Chalkidiki

The renowned international travel network Lonely Planet highlights in a recent article 10 alternative experiences that visitors of northern Greece and especially the Halkidiki area can enjoy.

There was once a stone mermaid at Kavourotrypes (meaning “Crab Holes”) at Sithonia, Halkidiki. Dionysios Karypidis sculpted it in 1997 and it gave the area an added edge of uniqueness. Until suddenly, last summer he showed up and destroyed his work. Was this the act of a mad artist? No, there was a reason for this destruction.

GR Engineering Services has won a $7 million contract in Greece to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services to Hellas Gold, a subsidiary of the Eldorado Gold Corporation.

Halkidiki stood out at this year’s World Tourism Expo – World Heritage Cities and Sites, which was held in Padova last month and received a special award for its prominent son, philosopher Aristotle.

Hellas Gold CEO Mihalis Theodorakopoulos told a Thessaloniki-area radio station on Wednesday that his company was “ready for dialogue” if the government elected on Sept. 20 wants to renegotiate the gold mining projects at the Skouries site in eastern Halkidiki prefecture.

The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki continues its specials on different photography  genres, this time with an exhibition of beautiful images from Mount Athos, known as the ‘Holy Mountain’, in Chalkidiki, Macedonia.

Greece is not only a summer destination and this is confirmed by thousands of tourists who prefer Greece to spend their holidays during September.

According to booking website Trivago, most of the tourists who choose Greece for their autumn holidays come from Italy, Germany and UK.

Among their best holiday destination is Santorini followed by Chania and Athens.

The workers of ‘Hellas Gold’, the subsidiary of Canadian gold mining company ‘Eldorado’, decided after a long union meeting to take action in protest against the Greek government’s decision to shut down the mining operations at Skouries, Chalkidiki, in northern Greece.

Eldorado Gold, has released a statement regarding the decision by Greek Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment & Energy confirming that Hellas Gold S.A. – a Greek subsidiary of the Canadian Company – has been made aware of the Greek Minister’s notification suspending the technical studies pertaining to the Skouries and Olympias projects in Halkidiki, northern Greece.

Without the appearance of her face, the body of the bikini-clad woman on the beach could easily pass for one of the many well-shaped supermodels choosing to vacation on Mykonos, Ibiza or St. Tropez.