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Sights
• 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.
• 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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