Amaliada
(Greek: Modern: Αμαλιάδα, Ancient: Αμαλιάς, Amalias)
or Amaliada City is a city in the western
Peloponnese, in Greece. It has 32,040 citizens (of
which about 18,000 live in the city and the rest
lives within Amalias). It is near the archealogical
site of Ancient Elis, which was the city that held
the ancient Olympic Games. It is situated on the
valley of the Prefecture of Ilia and almost directly
south of the Peneus river, 80 km from Patras, 7 km
form Savalia, 5 km from Kourouta, 20 km from Pyrgos
291 km from Athens and 5 km from the Ionian sea. It
is ranked the second largest city in Ilia. It is the
westernmost city in the Peloponnese.
It is named after Queen Amalia in the 1830s by
merging the two communes, one of them being Kallitsa
into Amalias.
It features city square with beautiful pine trees
and a fountain. Local streets are mainly in grid
order almost running north to south and east to
west. A laike is situated in Amaliada's east side
along with a public stadium that mainly plays
soccer. Amaliada has a hospital in its southeast and
a monastery named Aghia Frangavilli to its
southeast. Amaliada has one train station (located
west of the city square) and two in the
municipality.
A street in Amaliada's west side named Hiroshima is
mainly dedicated in memory of victims of the
Hiroshima Bombing before the end of WWII. Further
west are Amaliada's closest beaches of Kourouta and
Palouki.
The radio station for this community is the Radio
Station of Amalias (RSA).
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