page_title: Yerakini
section_title: Village
hierarchical_section_title: Yerakini / Economy / Village
caption_attribution_description: English: Village of Yerakini with the Trikorfo mountain in the left background and the sea on the right side, Chalkidiki, Central Macedonia, Greece, Jun 2014
context_page_description: Yerakini or Gerakini is a village in the Chalkidiki peninsula in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.
  It has been the port of nearby Polygyros, the capital town of Chalkidiki, ever since its settlement. Its beaches attract thousands of tourists and holidaymakers during the summer. It has the largest magnesite deposits in Northern Greece.
context_section_description: The middle part, the real village of Yerakini, has the church of patron saints Agioi Theodoroi (dedicated to two saints having the same name Theodoros). 
  	
  The annual feast day commemorating the saints is held on the first Saturday of Lent, the religious church service officiated by Metropolitan Nicodemus of Kassandreia, the people celebrating with a number of activities also at the seaside.
  	
  There has been a town plan for the area between the village and the seaside for many years, no streets can one see though.
  All land (fields, plains and slopes as well as the biggest part of the Trikorfo (three peaks) mountain in the east, 3.5 km away from Yerakini) is covered with olive-groves. The inhabitants are farmers principally growing olives for the table and their oil.
  There are several olive oil mills in the area (in Polygyros, Kalyves Polygyrou, Olynthos, Ormylia) and companies for green table olives preservation. Olives are harvested while green for table olives in September and, mainly for olive oil, when black in November and December. The language spoken is the Greek dialect of Chalkidiki, as spoken in its capital Polygyros. Yerakini has a soccer team, which plays against other teams of Chalkidiki. Although the village itself is not tourist-oriented, holidaymakers visit it especially for the Divine Liturgy (The Sunday Mass of the Orthodox) of the church and on saints' feast days.
caption: The village of Yerakini with the mountain Trikorfo on the left and the sea on the right
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