Limenarya is the third biggest village, which is 4.5km away from Megalohori in the south part of the island. Mimanarya has 150 citizens, who live in traditional stone houses. In the village tavern you can try traditional Greek cuisine and the specialty dish is rooster with tomato sauce.

Agistri has few Eden beach coasts. The vivid Mareza port is 200m away from Limenarya. There, you can find a stone beach, which is surrounded by a pine-tree forest and the sea water is deep and clean. You can reach Mareza easily by car on an asphalt road.

The history of the island starts from Ancient Greece but there is very little information about it today. We know, that Agistri, the neighboring island of Aegina and the rest small islands have formed the Aegina Kingdom of the mythical King Eax. According to Homer, the name of Agistri was Kekrifalea, which means “decorated head” and it was an ally of Aegina in the Trojan war. Throughout the whole western coast of the island, one can find many antiques lying on the sea bed. Some of them have been taken out and displayed in the Spiritual Center in Megalohori. The findings show that there were settlers on the island ever since 5 BC, who have come from the neighboring Peloponnese. There isn’t much information about the island, left from historians. It is known that during the 17^th century, its citizens have left, because pirates were constantly attacking and stealing their means of living.

In 1821 few dozens of people went to the island and decided to settle down. According to data from 1835, the number of people living on the island was 248 and in 1940 the population starts to grow and today it is about 1000 people. Up until 1960 to connection between Agistri and Athens was done by kayaks and since then by ferries from Pieria port. Electricity comes to the island in 1973. One interesting detail from its contemporary history is that in 2002, the leader of the terrorist organization “November 17^th” Dimitris Koufodinas was hiding on one of Agistri’s beaches.

To Agistri you can get with a ferry or with a flying “dolphin,” which leaves the port of Pieria. The difference is that for the ferry you will pay ?10 and you will be on the island after one hour and 45 minutes and with the dolphin, you will pay ?14 for a one way ticket and you will be there in an hour. Before arriving in Agistri, the ferry stops in Aegina Island. Agistri has two ports – one in Skala and one in Magalohori. Even though they are two separate villages, you can walk from one to the other in 40 minutes.

Agistri’s charm is in its natural and wold beauty, which does not scare you but quite the opposite – it relaxes.

Marina Nikolova

Useful information:

Tourist information – Diana Logoteti         22970 – 91255

Pieria port                                             210 4147800