnese. It is situated in the central and eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas. In Greek mythology, it was the home of the god Pan...

. It is south of GR-7

Greek National Road 7

The Moreas Motorway is a motorway in Peloponnese, Greece. Locally it is known as the Moréas , which was the medieval name of the Peloponnese. The A7 begins just west of the Isthmus of Corinth, branching off from Greek National Road 8A...

/E55

European route E55

European route E 55 is a E-route. It passes through the following cities:Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Nykøbing Falster – Gedser … Rostock – Berlin – Lübbenau – Dresden – Teplice – Prague – Tábor – Linz – Salzburg – Villach – Tarvisio – Udine – Palmanova – Mestre...

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Distances

It is located about 6 km S of Megalopoli, about 175 km (old 230 km) from 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...

, about 30 km (old 39 km) SW of Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

Tripoli is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants in the central part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture of Arcadia and the centre of the municipality of Tripolis, pop...

, W of Anavryto

Anavryto

Anavryto is a community divided into two villages, Ano Anavryto which is on the western part of mount Tsiberou, and Kato Anavryto on the other side of the valley, west of Anavryto.-Geography:...

, NW of Sparta

Sparta

Sparta or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the River Eurotas in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. It emerged as a political entity around the 10th century BC, when the invading Dorians subjugated the local, non-Dorian population. From c...

, NE of Kalamata

Kalamata

Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...

 and ENE of Kyparissia

Kyparissia

Kyparissia is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Trifylia, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The town proper has around 5,708 inhabitants. The town is located on Greek National Road 9,...

. It is located south of the Alfeios

Alfeios River

Alfeiós is the longest river in the Peloponnese, in Greece. The river is 110 km long, flowing through the prefectures of Arcadia and Ilia. Its source is near Megalopoli in the highlands of Arcadia. The river begins near Davia in central Arcadia, then flows between Leontari and Megalopoli through a...

 river.

Geography

The nearest places are:

• Veligosti
  Veligosti
  Veligosti is a Greek settlement located around 12 km south of Megalopoli, 3 km SSE from the nearest interchange with the GR-7/E65 , about 48 km northeast of Kalamata, about 4 km west of Leontari and about 40 km west-southwest of Tripoli. Veligosti is also in the...
  
   (west)
• Megalopoli (north)
• Vrysoules (northeast)
• Falaisia south
• Kalyvia, southwest
• Kotsiridi, west
• Petrina
  Petrina, Arcadia
  Petrina is a Greek village in Arcadia, located 4 km south of Voutsara around 15 to 18 km southeast of Megalopoli, 12 km east from the nearest interchange with the GR-7/E65 east of Leontari and 60 km from Kalamata, about 40 and 45 km west-southwest of Tripoli and northwest...
  
   (east)

Villages

• Leontari, pop. 289
• Gavria, pop. 10
• Kalyvia, pop.24
• Kamaritsa, pop. 24
• Kotsiridi, pop. 37

History

Leontari was devastated by a forest fire that reached the village on Saturday August 25, 2007 and burnt the western portion of the area with gusty winds that reached as high as 80 to 90 km/h and hot temperatures. Residents and firefighters battled the blaze along with a few choppers and planes. The fire reached the western portion as flames arrived from a forested area to the west and entered the road linking Megalopoli and Sparta. It burnt tens of houses and left several residents out of the village, several flames were towering. The fire entered the village during the evening hours, towering flames were seen from town, the next morning, flames reached the eastern portion and later consumed the southern and eastern parts and with a nearly slow moving, flames advanced into Kamares along with Kamaritsa on Sunday and the eastern portion on Monday.

External links

• Church of the Holy Apostles
• History of Leontari
• http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/places/liont.htm