Artemis

Artemida or Artemis (Greek: Αρτέμιδα, older name Loutsa, Greek: Λούτσα) is a suburban town in east Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Spata-Artemida, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies approximately 25 km east of Athens, S of Rafina, NE of the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, and N of Lavrio. The population was rural until the 1980s and the 1990s; the population became urban as suburban housing popped up around Artemida's coastline. Housing developments continue to this day and some are intermingled with farmlands or empty land. Artemida is situated on a plain, with mountains that are covered with forests to the northwest and another deforested rocky mountain to the...