Langadas

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Langadas is known for its thermal baths since the Byzantine era. It is the famous Baths town that was built in 900 AD and is still in operation today. The spa town provides hydrotherapy, swimming pool and total body care services. The water quality is excellent for both bathing and drinking. Over the years hoteliers

May is a month of great celebrations in Langadas. Great celebrations of the Orthodox Church and celebrations in memory of the victims of the Pontic Greeks Genocide take place with great pomp in this region full of refugee Greeks. The Hellenic Parliament in February 1994 unanimously voted to designate May 19 as the Day of

Every year on the feast of Saints Constantine and Helen, the town revives the custom of the firewalking (in greek Anastenaria). According to tradition, when a fire once broke out in the church of Saints Constantine and Helen, the villagers, defying the danger, entered the church to save the sacred icons, with the help of

The settlement of Avgi was founded by families of refugees from Pontos. Every year on the first Friday weekend after the 15th of August, the “Synapantema Avgiotes and Friends” (Meeting of Avgiotes & Friends) is organized with great success. The bond between the inhabitants and the contact they insist on keeping with their long history

The village of Analipsi has a real population of 633 inhabitants. It is just 13 minutes from Lagada and borders the villages of Drakonteio and Evangelismos, while it is a short distance from Lake Koroneia. The gorge is a very easy route next to the water and with an altitude difference of 200 meters. There

Immediately after the Local Community of Kolchiko, just 12 minutes from Langadas, we find the village of Drakontio. The village has a shooting range, one of the best and best equipped shooting ranges in the country. Hunting training seminars for young and old hunters are organized by the Hunting Club of Ampelokipoi in Thessaloniki.

The village of Chrissavgi was built after the exchange of populations in 1922 by Asia Minor, Thracians and Pontians and its original name was “Sariyar” (Golden Rock). It is said that the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born and lived his early years in the old village, which was 5 km

Just outside the city of Thessaloniki in Lagina, in the area of Derveni, is the Holy Pilgrimage of Apostle Paul and Saints Cyril and Methodius. The Holy Step of Apostle Paul in Derveni, reminds the passage of the point, following the Egnatia Odos, after previously passed by Apollonia and earlier by Amphipolis and Philippi. On