FILIATRA

'Filiatra' (Greek: Φιλιατρά), is a town located in western Messenia. It is passed by GR-9 and is located south of Kyparissia and Pyrgos, w of Kalamata and Messene and 15 km N of Gargalianoi. Its nearby communities are Armenioi or Exochori to the north and Gargalianoi to the northwest. 'Municipality of Filiatra' (Greek: Δήμος Φιλιατρών) is also a municipality of this name and is also the seat of this municipality.
The weekly small newspaper for the town is ''Neolaia''. The D Division or junior/quaternary soccer team for the town is Erani Filiatron.
Filiatra has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a square ''plateia'', a fountain, and banks. The square features forests surrounding the northern and the eastern part and a fountain in the middle. It also includes tables which is connected with a local restaurant and a three-storey clock tower with brown-colored bricks and a clock at the top with a white-colored wall. and The area is covered with hills filled with olive groves and some forests. The Ionian Sea is west of Filiatra.

Contents

Communities

Historical population

Famous People

External links

See also

Communities

★ Chalazoni (pop: 250)

★ Christianoupoli (pop: 384)

★ Exochiko (pop: 196)

★ 'Filiatra'

★ Mali (pop: 105)

★ Plati (pop: 226)

Historical population

Year	Municipal population	Change	Municipal population
1981	5,139	-	-
1991	6,062	923/17.96%	7,753

Famous People

★ Nikolaos Lyberopoulos

External links

★ Filiatra

★ Neolaia, formerly Filiatra-Faces-on-the-Net (in Greek)

★ Filiatra (erana.gr)

★ Filiatra-Faces-on-the-Net

	'North:' Kyparissia
'West:' Ionian Sea	'Filiatra'	'East:' Papaflessa
	'South:' Gargalianoi

See also

★ Communities of Messenia