is a seaside settlement in the
Aktio-Vonitsa Municipality of the regional unit of
Aetolia-Acarnania
Aetolia-Acarnania ( el, Αιτωλοακαρνανία, ''Aitoloakarnanía'', ) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the geographic region of Central Greece and the administrative region of West Greece. A combination of the histor ...
,
Greece
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. It has a very small resident population as most house owners are from the nearby village of
Katouna, and use the area as their summer or seasonal residence, linked to the seasonal cultivation of olives, or earlier in the century of tobacco crops.
Loutraki has an anchorage on the
Amvrakikos Gulf and was also the site of a water mill in the past. It is mentioned by a few European travellers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Lord Byron
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mentions it under the name Utraikee (he must have misheard the name) and states that in 1809-1810 it was the site of a barracks and a customs house.
Loutraki is the site of an ancient
plane tree
''Platanus'' is a genus consisting of a small number of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere. They are the sole living members of the family Platanaceae.
All mature members of ''Platanus'' are tall, reaching in height. All except f ...
which contains a shrine to Agios Spyridon in its hollow.
References
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Populated places in Aetolia-Acarnania