Nea Skioni is a tourist-oriented village located in the peninsulas of Cassandreia

Cassandreia

Cassandrea, Cassandreia, or Cassandria was once one of the most important cities in Ancient Macedonia founded by and named after Cassander in 316 BC located on the site of the earlier Ancient Greek city of Potidaea...

 and Halkidiki (also a prefecture

Prefectures of Greece

During the first administrative division of independent Greece in 1833–1836 and then again from 1845 until their abolition with the Kallikratis reform in 2010, the prefectures were the country's main administrative unit...

) in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

. The population in 2001 was 889 for the village and 910 for the municipal district, the elevation is 10 m. Nea Skioni is located around 110 km SE of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...

. It is named for the ancient city of Scione

Scione

Scione was an ancient Greek city in Pallene, the westernmost headland of Chalcidice, on the southern coast east of the modern town of Nea Skioni....

, whose site was nearby to the east.

Nearest places

• Agia Paraskevi
• Chanioti
  Chanioti
  Chaniotis , is a tourist town located in the east of the peninsula of Kassandreia and Chalkidiki in Greece. The population in 2001 was 968, the elevation is 10 m. The population during the summer increases many times. Chanioti is located around 100 km SE of Thessaloniki. Forests dominate the...
  
  
• Pefkochori (east)

Information

Tourism dominates the community's industry and is supported by hotels, villas and a campground. On August 26, 2006, a forest fire ravaged Nea Skioni and devastated much of the forests and buildings in the outskirts of the area. Several houses and villas were burnt. Hydro was snapped out and roads were closed. All residents and tourists were evacuated.

Nea Skioni was linked with pavement in the mid-20th century, hydro and phone lines soon followed as well as more paved roads in the 1980s.

Population

Year	Village population	Municipal district population
1981	740	-
1991	786	-
2001	889	910

External links

• Nea Skioni on GTP Travel Pages (in English and Greek)
• Nea Skioni