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Iraia (Greek: Ηραία) is a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it became a municipal unit of the municipality of Gortynia. The municipal unit has an area of 144.002 km 2. Its population is 960, according to the 2021 census. The seat of the municipality was in Paloumpa.
Loutra Iraias is a location of the old settlement of today's Thermal Springs, with the old name Kalyvia. The inhabitants of the village are mainly engaged in agriculture and beekeeping but also to a lesser extent in animal husbandry.
Loutra - thermal spas (Kalivia): Village known for its sulphur thermal spas (also referred to by Pausanias). With places to stay and eat. Together with Lotis, Agiannis and Pyrris, they compose the limits of Ancient Iraia.
Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War.
Costa-Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece) is a Greek-born naturalized French motion-picture director noted for films that have been both political arguments and entertainments (usually as mysteries or thrillers).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Birthplace: Loutra-Iraias, Greece. One of the most politically minded and passionate filmmakers of the late 20th century, Greek director Costa-Gavras assailed the forces of corruption,...
Costa-Gavras. Director: Z. Costa-Gavras was born on 12 February 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.
