Nature has always been an unpredictable designer. This is more than apparent when entering Petralona Cave, formed around a million years ago. Nicknamed “the red-rock cave” because of the color that the bauxite deposits give to the stone, the cavern stretches across an area of 10,400m². Nowadays, it is the most important of Greece’s 12,000 caves, thanks to its wealth of fossils (one of the richest collections in Europe) and to the discovery, around half a century ago, of the oldest human remains ever found in Greece.

Kassandra peninsula has a variety of folklore museums where guests can discover the way the local habitants used to live. There are Folklore museums in Polychrono, in Kassandria, in Agia Paraskevi and in Afytos. However, there is also a very special museum: The Fisheries Museum. The Fisheries Museum established by the Municipality of Moudania is the only fisheries museum in Greece, a country in which fishing is an old tradition. The museum is located in Nea Moudania and both kids and adults shall consider it a beautiful and completely educational experience.

Or Mavrobara Lake. The lake shelters two rare species of water turtles in danger of extinction (Emys orbicularis and Mauremys caspica), which find refuge here. Small benches placed at the area, allow you to enjoy conveniently this land full of canes and nenuphars. It’s an easy three-kilometre walk, or you can rent mountain bikes and take a separate cycling path. Along both tracks, you pass through dense pine forestry and olive groves with 400-year-old trees.

After a day on the beach, when the heat slackens, it is a right time for walking around Afitos and exploring its beautiful places. First of all, you can visit a unique domed basilica — the church of Saint Demetrios. It is quite easy to be found: the church is located on the central square of the village. Once entered it, you feel as if you moved several centuries back. The church was built in the middle of the XIX century on the spot of a destroyed older temple. Here ancient icons are placed side by side with the masterpieces of Parali and Pavlis.

Afitos is a historical settlement with a 28-century history. Mentioned in the works of Aristotle and Herodotus, it was once so influential that it had its own coins. If you want to get acquainted with the past of this place and visit the Folklore Museum, which is located opposite the church in a traditional mansion dating back to 1889. It works only in summer, from 10 am to 1 pm. and from 7 pm to 11 pm The museum has two floors: on the first are presented various objects for agriculture, and on the second - the living rooms of the Greeks of that time. In the museum you can buy small souvenirs.