Kokkinos Pyrgos

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Kokkinos Pyrgos
Κόκκινος Πύργος
Kokkinos Pyrgos (Greece)
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Basic data
Country GreeceGreece Greece
region Crete
Regional district Heraklion
local community Festos
Geographic coordinates 35 ° 5 '  N , 24 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 35 ° 5 '  N , 24 ° 44'  E
Height above d. M. 0  m
Residents 426 (2011)
LAU-1 code no. 91250102

Kokkinos Pyrgos ( Greek Κόκκινος Πύργος ( m. Sg. ) 'Red Tower') is a port in the south of the Greek island of Crete . As part of the town of Tymbaki, it belongs to the municipality of Tymbaki in the municipality of Festos . The name of the place goes back to a red mud tower, of which nothing is known.

tourism

Port of Kokkinos Pyrgos, in the background the Psiloritis Mountains.

In Kokkinos Pyrgos, mass tourism has not yet arrived and there are only a few smaller hotels. The kilometer-long sand-gravel beach of Katalyki ( Greek Καταλυκή , end ') stretches south of the port , but due to the fencing of the Tymbaki military airfield, it can only be used as a bathing beach for about one kilometer. In summer Kokkinos Pyrgos offers boat trips to the Paximadia Islands .

From June to September, loggerhead turtles use the Katalyki beach to lay their eggs. During this time, volunteers from the Archelon organization look after the nests, mark and fence them in, trying to reconcile tourism and nature conservation.

In 2005, the planning of a large container port a few kilometers north of Kokkinos Pyrgos began. There were protests by the population and in January 2009 it was finally announced that there would be no container port.

Web links

Commons : Kokkinos Pyrgos  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the 2011 census at the National Statistical Service of Greece (ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ) ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Excel document, 2.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Tower Priotissa and the Red Tower at cretanbeaches.com
  3. ↑ Eberhard Fohrer, Kreta , 18th edition, 2009, Michael Müller Verlag, Erlangen, ISBN 978-3-89953-453-5 , pp. 374-375
  4. ^ Archelon, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece
  5. ↑ www.kein-containerhafen-in-timbaki.com
  6. ↑ ns.no-container-port-in-timbaki.net ( memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ns.no-container-port-in-timbaki.net