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Prefecture Prefectures of Greece During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit... :	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:...
Municipality:	Loutraki-Perachoras
Population: (1991)  - Total  - Density  - Rank	1,296
Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:	Gulf of Corinth Gulf of Corinth The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece... 300 m northern part
Postal code:	281 00
Area/distance code:	11-(00)30-26710
Car designation:	KP

Perachora, also Perahora or Perakhora (Greek: Περαχώρα) is an inland settlement in the Loutraki-Perachoras municipality of the 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:...

 prefecture in the periphery

Peripheries of Greece

The current official regional administrative divisions of Greece were instituted in 1987. Although best translated into English as "regions", the transcription peripheries is sometimes used, perhaps to distinguish them from the traditional regions which they replaced. The English word 'periphery'...

 of 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...

 in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. It is located about 7 km NW of the town of Loutraki

Loutraki

Loutraki is a seaside resort located 84 km W of Athens and 4 km NE of Corinth in the Prefecture of Corinthia, Greece. Loutraki is the seat of the municipality Loutraki-Perachora. The town is well-known for its vast natural springs and its therapeutic spas.-History:In antiquity a town...

 in a hilly environment surrounded by higher elevation of the Geraneia

Geraneia

Mount Geraneia or Gerania , rarely Yerania is a mountain range that spans about 5 km from north to south and from east to west from 15 to 20 km. Mount Geraneia or Gerania , rarely Yerania is a mountain range that spans about 5 km from north to south (about 5 km N of Agioi Theodoroi to the Gulf of...

 mountains. Officially it shares the seat of the municipality with Loutraki. Perachora's name is a transformation of the phrase "Peraia Hora" meaning in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 "the land on the other side" of Isthmus of Corinth

Isthmus of Corinth

The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. The word "isthmus" comes from the Ancient Greek word for "neck" and refers to the narrowness of the land. The Isthmus was known in the ancient...

, (the modern Corinth Canal

Corinth Canal

The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island. The builders dug the canal through...

). The other side for Perachora is the (geographically opposite) ancient city of Corinth

Corinth

Corinth is a city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...

. Perachora has a population of about 1,200 and it is built 300 metres above sea level. The village is built amphitheatrically on the surrounding hills having a panoramic view at the Corinthian Gulf in the SW and the Limni Vouliagmeni, a coastal settlement next to a blue lagoon in the West.

The rocky cape Heraion with its stone lighthouse

Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....

 together with the ancient temple of Hera

Hera

Hera was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of Greek mythology and religion. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage. Her counterpart in the religion of ancient Rome was Juno. The cow and the peacock were sacred to her...

 Limenia the Heraion

Heraion of Perachora

The Heraion of Perachora was a sanctuary of the goddess Hera situated in a small cove of the Corinthian gulf at the end of the Perachora peninsula. In addition to a temple of Hera of unusual construction and antiquity, the remains of a number of other structures have also been found, including a...

, is at the western approaches next to the Limni Vouliagmenis lagoon. The ancient city of Oinoi is today a small coastal settlement named Schinos. In the lagoon area the epic movie Lion of Sparta aka The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Cinemascope film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese...

was filmed in 1962.

The area around the village has typically agricultural Mediterranean scenery with green-silver olive trees being the single most important crop. Extended pine

Aleppo Pine

Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo Pine, is a pine native to the Mediterranean region. Their range extends from Morocco and Spain north to southern France, Italy and Croatia, and east to Greece and northern Tunisia, and Libya, with an outlying population in Syria, Lebanon, southern...

tree forests exist in some of the surrounding mountains, sometimes reaching the coast. Notable local products include virgin olive oil and natural pinetrees resin

Resin

Resin in the most specific use of the term is a hydrocarbon secretion of many plants, particularly coniferous trees. Resins are valued for their chemical properties and associated uses, such as the production of varnishes, adhesives, and food glazing agents; as an important source of raw materials...

.

Historical population

Year	Population
1991	1,296

Other

Perachora has a school, a middle school (lyceum), a secondary (gymnasium) school, two churches and a square (plateia

Plateia

Plateia or platia is the Greek word for town square. Most Greek and Cypriot cities have several town squares which are a point of reference in travelling and guiding...

).

External links

• www.peraxora.gr
• GTP Travel Pages
• Map and aerial photos:
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• Coordinates: 38°1′48"N 22°58′0"E