Metochi (Greek, Modern: Μετόχι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Metochi, Metochion, is a village in the municipality of Larissos and the western part of the prefecture of Achaia. It is the seat of the municipality of Larissos and the town hall is in Lappa. It is located about 3 km S of Kalogria, about 260 km W of Athens, about 57 km WSW of the Rio-Antirio bridge, about 45 km W of Patras and about 65 km (old: 70 km) N of Pyrgos.
The population between 1981 and 1991 lost two thirds of the total 1981 population. In numbers and percentace, it was one of the villages that lost the most of its population in the prefecture.
Metochi has a school, a church, a post office and a square (plateia). A lagoon named Prokropios lagoon is near Metochi.
It is located near Kalogria Beach.
The beach is not far from Metochi where it overlooks the hills of Aetolia in the Aitoloacarnania prefecture, the islands of Oxeia and Echinades and the southern part of the Ionian Islands especially the island of Kefallinia in the west.
Forests especially some willow or eucalyptus trees are surrounding much of Metochi except for the east where the land is used for farming. The forests covers much of the community and extends to a nearby hill in the southwest between Loutra Yrminis and Old Vouprasi. Wetlands dominiate the areas within the beach. The name of the forest is Strofylia forest.
Metochi (Greek, Modern: Μετόχι, Ancient/Katharevousa: -on), older forms Metochi, Metochion, is a village in the municipality of Larissos and the western part of the prefecture of Achaia.
The beach is not far from Metochi where it overlooks the hills of Aetolia in the Aitoloacarnania prefecture, the islands of Oxeia and Echinades and the southern part of the Ionian Islands especially the island of Kefallinia in the west.
Strofylia Forest, a forest of especially some willow or eucalyptus trees, surrounds much of Metochi except for the east where the land is used for farming.
The area was later invaded by the Venetians in the late- 16th and the 17th centuries and later invaded by the Ottomans again.
Achaea today has about one-third of its peninsula's inhabitants and two-thirds of Achaia living in the Patra area which is the capital of Achaea and the Peloponnese, and more than half of the population live in the city (municipality).
Achaia has the most supermarkets in the Peloponnese and the western part of Greece.
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