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MACEDONIA: POLYGYROS - Chalkidiki Prefecture

CENTRAL MACEDONIA
  CHALKIDIKI-POLYGYROS
  MOUNT ATHOS
  IMATHIA - VERIA
  THESSALONIKI
  KILKIS
  PELLA - EDESSA
  PIERIA - KATERINI
  
EAST MACEDONIA
  DRAMA
  KAVALA
  SERRES
  THASSOS

WEST MACEDONIA
  FLORINA
  GREVENA
  KASTORIA
  KOZANI

Sights

Chalkidiki - Petralona cave• The Holy Mountain Athos

• The ancient Stagira, birth-town of Aristotle in Olympiada

• the archaeological site of Olynthos

• in Ierissos the archaeological site of Akanthos

• Olympiada a picturesque village

• Nea Roda, the narrowest point between Athos and the rest of Chalkidiki. This is the place where the Persian king Xerxis made a canal in 480 B.C. in his effort to invade Greece.

• The villages Gomati and Megali Panagia in a route of fantastic landscapes.

• The early Christian basilica churches in Nikiti, Agios Georgios and Elia beach.

Chalkidiki• The Medieval walls in Potidaia.

• Ruins of the sanctum of Ammonas Zeus in Kallithea.

• The cave of Petralona with stalagmites and stalactites. In the cave was discovered a petrified skull of a man aged 700.000 old.

• in Poseidi, the ancienter sanctum of Neptune.

• the Museum in Polygyros.

• the Byzantine castles in Oyranoupoli, Sani, Nea Fokaia and Toroni.

• the canal of Potidea.

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Chalkidiki Prefecture