Festo

Also known as Phaestos, Phaestus, Festos

comune greco

Key facts

Ancient site.name: Phaistos
Ancient site.native_name: Pa-i-to
Ancient site.alternate_name: Phaestus
Ancient site.map: 285px
Ancient site.map_caption: Map of Minoan Crete
Ancient site.location: Faistos, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Ancient site.region: The eastern point of a ridge overlooking Messara Plain to the east
Ancient site.type: Minoan palace and city
Ancient site.area: for the palace. The city extended a few km into the valley below.
Ancient site.material: Trimmed blocks of limestone and alabaster, mudbrick, rubble, wood
Ancient site.built: First settlement dates to about 3000 BCE. First palace dates to about 1850 BCE. New palace dates to around 1700 BCE
Ancient site.epochs: Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age
Ancient site.cultures: Minoan
Ancient site.excavations: 1894, 1900–1920, 1950–1966, 2000–2004, 2007–present
Ancient site.archaeologists: Antonio Taramelli, Federico Halbherr, Luigi Pernier, Antonio Minto, Doro Levi, Vincenzo La Rosa, Fausto Longo
Ancient site.condition: Tamped soil, stone walkways, hand rails, lightly roofed areas
Ancient site.management: 23rd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
Ancient site.public_access: Yes

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: polis
Country: Greece
Located in: Faistos Municipality
Area: 411
Location: Faistos Municipality
Image: Festos1(js).jpg

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Commons category: Phaistos
located in/on physical feature: Crete
inception: 3000-00-00
topic's main category: Category:Phaistos
described at URL: odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=717
director of archaeological fieldwork: Doro Levi
described by source: Pauly–Wissowa
culture: Minoan civilization
visitors per year: 134538
native label: 𐘂𐘚𐘄

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Festo (in greco moderno: Φαιστός - Faistós) è un comune della Grecia situato nell'isola di Creta (unità periferica di Candia) con 23.882 abitanti secondo i dati del censimento 2001. È stato istituito a seguito della riforma amministrativa detta programma Callicrate in vigore dal gennaio 2011 che ha abolito le prefetture e accorpato numerosi comuni.

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