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AFYTOS

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Afitos (Afitos, Afytis, Afitos) is a large settlement and seat of the homonymous municipal district in the Municipality of Kassandra, Chalkidiki.  The passage is expressed in both ways.  The first name ” Afitos ” is that the village was not heavily vegetated and the second name has been adopted over the years.  The settlement is traditional, with stone houses and cobbled streets.  It has 1,231 inhabitants based on the census of 2001. Its distance from Nea Fokaia is 2 km.  Among others there is a kindergarten and a Primary School.  The central church is that of St. Demetrios, in the village square, built in 1857. From the square one can see the bay of Kassandra.