- Porto Carras
Porto Carras (Greek:"Πόρτο Καρράς"), known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, is one of northern Greece's largest and most famous hotels and holiday resorts. It is located in
Sithonia ,Halkidiki peninsula in northernGreece . It is in a distance of about 120 km away from Greece's second biggest city,Thessaloniki . Porto Carras was created byYiannis Carras a Greek businessman and ship-owner. The construction works started in 1973 and, since then, brought a revolution in Halkidiki'stourism . Porto Carras Grand Resort includes two major hotels, the 5-star Meliton and Sithonia as well as Village Inn which is a bungalow-style residence. There are also 45,000 olive trees;basketball , football,tennis andgolf sports areas as well as avineyard covering an area of 475,000 m².Porto Carras is home to the biggest privateMarina in northern Greece and one of the largest in South EasternEurope as well as Thalassotherapy and Spa Center. It also contains restaurants, interior and beach bars and an estival Cinema theatre. The current owner of Porto Carras is theAthens -based company "Olympiaki Techniki AE".The resort of Porto Carras is near the traditional village of
Neos Marmaras ; a tourist, busy on summer period town, with lots of restaurants, cafeterias and tourist shops.European Union Summit (2003)
During June 2003, Porto Carras was the place of the
Thessaloniki European Union Summit; organized under the Greek Presidency, during which the draftConstitution of the E.U. was presented for first time. The 25 leaders of European Union, along withTurkey 's Prime Minister and the heads ofNATO andE.U. took part in an official dinner, hosted by the thenPresident of the Hellenic Republic .External links
* [http://www.portocarras.com/ Porto Carras Grand Resort - Official Website]
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