Golden Beach is also known by the local population now as Skala
Panagia, as it is developing into a beautiful beach side community.
It is, as the name quite literally suggests, a beautiful stretch
of golden sand. It is the northern end of a two kilometres stretch
of beach, which shelves gently into the sea. The beach has been
awarded a blue flag for the cleanliness both of the beach, the
environment and the water. This beach is renowned throughout Greece
as being one of the most beautiful in the whole of the Mediterranean.
It nestles into the bay, which is backed by the steep granite
slopes of the mountainside and at both ends of one's view; the
green trees seemed to tumble into the water.
It offers a wide variety of bars, restaurants, snack bars, some
with quite literally, international reputations, and several supermarkets
- many of whom will deliver to your accommodation - as well as
car, motorbike and bicycle hire. From May to October, it is served
by the round island bus, and is only a 12 minute car or taxi ride
from the main town.
It is a resort to which visitors return again and again, many
of them having made lifelong friends with the local people,
a
resort where you can rest completely and can with your elderly
parent or your young children, secure in the knowledge that
there
will be safe and happy with all the beautiful facilities that
a beach side resort makes available.
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