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The Évripos Bridge
illuminated at night, with
Halkída in the background

1 INSIDER TIP
HALKÍDA Dodging
the Crowds
Halkída – especially its
ΧΑΛΚΊΔΑ It is a good idea to avoid
seafood restaurants –
at weekends, when
g v Athinón @ Styrón 1, at a roundabout in the eastern they get crammed with
part of town n dimoschalkideon.gr
escapees from Athens. 0 metres 200 N Apanemo
The largest city on Évvia, modern Halkída is a thriving 1.5 km (1 mile)
commercial port only a short distance from Athens. 0 yards 200 IFIGENI A S
There are two areas of town particularly worth a visit: bridge, narrow streets reveal P ERIKLEOUS STAVROU
the waterfront and the kástro quarter. a fascinating archi tectural TSIRIGOTI MICHAIL KAKARA
history. Many houses still bear Pl. Agiou
the traces of their Venetian Vorios Evoikos VOUDOU RI FARMAKIDOU Nikolaou TSIRIGOTI
Kolpos
1 the bridge looms Karababa and Ottoman ancestry, with LIKOFRONOS
timbered façades or marble
Castle, built by the Ottomans
The Waterfront in 1684, and offering the best heraldic carving. Now inhabited KARAMOURTZ OUN I AVANTON ANTONIOU
A bridge has spanned the views of town. partly by Thracian Muslims who SALONIKIOU VIRO NOS
narrowest point of the fast- settled here during the 1980s, ARCHIEPISKOPOU MAKARIOU The Waterfront
flowing Évripos channel since Karababa Castle and by the surviving members MPALALEON
the 6th century BC, and con- § 22210 22402 # 8am–3pm of the oldest Jewish community VOUDOURI KRIEZOTOU
nects Évvia to the mainland. Tue–Sun in Greece, the kástro also has a DO U NA EL. VENIZELOU Arethousa
IOANNIDOU
According to legend, the range of religious buildings, EVRIPOU Halkida AGG ELI GOV IOU V ARATASI ISAIOU Archeological
Bridge
philosopher Aristotle was so including the 19th-century TRAPEZOUNTIOU FILONOS Museum
frustrated at his inability to 2 synagogue at Kótsou 27; the KRITZALI N. NEOFITOU
understand the constantly beautiful late 15th-century L IA SK A Platia DIM. VASILIOU F A VIEROU
reversing current that he Kástro Quarter Emir Zade mosque on Platía Athanaton
even tually threw himself into In the medieval kástro quarter, Pesónton Oplitón; and the Notios Emir Zade KOTSOU EL. VENIZELOU
Mosque
the water and drowned. southeast of the Évripos church of Agía Paraskeví. Evoikos
Kolpos
Kástro
The current swing bridge is STAMATI MAVROMICHALI VARATASI Quarter VELISSARIOU
the focus of Halkída’s water- P. ERIZOU FRIZI FAVIEROU
front; in service since 1962, it On the mainland side of the bridge looms LIASKA TZAVARA
opens regularly to let ships Karababa Castle, built by the Ottomans KALOGEROPOULOU PAN. KOTSOPOULOU
pass. The waterfront is lined Agía PAPASKIADA SIOKOU
Folklore
with hotels, restaurants and in 1684 to defend against the Venetians, Paraskeví Museum
cafés. On the mainland side of and offering the best views of town. SKALKOTA
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