Spata
Sign in to saveSpata () is a town east of downtown Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Spata-Artemida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit (officially named Spata-Loutsa) has an area of 55.042 km2. It is part of the Athens metropolitan area.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Spata
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- Σπάτα
- Greek Dimos.type
- municipal unit
- Greek Dimos.image_map
- Dimos Spaton.png
- Greek Dimos.map_caption
- Location within the regional unit
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Attica
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- East Attica
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Spata-Artemida
- Greek Dimos.pop_municunit
- 12991
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.area_municunit
- 55.042
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 150
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 190 04
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 210
- Greek Dimos.licence
- Z
- Greek Dimos.website
- www.spata.gr
- Greek Dimos.image_skyline
- Spata airview.jpg
- Greek Dimos.caption_skyline
- Aerial view of Spata with Athens in the background
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Spata () is a town east of downtown Athens, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Spata-Artemida, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit (officially named Spata-Loutsa) has an area of 55.042 km2. It is part of the Athens metropolitan area.
==Geography and economy== Spata is situated in the middle of the Mesogeia plain, east of Mount Hymettus and west of the Aegean Sea coast. Athens International Airport ("Eleftherios Venizelos") covers the eastern portion of Spata. It is located southeast of Pallini, southwest of Rafina, west of Artemida and about east south east of Athens city center.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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