Events and festivals!!!

Halkidiki is a place where many cultural events take place all year round.
The most famous events are during the summer period and especially between July and August.

In the traditional village of Olympiada you have the chance to celebrate together with fishmen the clam festival at the beginning of July. Moreover, in the village of Nea Moudania, at the end of July is the sardine festival, with folklore events and lots of fun.

Some traditional events are the Prophet Helias celebration (20th of July). In many villages, like Ierissos, Vavdos, Polygyros and Petralona, are celebrating “ta kazania tou Ai-Ilia” (the caldrons of Prophet Helias) with free food and wine.
Another traditional event is on 26-27th of July (Agia Paraskevi – Panteleimonas celebration). Religious feast in Arnaia and folklore festival with several events, textile exhibition and other forms of folklore art. Traditional festivals in the church of Agia Paraskevi in Kassandra, in Agios Nikolaos, Galatista, Neos Marmaras (Partheniona), Nikiti, Nea Triglia, Kallithea and Kryopigi.

Also the last Sunday of July is taking place the cross swimming in Toronaios (24km) from Kallithea to Nikiti. Free swimming athletic event with great attention of swimmers. Also, folklore dance in the beach of Nikiti at night.

At last, we should not forget to mention the mushroom festival in September. It is in the mountainous Taxiarchi with the so-called mushroom pies, as well as the olive festival in Olynthos, the festival of Prophet Helias (20 July) and the great festival of Agios (Saint) Mamas every September, not to mention all the cultural events that take place in Afytos throughout summer.

The Train is back!

The train is back! I read with great pleasure that the old train connecting Volos with Milies (a well known village of Pelion Mountain) is ready to start operating again! The train is 106 years old and has been implemented by the engineer Evaristo De Kiriko, father of the famous painter Gorgio De Kiriko. The train was constantly operating till 1971. The train was used for transporting products from Volos to Pelion and vice verca. This year the train strats its trips from 11th of April and from 1991 is used only for touristic purposes. The trip is about 40 minutes and passegengers will view one of the most beautifull parts of Pelion.


The local name of the train is: Μουντζούρης meaning roughly in English "grease monkey".
For those of you loving technicalities, Mountzouris travels over rails of 60cms and is the only train of that sort in Greece. Mountzouris has its brother in Belgium where both trains work over the same sort of rails!

Some links that you could seek more information about Volos and Pelion are:

Contact Municipality: Contact Volos
where the main page is: Volos

Now if you are looking besides a pleasant summer in Pelion, also for a house in Greece note that we could help you to find your house in Greece!

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Summary

In this post we summarize some information about properties in Halkidiki and Pelion hosted by Properties in Greece. First of all we give an overview of the available houses in North Greece and later we point some information about the prices. Note that soon we will compare these properties with other properties provided by other real estate websites.

By the Properties in Greece there are 28 available houses for sale in North Greece. In more detail:

• 18 houses for sale in Halkidiki (Chalkidiki)
• 1 avalaible house for sale in Thessaloniki.
• 9 houses for sale in Pelion.

Regarding the prices, we have:

• 12 houses in Halkidiki range from € 100.000 up to € 300.000.
• 5 out of 9 houses in Pelion range from € 100.000 up to €300.000.

At this moment we collect information about more properties around the price of € 150.000 and we will update you soon.

I hope that the links above are giving you a better understanding of the avalaible houses and their prices.