Kriaritsi Project

Fine place!

Crazy town. ??

Great place for longboard skateboarding in the area. It might get really hot in the summer.

Be careful not to get lost, but in 21st century with maps and GPS only fool can get lost :)

In the 1980is it was "built". Named Kriaritsi or Agios Pavlos. New forest land laws in the 1980is meant that if there was forest land you could effectively not build housing! And that place was deemed as forest land as was much of Halkidikis forests. Two "random" forest fires in the 80is made the land possible for housing and with that the alleged military personell housing project took off. But arguments with landlords and construction agencies left the land completely abandoned in a ecological disaster and now you can find roads leading to nowhere, streetlights, bridges, a sewege plant and even abandoned construction vehicles and other such tools! Nowadays different companies want to sell land in a project now known as the Kriaritsi Project which in vidoes and in the website is deemed a wonderful example of modern architecture, forgetting about the dark past....

Absolutely worth seeing - not the ghost city, which is only the name for many nameless roads which give you the impression that they we're built with no sense whatsoever - but for the beaches and landscapes you will see when you conquer the roads. Must-see

The mind gets stalled when trying to find any reason for laying that much asphalt and concrete roads, complete with sewers, in this rocky wilderness. There are no signs of any construction activity, besides the crazy roads and some electricity distribution boxes. Road to nowhere sums it up for me. My best guess is either a failed holiday village scheme, and/or EU money spent very, very unwisely. Still, interesting to see. Bring a GPS. Do not try to guess the roads' direction or quality from their looks, many dead ends and abrupt inclination and direction changes.

Labyrinth of streets. Many unmapped in navigation systems. Difficult to find exit. Insecure bridges. Streets with holes. Easy to get lost. We had a flat tire. Car service did not find us.