Last Saturday dozens of residents & fishermen blocked the port of Ouranoupolis, gateway to Mount Athos on the peninsula of Halkidiki, to protest government plans to restrict activity in the European Union-protected zone.
Protesters lined up 30 boats along the dock to obstruct vessels taking monks to and from Mount Athos, complaining that the planned measures […]
Some figures (2006):
Halkidiki has a capacity of 515 hotels or similar establishments and the number of beds is 44.417.
In addition, Halkidiki has 49 campsites with a total capacity of 15.465 beds/places.
In total Halkidiki has a capacity of 59.882 beds/places.
Source: General Secretariat of National Statistical Service of Greece
At Sunday September 2, heavy rainfall and hail caused flooding in the south of the Kassandra peninsula. The area of Siviri and Nea Skioni were hit the worst by the floods. Trees, vehicles, houses and roads were damaged by the floods.
According to fire brigade officer Giorgos Minos the burnt forests contributed to the floods, which […]
The prefecture of Halkidiki is found in a state of emergency as a direct result of the forest fires that are raging in southern Greece since 24th of August.
The forestal regions of the prefecture are continuously monitored by the Rescue Teams with the collaboration of volunteer residents and hunters.
2006 was an ideal year for local tourism. More than 1.150.000 tourist visited Halkidiki, showing a rising tendency of 10%. There has been an overall rising tendency in all fields: the number of German as well as the English, the Czech and the Hungarian arrivals show a rise of 5,5%, while the number of Russian […]
The torrential rain in northern Greece has caused floods, landslides and damage in cultivations.
Strong storms and winds hit Thessaloniki, Halkidiki and Pieria last night. As a result, a camping in Leptokaria, Pieria hosting children with special needs was evacuated for precautionary reasons. In parallel, the Fire Brigade in Thessaloniki has received 35 calls from civilians […]
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Halkidiki is the peninsula with the characteristic of three ‘fingers’ (named as legs by Greeks) as appears on the map of Greece. The three fingers, the peninsulas Kassandra, Sithonia and Mount Athos, differ from each other in many ways.
Kassandra is the most crowded and […]