Voud Βουδ
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... :	Achaia
Province Provinces of Greece The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially finance services and education, as well as for electoral purposes... :	Patras
City:	Patras Patras Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
Section:	Central
Distance from downtown:	1 km east
Population: (2001) Total Density Rank	about 3,000 to 4,000 -/km²
Population percentage (2005):	about 3%
Elevation:  -lowest:  -centre:  -highest:	20 m (west) about 40 m (centre) about 50 to 60 m (east)
Area/distance code:	11-0030-2610

Vοud (Greek: Βουδ) is a neighbourhood in the central part of the city of Patras

Patras

Patras , ) is Greece's third largest urban area and the regional capital of West Greece, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...

, 1 km direct and 500 m via road from the downtown core. Voud is linked with Lontou Street.

Information

Today in the neighbourhood features Voud Square, in the area around 1850, it had a villa owned by the English grape trader Thomas William Wood (1816-1894) in which he moved to Patras in 1834. In the villa features ancient artifacts and busts of Artemis (4th century BC) and Iacchos (2nd century AD), etc. The ancient council was donated by Frederick Wood in the Patras Archeological Museum.

Geography

Its geography is in a hilly setting and are residential, the forests are founded to the north.

History

The area were made up farmlands until when housing developments arrived in the late-19th and the early-20th centuries. It were made up of neoclassical buildings. After World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 and the Greek Civil War

Greek Civil War

The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by the United Kingdom and United States, and the Democratic Army of Greece , the military branch of the Greek Communist Party , backed by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania...

, they were replaced with six to eight story buildings which covers much of the area, several neoclassical buildings remain today. Traffic lights were installed in the 1970s.

Panorama

Its panorama includes the Panachaiko

Panachaiko

The Panachaikon or Panachaiko , also known as Vodias in medieval times and until the early 20th century, is a mountain range that spans about 20 km in length from north to south , and 15 to 20 km from east to west...

 mountains to the east, more to the south and southeast including Omplos

Omplos

Omplos is a mountain in the northern part of Achaea, Greece. It rises 720 m above sea level. The mountain is shaped like a sugar-loaf, with a 65° slope. The mountain can be reached by three unused roads, one that leads almost to the top of the mountain, one linking to Ovrya in the West, and...

 and Varasova

Varasova

Varasova or Varassova mountain is a mountain range dominating the northern part of the Aitolia-Akarnania prefecture in western Greece. Its length is approximately 7 km long from northwest to southeast and its width is approximately 2 km wide from southeast to northwest...

 and Arakynthos

Arakynthos

Arakynthos is a former municipality in Aetolia-Acarnania, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Agrinio, of which it is a municipal unit. It consists of the villages of Ano Kerasovo, Kato Kerasovo, Zevgaraki, Papadates , Mataranga and Grammatikou....

 to the west, it cannot see the mountains to the north because it is blocked by its nearest mountains.

Other

Voud has a few schools, a lyceum (secondary school), a gymnasium (high school), a few churches and a few squares (plateies

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...

)..