Sarti is a large settlement on the edge of the peninsula of Sithonia in the prefecture of Chalkidiki. Surrounded by the lush mountain Ddrageteli and owes its name to the homonymous ancient city, which probably was in the same place. Every year on the 15th of August, the village celebrates (in the sanctuary of the Virgin Mary) and fireworks are thrown at the beach.
Sarti is a refugee village. Probably in its place was the ancient homonymous city, a member of the Athenian Alliance, which Herodotus mentions as a part of Xerxes. It is not known when and why it was destroyed. In the 14th century it was referred to as a male (Sartis) and was the property of the Xeropotamos Monastery, with the temple being built in 1867. Residents from the small island of Afissia in the Sea of Marmara settled in the village after the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922. Its original name was Nea Abessia. Some of the houses of the refugees that they built when they first came to the village are still preserved.
The Agapasilitiko metochi of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamos “Hidro Scholeio” is located west of Sarti and next to the church of Zoodochos springs. In Platanitsi, where community campsite is located, there was another subordinate of the Holy Monastery of Xeropotamos. The water mills above Platanitsi belonged to the metochi and today only the ruins are saved, and around them are plane trees and pine trees.
Today, Sarti is a tourist village combining mountain and sea, has beautiful beaches with green-blue waters and white sandy beaches (Orange, Platanitsi, Achlada, Sartaka beach). Every year many tourists visit this resort and enjoy the sun and the sea.
