Chalkis City

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Organization type
Public local/regional authority
Descrizione:
The extent of the new expanded Municipality of Chalkis is 424,370 acres with a popu-lation of 92,202 inhabitants (census 2001) and Chalkis is the capital city. Chalkis is 80 km away from Athens and 470 km from Thessaloniki by car. Chalkis is the capital of the prefecture of Evia and the main port of the prefecture of Evia region of Central Greece. Presents a large residential development and a road gate of the island with two bridges, the OLD BRIDGE (manufactured 1964) and the NEW BRIDGE (manufactured 1993) that connects the Boeotian coast with Evia's coast. Built at the closest point on the mainland Greece, is a transportation hub and adminis-trative, commercial, industrial (Cement plant Heracles, Avlis Shipyards, industrial chemical materials, woodworking SHELMAN, KA) and spiritual centre of Central Greece.The City Chalkideon supports the activation of important associations that promote cul-tural heritage, arts and sports education. Cultural centers: The Art Workshop Chalkis Hearth & Culture Knowledge Chalkis; The famous Red House Chalkis; The Central Public Library Chalkis. The economy of the Municipality of Chalkis based wineries and wine tourism, trade, fi-sheries, poultry farming. The vineyard produces wines Evia PGI Euboea (Evia Local Wine). Existed, but the wines PGI Ritsona Avlida (Local Wine Ritsona Avlida) and PGI Lilantio valley (Local Wine Lilantion Field) are numerous wineries in the area of the municipality and at Chalcis of most Mytikas, Sheets, Ritsona, Kalohori.