PERASTIKO, Beach located in GEORGIOUPOLI
Perastikos beach lies eastwards from Georgioupolis village. The beach is a part of Almyros bay, and a part of a wider sandy shoreline that runs from Georgioupolis village to Petres gorge on the east.
The east part of Perastikos is a beach of fine sand, approx
The wider area of the beach has a rural character, with very interesting natural environment. In the sea there are Posidonia meadows, while on the beach various faces of sand dunes are recognized. It is very interesting in spring where the sand dunes are full of color from small annual beach flowers (like Silene, Medicago, etc.) and the sea daffodils are in bloom. In the rear of the sand dunes zone, besides the appealing hotel gardens that have local maritime-hardy species (like Tamarix trees) the visitor could see plants that dominate the transitional zone to rural cultivated land, like Pistacia and Myrtus species, reeds, etc.
Environmental activities that take place on the beach involve volunteers from the hotels and the children from the primary schools of the municipality and they focus in keeping the beach clean through the “Clean-Up Med” initiative.
The beach is accessible through the E-90 highway that runs northern
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