Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek religion and mythology. His numerous functions include light, healing, prophecy, music, poetry, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros or ephebe, a beardless, athletic youth.
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Worth seeing in and around Apollo
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church
St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church is a historic Catholic church located at 311 Franklin Avenue in Vandergrift, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Greensburg.
2.4 km · church building in Pennsylvania, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Apollo
- Airports
- Pittsburgh (PIT), 57 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 213 km · Washington Dulles (IAD), 256 km
- Pittsburgh → Apollo40 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · $4–6
- Cleveland → Apollo206 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · $20–27
- Dulles → Apollo255 km · quickest by road, 6h · $30–41
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Apollo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Apollo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Apollo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Apollo
Apollo is 40 km from Pittsburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- North Apolloborough of Pennsylvania1.5 km
- East Vandergriftborough of Pennsylvania1.9 km