The Authentic Marathon Swim is reborn and returns, for the 3rd consecutive year, on July 1-3, 2022, at Artemision. Amateur and professional swimmers from Greece and abroad will have the opportunity to enjoy, with absolute safety, the historic sports event, at Pefki, Evia of the Municipality of Istiea - Edipsos.
A small jungle with hyenes, rhinos, giraffes, gazelles, antilopes, apes and also sabre toothed tigers that lived 7 million years ago in the mountainous region of Kerasia on north Evia are expected to be discovered by a team of scientists headed by professor of Paleontology Georgios Theodorou.
The fire in northern Evia island is under control. The small town of Limni is out of danger. Efforts now focus on the front near the St. Nicholas Monastery in the area of Galataki. 2 aircraft and 4 helicopters try to put out the blazes. In total more than 40 thousand stremmas of forest land have been burnt since Saturday.