Vrisa
Sign in to saveVrisa () is a village in the southern part of Lesbos island approximately 50 km from Mytilene. The village is named after one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesbos during the ten-year Trojan War. Five kilometers south is the famous Vatera beach. On June 12, 2017 Vrisa was severely damaged in an earthquake that struck approximately 12 km South of the town of Plomari. Most people could not return to their homes, rendering the village effectively a "ghost village".
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Place details
- Locality
- Δημοτική Ενότητα Πολιχνίτου
- Region
- Περιφέρεια Βόρειου Αιγαίου
- Country
- Ελλάς
- Population
- 617
- Timezone
- Europe/Athens
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 617
- Elevation
- 43
- Image
- Vrissa - 1998-11-08 - 07.jpg
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- located in/on physical feature
- Lesbos
- postal code
- 813 00
- Commons category
- Vrissa
- native label
- Βρίσα
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Vrisa () is a village in the southern part of Lesbos island approximately 50 km from Mytilene. The village is named after one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesbos during the ten-year Trojan War. Five kilometers south is the famous Vatera beach. On June 12, 2017 Vrisa was severely damaged in an earthquake that struck approximately 12 km South of the town of Plomari. Most people could not return to their homes, rendering the village effectively a "ghost village".
Four kilometres southwest is the Temple of Dionysos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vrisa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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