Boeotia

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Boeotia Description

(Local Name: Viotía) Boeotia occupies an area of 3,000 sq. km/1,160 sq. mi in central Greece, between the gulfs of Corinth and Euboea and between Phocis and Attica. The plain around its capital, Thebes, and in the Asopos valley - supplemented in modern times by the land won by the drainage of Lake Kopais - have made Boeotia an agricultural region since ancient times; and its inhabitants were traditionally regarded as rather uncouth rustics, in spite of the fact that Hesiod, Pindar and Plutarch all came from Boeotia. In the field of art it produced only the sculptor Kalami, famed for his figures of horses.

In Mycenaean times Boeotia had important fortified towns such as Thebes, Orchomenos and Gla. In the

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Hobbies & Activities category: Agricultural area or museum; Archeological site or ruin; Region with significant interests; Christian sites; Towers, monuments, observation deck

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Boeotia Tourist Office
Town Hall
Viotía
Greece