Lasiona, Elis

Lasiona (Greek, Modern: Λασιώνα, Ancient/Katharevousa: Λασιών Lasion) is a municipality in the northern part of the Elis Prefecture, Greece. Its seat of administration is the village Panopoulo (Greek, Modern: Πανόπουλο, Ancient/Katharevousa: -n). It is accessed by a road connecting Patras and Tripoli, the GR-33 and the Amaliada to Simpoulo Road about 4 km E and the road to Pyrgos W. It is located about 50 km S of Patras, about 70 km from the Rio-Antirio bridge, about 35 km W of Lampeia, about 100 km W of Tripoli, about 45 km N of Olympia and about 45 km NE of Pyrgos.

Nearest places

• Simpoulo, NW
  
• Antroni S
  

Panopoulo has a school, a church, a small post office and a square (plateia).

Much of the area are covered with forests including the north and the south and the central part and grasslands to the east. The central part and within the communities and villages have some farmland.

Lasiona was named after the ancient city called Lasion. It was partially destroyed 219 BC by Philip V of Macedon and rebuild and destroyed around 397 AD by the Goths and their ruler Alarich. In 522 it was destroyed by a strong earthquake. Parts of the remains of the city were discovered 1842 by Welker.

On September 2003, Panopoulo held the third stage of the 28th ELPA Rally which is sponsored by ELPA which was cancelled due to an enormous accident on stage 1 The stage 3 was the final one. Its length for the SS3 part is 20.79 km running from Simopoulo.

Tsipiana

Tsipiana

Division of the municipality

• Antroni / Δ.δ. Αντρωνίου [ 802 ]
  
  • Panopoulos / ο Πανόπουλος [ 314 ]
    
  • Agios Georgios / ο Άγιος Γεώργιος [ 42 ]
    
  • Antroni / το Αντρώνι [ 397 ]
    
  • Chania Spartoulia / τα Χάνια Σπαρτουλιά [ 49 ]
    
• Agia Kyriaki / Δ.δ. Αγίας Κυριακής -- η Αγία Κυριακή [ 121 ]
  
• Agia Triada / Δ.δ. Αγίας Τριάδος -- η Αγία Τριάς [ 356 ]
  
• Kakotari / Δ.δ. Κακοταρίου -- το Κακοτάριον [ 386 ]
  
• Kryovrysi / Δ.δ. Κρυόβρυσης [ 622 ]
  
  • Kryovrysi / η Κρυόβρυση [ 544 ]
    
  • Kalyvia / τα Καλύβια [ 78 ]
    
• Tsipiana / Δ.δ. Τσιπιανών [ 275 ]
  
  • Tsipiana / τα Τσιπιανά [ 240 ]
    
  • Agios Andreas / ο Άγιος Ανδρέας [ 19 ]
    
  • Keresova / η Κερέσοβα [ 16 ]
    

Agia Kyriaki

Agia Kyriaki is a mountain village (940 m) on Mount Erymanthos (where according to Greek Mythology Heracles captured the Erymanthean Boar). Agia Kyriaki in the past was known as Kertiza.

Agia Triada

Agia Triada was called in the past Bokovina.

Antroni

Antroni (Αντρώνι) is a village near the site of ancient Olympia. Probably the village was formed earlier than 1200 . Like other parts in the Peloponnese it was ruled by the Ottomans from 1460 to 1685. Then it was ruled c. 30 years by the Venetians and again by the Ottomans.

Near the village is the gorge of Antroni. In Antroni is the byzantine church Agion Anargyron with wallpaintings.

Kryovrysi

Kryovrysi (older name Vervini or Dervini) is a mountain village (alt. c. 1000 m) on the Mount Erymanthos. Near the village are scattered parts of airplanes destroyed in a airbattle in 1940.