Kalandra

LocationKalandra

Kalandra is a traditional settlement and seat of the homonymous local community of the municipality of Kassandra. Its location is southwest of the town of Kassandra on the west coast of the homonymous peninsula. Its population numbers 674 permanent residents and most of them are engaged in agriculture (olives, cotton, corn), beekeeping, and tourism is also a major source of income. Products of the region are oil, honey, cereals, cotton, corn. The seaside of Kalandra, Posidi, is well developed, with many hospitable accommodation, taverns and café-bars by the sea.

The consolidation of her settlement is believed to have taken place in the last Byzantine years or during the Ottoman domination. It is inextricably linked to the existence of Mendes. Indeed, he kept the names of the Mendaean country, such as that of his beach still called Poseidon, the Ionian expression of Poseidon. Throughout the Ottoman domination, it was one of the twelve villages on the peninsula, and it was Gausaners Aga’s pledge. The inhabitants of Kalandra participated in the revolution of 1821. A great fighter of the revolution of 1821 was Kyparissis Georgakis and Christodoulos Xanthopoulos. In Kalandra there are parts of the ancient wall of Mendes. Sightseeing of Kalandra is the temple of Poseidon (4 km west of the settlement) and near it a beacon of 1864.

A thousand kilometers west of the village, in a beautiful location overlooking the plain, there is the church of Panagia. Today it is the only church in Chalkidiki that remained intact since the Revolution of 1821 and preserves its entire interior decoration (frescoes) dating back to 1619. The big church of Kalandra, the “Assumption of the Virgin Mary”, was built in 1900 and is of particular architectural interest. It is royal style and celebrates on August 15th. A great feast in honor of the Virgin Mary takes place on August 23rd.