the second largest island of Greece is separated from the continent from the narrow strait of Euripus.
with a fierce, mountainous column and roads that often degrade into the ground tracks on the coast, Evia is not yet accustomed to tourism.
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Best period
By far the hottest months are: July, August, June in Evia.The range of temperatures is: 29 ℃ – 32 ℃.July is usually the hottest months with an average temperature of 32 ℃.
The weather is good throughout the year in Evia
Tourist Attractions
In Prokopi, an hour north of Halkida, there is a church with a true status in oriental Orthodox Christianity, because it houses the relics of Saint John the Russian.His fame comes from a refusal to convert to Islam, and his relics were brought into Evia by the immigrants from Anatolia who were forced to move to Greece after the Greek-Turkish war since the early 1920s.Long -term diseases. It is May 27, when people come to Prokopi on foot from the surrounding villages and you can see traditional music and dance shows specific to North Evia.
In the northern Evia, at an altitude of 620 meters there is a waterfall in a mountain landscape that raises the heart.the rocky river from the back and at the clear emerald pool below.
Even over the Halkida Strait there is a fortnate fortress in 1684 to defend the city of Venetians.And if you wonder why the architecture is European, the fortress was designed by a Venetian, Gerolimo Galopo, and then was supported during a failed siege by the Venetians in 1688. In front of Halkida there is a hexagonal bastion armed with two Russian cannons from the 19th century.century. In the vaults of the fortress there is also a lapidarium, with fragments of ancient buildings, Venetian ornamental sculptures and renders of St. Mark.
After discovering the Dragon's house on Mount Oche, you can embark on the hiking of life on an old shepherd path through this gorge.Lenoseoi, while the land varies from a gentle valley to a rocky and fast cascading.Egee.
About 20 kilometers along the south-east straits of Halkida are the ruins of the ancient polis of Eretria.Erestria was declining after she was robbed in the first Mithrida war against Rome. The nitment has two palaces, four temples, bathrooms, a gym and a house with mosaics. But the show is the theater, one of the ancient Greece, dating from the 5th century BC.What is so special about this monument is that it has been placed on an artificial hill supported by support walls, much more a span than if they had simply used the slopes of the city of Eretrie.
Spread around the styra, in southern Evia, there are about 25 megalithic structures, all crouched on hills and mountains.rectangular framed by massive plates in buiandrugi and pillars.During the archaic period, which suggests the great age of Dragon's houses.
Directly on the Edipsos Strait is a thermal source that was mentioned by both Aristotle and Plutarch. N n n n n n n, in 1897, the luxury center Thermae Sylla Spa was built at Izvor, and at the time it attracted famous figures such as Aristotel Onassis, Winston Churchill and Omar Sharif.to experience the waters rich in minerals. In this is the pretending to calm the muscular and bone problems, as well as the endocrine system due to their level of traces of radon.therapeutic
Only four kilometers from the Drimona Waterfall is a monastery established in 1540 by Saint David in Evia.rebuilt in 1877. For those who were not pilgrims, the location of the monastery is half the magic, because it is placed under Xiron Oros and the tips of Kavalaris. n nsf.David is a functional monastery, and if you take the trip in winter, you will receive a warm reception from the monks with Loukoum (Greek Turkish crime) and tea or coffee.
Erestria is important enough that many of its discovered ceramics and statues are now exhibited at the National Archeology Museum in Athens or Louvre.And found in a tomb in the village of Lefkandi.of the appreciated Athenian sculptor Antenor.
If you like your beaches to be wild and open to the weather, Chiliadou is the right one for you. N n n n is easy, because it takes more than an hour from Halkida, but for the last third the serpentine road is weaved through a sublime mountain landscape, passing by the tip of 1,742.Otherwise the scary of the rocky rocks. In the largest of these beaches is Chiliadou, before only for the naturalists, because it is so distant, but now visited by all.Suddenly.
Tourists will travel all the way from Athens, 120 kilometers away, for this beach on the East Coast of Evia.Locked with tents, because many visitors are camping overnight or for whole weekends, rather than making the long way back on the same day.
Of all the distant beaches on Evia, Thapsa Beach can be the most demanding to reach. In the need needed a 4 × 4 vehicle to browse the 10 kilometers of land in the village of Koutorla.The chance to see this charming beach with your own eyes. In a brain of vertigin hills, Thapsa beach is a white and gravel sand bay, light blue, usually described as a "blue lagoon".The campsite is allowed on the beach if you want to spend the night somewhere outside the world, but it is certainly just a matter of time to reach the true tourism at Thapsa.
The channel that separates Evia from Beotia from continental Greece is the scene of a strange natural phenomenon. Unlike the rest of the East Mediterranean, the Euripus Strait has strong currents, which flow up to 12 kilometers per hour.This flow is reversed, whirlwinds are formed.
Evia has a high reputation for his wine, which is produced around the island, but especially on the semi -fine Lilantio plain outside Halkida.Convenient between the ten visible wineries in Evia is Avantis, winning several prizes, in the village of Mytikas.From the beginning of the twentieth century, which has a grape task of the 1930s. In near the usual tour and tasting session, you can taste the cosmetic product line, made from grapes.
