Greece: Travel Guide: Central Greece: Viotia

Greece: Central Greece: Viotia

Boeotia (Greek: Βοιωτία; -Voiotía, also Viotía) is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is within the Central Greece periphery. Its area was known in ancient times as Boeotia. Its capital is Livadeia and the second largest city is Thebes. It has access to the island of Euboea via two bridges, one that runs through Chalkida and one bypasses it with another road via Athens. Its bounding prefectures are Phocis in the west, Phthiotis in the north and northwest, Euboea in the east via a bay and a gulf and Attica in the south.

It has two lakes located northeast, one in 2002 revealed a lost village.

Its geography includes part of the Parnitha ranges in the southwest with a huge mining area, one of the largest in the southeast and mountains in the south including Helicon and more cover the west including mount Parnassus where the prefecture's only skiing resort is located and more in the north with a few forests and hills in the east. Its longest river, the Cephissus valley is in the central part is where most of the low-lying areas of Boeotia lie. Two lakes are in the northeast and was considered a wetland.