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Apart from the numerous beaches and the varied picturesque landscape changing from granite to pines and sea, also the fragrant pine forest will invite the visitor to take a stroll on the heights east of the old village, perhaps searching for fossil findings of mastodons, rhinoceruses and other extinct species. (which can be found by trained eyes)
Nikiti is divided into 2 parts, one being the old village extending to the hills with the old Makedonean architecture, the other part kown as new village, going down to the sea with all the tourist development. Here the village still grows with new shops and houses being constructed.

Architecture

The local architecture of Nikiti constitutes partly of Northern Hellenic architecture. The houses of old local builders are very impressive with their clear and beautyful constructions, the clever use of materials and the wisely operated structure of spaces. Interesting themes are for instance the various knockers ("krikeles" ) at the doors, or the fireplaces with their chimneys. This architecture survived the destruction of the village shortly after the Greek uprising against the turkish occupation in 1821. The positions of the houses within their neighbourhood were chosen according to the below listed laws of the ancient architect Hippodamos :

• safety by good view around the house
• suitable air for the energy and health of house
• suitable sun all the day for house
• easy access
• good link with neighbouring houses creating a morphologic unit

Additionally every house had it's own garden and storage place. Today some old houses exist at the old part of Nikiti and at the old market. During the las years "Nikiti fans" from Greece and different European countries have bought many abandoned houses and restore them carefully keeping the traditional fassade. Nowadays the traditional market takes place every Friday, in the roads near the central square and bus stop.

Old buildings and churches

For the fans of antique buildings, the following sights are worth a visit:

Archaeological sites and sights

For visitors who want to go further back in history they are also interesting archaeological sights to see:

For nature lovers

The virgin forest between Olympiada - Neochori (in north east Halkidiki). This forest is like forests of North Europe. In this area grow many medicinal herbs and aromatic plants (850 different plants have been specified , among which 238 are medicinal - aromatic). This forst is also home of many wild animals.

Have a referential audience with Itamos, the oldest tree of Greece, who lives on top of Dragoudeli mountain (Itamos mountain) and by the way is not an olive tree but a yew tree. He is more than 2000years old, though his age does not show at first sight. On the era of Alexander the Great, Itamos was a very young tree and surely you will feel very young after this visit...

Beaches in and around Nikiti

Below we listed and described 17 beaches in the district of Nikiti, between Metamorfossi in the North and short before Neos Marmaras in the South. On the main road blue signs will show the way to each beach. And many bus stops will allow you to go also without car.
Different than for instance in Spain the beaches of Greece are public.

If you would like to have extra information or want to reserve an accommodation
send e-mail to :
Christos Zafeiroudis & Ute Green
nikitireserv@yahoo.gr
or call us:
(0030) 6974 830 330 (Christos-mobile)
(0030) 6979 956051 (Ute-mobile)

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