Velestino
Sign in to saveVelestino (; ) is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Rigas Feraios.
Key facts
- Greek Dimos.name
- Velestino
- Greek Dimos.name_local
- ΒελεστίνοVelescir
- Greek Dimos.type
- community
- Greek Dimos.periph
- Thessaly
- Greek Dimos.periphunit
- Magnesia
- Greek Dimos.municipality
- Rigas Feraios
- Greek Dimos.municunit
- Feres
- Greek Dimos.population
- 3202
- Greek Dimos.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greek Dimos.elevation
- 120
- Greek Dimos.postal_code
- 37 500
- Greek Dimos.area_code
- 24250
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Velestino (; ) is a town in the Magnesia regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality Rigas Feraios.
==Location== It is situated at elevation on a hillside, at the southeastern end of the Thessalian Plain. It is west of Volos and 40 km southeast of Larissa. Velestino has a train station on the local line from Larissa to Volos. The A1 motorway (Athens–Thessaloniki–Evzonoi) passes east of the town. The Greek writer and revolutionary Rigas Feraios was born in Velestino in 1757.