Sideros
Sign in to saveSideros (), is the outermost of a chain of two island-like peninsulas forming, with Itanos promontory, Cape Sidero. They are all three the summits of submarine elevations connected by rocky surface cols on which a road has been constructed to Cape Sidero Lighthouse, the elevated facsimile chapel of Saint Isidore, and Port Joannis, a cove of (about 4 m). There are ruins of an ancient temple of Athena destroyed by a tsunami and facilities of the Kyriamadi Naval Station. Kyriamadi is the other island-like peninsula in the chain. Administratively the cape lies within the Itanos municipal unit
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- Instance of
- peninsula
- Part of
- Crete
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 0
- Body of water
- Sea of Crete
- Image
- Junior church2.jpg
- Width
- 1.23
- Length
- 3
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- Etymology
- Geography
- Spitfire rock
- Sidero or Strongylos Island
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Sideros (), is the outermost of a chain of two island-like peninsulas forming, with Itanos promontory, Cape Sidero. They are all three the summits of submarine elevations connected by rocky surface cols on which a road has been constructed to Cape Sidero Lighthouse, the elevated facsimile chapel of Saint Isidore, and Port Joannis, a cove of (about 4 m). There are ruins of an ancient temple of Athena destroyed by a tsunami and facilities of the Kyriamadi Naval Station. Kyriamadi is the other island-like peninsula in the chain. Administratively the cape lies within the Itanos municipal unit, Sitia Municipality, Lasithi regional unit, and Crete region.
==Etymology==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sideros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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