- Kastellokampos
Kastellokampos, also: Kastelokampos, Kastellokambos, Kastelokampos, Kastellokabos and Kastelokampos also with the o accented is a famous beach town located 7 km north of the downtown core of
Patras in theAchaea prefecture inGreece . The exact population is approximately between 2,000 and 3,000 including the rural population. It is connected with the road with the road connecting the GR-8/E55 (Athens -Corinth - Patras) andProasteio and Rio, it also connects direct with the old road via an underpass. TheCharadros river flows to the south, theUniversity of Patras is to the east along with the GR-8A/E55 , the northernmost of thePatras Bypass and the older GR-8 and the GR-5 and the GR-48 northbound. Its length is 1 km from north to south and approximately 2 km from west to east, theIonian Sea to the west and downtown Rio to the north. The OSE'sSPAP rail runs 20 m east of the main road.Nearest places
*Rio, north
*Agios Georgios, northeast
*Proasteio (neighbourhood), south
*Patras , southGeography
The area until the 1980s were made up of farmlands that mainly consisted of
olive andcitrus groves and several forests as well as others. Housing developments arrived in the 1970s and largely in the 1980s and filled itself with luxury houses that are between 10 to 15 m long. Electricity arrived in the 1950s as well as automobiles, radio and television came in the 1980s. Farmlands are now currently to the west as well as its road to its beach. The main street were later paved. The Rio-Patras boundary is to the southcentral part and its neighbourhood of Proasteio. In the same time, the population transitioned fromagriculture to urban and tourism. The total street length is approximately 6 to 8 km.Street names are named after several major
Cyclades Islands.Population
Other
Kastellokampos has a school, a lyceum (middle school) and gymnasium (secondary school) a church, and a square ("
plateia "). Its nearest hospital (Rio Regional Hospital ) is inRio .External links
* [http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=59425 Kastellokampos GTP Travel Pages]
ee also
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List of settlements in the Achaea prefecture
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