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Lechaio
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
Lechaio is a community in the municipality of Assos-Lechaio in Corinthia. It is about 4 to 5 kilometers west of Corinth and southeast of Kiato. GR-7 is west of its community hall. It had a population of 4,000 inhabitants in 2001. This place had an ancient harbor and had connections of a small harbor in Schinouda, now Kalamaki in the Saronic Gulf. An ancient road the marble-paved Lechaion Road which was connected with Corinth. The area is filled with mixed farming along with olive groves, citrus groves, pastures and other fruits and vegetables and some forests. Lechaion is especially known for its unique Soultanina species of grapes. The mountain of Acrocorinth lies to the southeast. The Roman bath was situated on the Lechaeum Road was built in the 3rd Century AD. Lechaio has schools, lyceums, a few gymnasia, churches, a port, beaches, a sporting team, Iraklis Lechaio, a post office, and squares or plateies. Lechaio also features a well-known early Christian Basilica church near the ancient port.
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