The beach of the village, on its left side, is sandy. It has restaurants and bars.

⇠ Thessaloniki 118km ⇠ Polygyros 54km

The town was founded in 1922 by refugees from the island of Marmara in Asia Minor. Until then the land had been owned by the Grigoriou Monastery of Mt. Athos. The history and tradition of the local people are symbolized by the boat Santala, which led the fishing fleet in their original home. The Church of Agion Taxiarchon houses the icons the original refugees brought with them from Asia Minor. Today Neos Marmaras is the most cosmopolitan of all the villages and towns of Sithonia, with hotels and rented rooms, camping sites, bars, cafes, patisseries, tavernas, ouzo bars and pizza parlours, clubs, bouzouki halls, supermarkets, wine shops, travel agencies, banks, folk art shops, clothes shops, a go-cart course and a health center. Just along the coast is a community known as Paradisos, presenting a sandy beach, rented rooms and tavernas. Just two kilometers south of Neos Marmaras is the big Porto Carras hotel complex.

Sightseeing

• A replica of the boat “Santala” can be seen in the town harbour.
• The “Tripotamos metochi” next to the road west of Marmaras, a building complex belonging to the Kastamonitou Monastery, built in the 19th century.
• The “metochi” of the Monastery Gregoriou, on the eastern boundary of Neos Marmaras. The church of the Assumption was built in 1865.
• Kelyphos island, 2 nautical miles from the coast, is a steep, rocky waterless island covered with pine-trees and wild olive trees. In Roman times there was a small installation on the northeast side on the small bay, probably a military installation.
• Porto Carras Grand Resort is one of the biggest hotel complexes in Europe. In the 1960’s the shipowner John Carras bought 4.250 acres and organized a unique tourist complex with 4 hotels, a private marina, a big conference center, a thalassotherapy & spa center, horse riding facilities, golf courses, tennis courts, football, valleyball, basketball facilities and 8 kilometers of crystal, sandy beaches.

✓ can’t miss this!

•Visit the Porto Carras winery and taste the branded local wines.