Rapsommati is a village within the municipality

Municipality

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 of Megalopoli in the southwestcentral 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...

, Greece

Greece

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. It is located 38 km SW of Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

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, about six km west of Anemodouri, about 16 km W from Anavryto, about 8 or 9 km north from Routsi, 6 km southeast of Megalopoli, about 12 km northeast of Leontari

Leontari

Leontari is a town, seat of the former municipality of Falaisia, in the southwestern part of Arcadia...

, 59 km ENE of Kalamata

Kalamata

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 and E of Kyparissia

Kyparissia

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. A tunnel located NE of the community is named after this place, the Rapsommati Tunnel or officially the Artemisio Tunnel which is passed by GR-7

Greek National Road 7

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/E65

European route E65

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 (Tripoli - Kalamata).

Nearest places

• Mallota
  Mallota
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  , north-northwest
• Marmaria, east
• Anemodouri
  Anemodouri
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   southeast
• Routsi
  Routsi
  Routsi is a village in the eastern part of the municipal unit of Falaisia. Distance from Megalopolis is 11 km SE...
  
  , S
• Perivolia, W

Geography

Much of the community is forested, with trees no taller than 10 or 15 m except for a few pine trees. Mountains are to the east and the south and it is not far from the SPAP

Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways

Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways or SPAP was a Greek railway company founded in 1882, which owned and operated the line connecting Piraeus and Athens to Peloponnese. The company was nationalized in 1954 and absorbed by the Hellenic State Railways in 1962.-History:The first line section...

/OSE

OSE

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 railway line linking Kalamata, Tripoli, Argos

Argos

Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...

 and Corinth

Corinth

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. The Alfeios River flows to the southeast in a gorge.

Historical population

Year	Population
1981	129
1991	155
2001	97

Information

The population rose between 1981 and 1991 Rapsommati was one of the few villages in the province that recovered its population. The 2001 census showed that the population diminished by more than one-third from the 1991 census. The only area that lost its forests was for the construction of the superhighway between Tripoli and Kalamata which began in 2000 and finished in 2003 to make the route easier from difficult mountain curvy roads. It was half complete in 2002 and opened a tunnel named Artemisio Tunnel. The total length is 1.365 km/1,365 m. The highway in 2003 was opened to traffic. The superhighway runs in the northwestern and the northern parts.

External links

• History and Information about Rapsommati