Lagkadia (Greek: Λαγκάδια), is a village and a municipality located in northwestern Arcadia. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The village is connected by GR-74. Throughout the town from the bridge and westward, the highway is narrow and has only one lane. GR-33 is about 50 km SW. It is located E of 62 km E of Olympia and 82 km E of Pyrgos, NW of Megalopoli and Dimitsana and W of Tripoli.
The village has a school, a church, a post office, and a square (plateia). The village is located on the valley which has a small creek to its south and the residential area covers the southern part of a mountain which its elevaion is about 1,100 m. Another mountain is located to the south, totaling four mountaintops. Forests are founded to the east while rocky terrains and some arable land and deforested parts cover most of the south, west and north of Lagkadia. It is known for its local weaving mill.
slopes of the mountain ranges which includes Mainalo. Another mountain range is founded in the west and another to the north along with the valley. Pine trees surround the eastern and the southern part of the village while much of the municipality are forested.
It used to had builders that made stone-built mansions to all of the peninsula with the exception of the Mani peninsula.
Until the 1960s, much of the village did not have electricity and until the 1980s, most of the houses were stone-built
Heavy rains plundered Fouskari near Lagkadia on February 13 of 2003 and a day later on February 14, some houses were damaged by torrential downpours.
Population history
From 1981 to 1991, the population lost 571 inhabitants lost 43.52% of the 1981 population.
Arcadia was home of the temples of Zeus and Hera, and was also the location of the Olympic Stadium, where the Olympic Games were held in Classical times.
Tsakonian Greek, still spoken on the coast of the modern prefecture of Arcadia, in the Classical period considered the southern Argolid coast immediately adjoining Arcadia, is a descendant of Doric Greek, and as such is an extraordinary and much noted example of a surviving regional dialect of Classical Greek.
Arcadia remained a rustic, secluded area, and its inhabitants became proverbial as primitive herdsmen leading simple pastoral unsophisticated yet happy lives, to the point that Arcadia may refer to some imaginary idyllic paradise, immortalized by Virgil's Eclogues, and later by Jacopo Sannazaro in his pastoral masterpiece, Arcadia (1504); see also Arcadia (paradise).
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