harmonically with modern holiday houses Sithonia
Athos
and big hotel complexes, with every imag- Sithonia is the middle peninsula - "second
It is the third and most special penin-
inable facility. Kassandra is full of life. Its prong" - of Halkidiki. It extends between
sula of Halkidiki , also known as Agio
44 villages and settlements house more the Gulfs Toroneos and Siggitikos and
Oros ( Mount Athos ). The part of the
than 13.000 permanent residents and ends south at Cape Drepano . It is mostly
peninsula, where all visitors are
hundreds thousands of visitors in the sum- a mountainous region with beautiful
allowed, includes the Gulf Akanthios,
mer. forests. The coastline is full of little gulfs
from the border of Mount Athos and
with picturesque bays, capes, white, sandy
upwards, as well as the northern
It has wonderful hotels and other tourist beaches with wonderful turquoise, blue
coast, which is washed by the Gulf
centres, nightclubs and entertainment and green, shallow and warm waters, sur-
Strymonikos.Agio OrosFar away from
facilities to provide the visitors with every rounded by thick pines and shiny grey
the rest of Macedonia and the whole
comfort. It is a worldwide famous modern rocky formations. It is less developed than
world as well, there is a natural and
holiday resort. Most villages and settle- Kassandra and offers the visitors quieter
spiritual paradise with a special glory
ments are on the coastline, built on beau- vacation close to nature on some of the
and magnificence, namely the eastern
tiful beaches. Others, like Kassandria , are most exotic beaches in the whole Aegean
peninsula of Halkidiki , Mount Athos
in the mainland of the prong of Kassandra. Sea area The region is famous for the
(Agion Oros), the bay of ancient
Fresh fish is one of the famous delicacies magnificent honey it produces (Nikiti is the
Greeks or as monks put it, the " land
of our region. The visitor can enjoy this biggest honey producing centre in
of Virgin Mary ".
delicate gastronomic delight at picturesque Greece), but also for the oil, olives, fish,
Mount Athos consists of twenty
little taverns or modern restaurants. wine, grapes and cheese,
monasteries, several skites (her-
Furthermore, the oil, the olives, and the which are delicious and of the highest
mitages) and places of absolute tran-
honey are of the finest quality and the quality.
quility. This is the religious community
demand for them from all over Greece is
of Mount Athos , with historical
high. Our agricultural products, as well as
monasteries, cells in caves or between
the local Kassandra wines, specially the
the rocks, towers, domes, belfries,
wine from Mendi , are famous since the
chants, etc. Mount Athos is a big tem-
antique years.
ple under the sky; it is the main carri-
er of Orthodox Christianity.
Mount Athos covers an area of about
336 sq. kilometers, with 112 kilome-
ters of coastline and 1.550 inhabi-
tants; it is an imposing place in the
northern Aegean, surrounded by trees
and bluff cliffs. Its mountains are
2.033 meter high, extend to the sky
and approach the clouds. When the
atmosphere is clean you can see from
the little church of Metamorphosi
Sotiros (Transfiguration of Christ)
nearly half the Aegean; the bays of
Troy in the east and the mountain
Olympos in the west. Some of the
monks claim to be able to see the
dome of Agia Sofia springing like a
flower from the earth in the East.
Today in Mount Athos there are 20
monasteries and 12 skites.
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