Harmony Hotel Apartments

Longos Aigio, 25100 Aígion

GBP 72 - 136

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Only 100 metres from Longos Selianitika beach, Harmony Hotel Apartments offers a swimming pool with furnished sun terrace and fully furnished apartmen… More

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Aigio: Guide

Aigio (GR-8A from the south and west with one full and one partial interchange, and has a rest area and is also bounded. The location is around . Mountains neighbor the southern part. The town sits on arable land which covers over a quarter of the community. The mountains of the Panachaicus and Erymanthus are rarely seen. The commune was known as Vostitsa or Vostitza in the Middle Ages to the late 20th century.

Aigio has schools, lyceums, gymnasia, banks, post offices, squares (plateia|plateies), and dead trees. There are beautiful beaches only 5 to 10 minutes drive from the city centre.

The sites of interest includes a Mycenean House dating back to ancient times. The location is near the cliffs.

The Port of Aigion serves ferry service to Agios Nikolaos in the northeast. Ferry service is very small and only has a few boats. It is on a road off the old highway. The port is crossed by rail. East of the port is a railway station and some buildings. The city is bounded by a river in the east and west. It can be accessed by another highway for Temeni, Pteri, Greece|Pteri and Kalavryta on Greece Interstate 31|GR-31.

There are squares, one closer to the hospital and a circle shaped-square slightly from the city hall are in the SW with some bushes and a fountain and is located on the old highway. One of the squares (near to the bus station) is actually in the shape of a triangle, a source of some embarassment to those residents who consider the square something of a misnomer. The city has a hospital founded slightly west of the city and a rest area situated south of the city at GR-8A/E65. Residential houses are within and in the western part of Aigio.

Windmills are located in farmlands and groved SW of the community boundary. Hills are southwest of the city.

In 1995, an earthquake shattered Aigio. It devastated the southwestern subdivision destroying houses.

On February 2004|February 4, 2004, riots over demanding wage hikes for farmers took place in the 172nd km interchange or the Aigio interchange, a sign, a 172nd km post facing the westbound lanes, some bushes were damaged as they clashed with the police. Another one a day later took place near the olive grove and trapped some people. Supertrucks were blocking the superhighway.

On January 2005|January 28, 2005, tractors from the rural areas near Aigio were blocking streets so the farmers can demand better wages. It happened between noon and afternoon hours.

In July 2006 Albanian singer Hoxha, grandson of the notoriously paranoid communist dictator, played a concert at the "Stafidalonon Sports Cafe." It happened between 7pm and 11pm.

Nearest places

Myrtia (Achaia), Greece|Myrtia (west)
Temeni (east)

Communities

Historical population

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History

It was founded during Homeric times.

It was the capital of the Achaean League from 276 BC.

Aegium took the territory of Helike.

In the Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Age, it was renamed Vostitsa.

It was renamed after the Greek Independence. It was the first city to be liberated on March 26 during the Greek Revolution|revolution of 1821.

A mid-1995 earthquake rumbled and damaged buildings in downtown core with a few casualties.

Agricultural protests in February, 2004. It had blocked Greece Interstate 8A|GR-8A. The protests lasted several days, and blockades were created and closed main highways for two days. It was followed by rioting in the groves and rioting at a building in the night.

List of Greek language newspapers|Newspaper

Filodimos Newspaper

External links

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