Asprovalta

Asprovalta is a small town of about 3,000 inhabitants in Greece. Asprovalta and the neighboring village Nea Vrasna are popular places at the seaside in Macedonia between Thessaloniki and Kavala, with beautiful beaches. On summer weekends, the place fills with bathers from Thessaloniki and Bulgaria.

Understand
Besides Kassandra, the area of Asprovalta is one of the main summer retreats of the people of Thessaloniki. The season goes from May to the end of September, after which the place falls into 'winter dormancy'

Get in
The nearest airport is Thessaloniki (100 km away) and Kavala (110 km away). For there take a long-distance bus which operate between Thessaloniki and Kavala, Xanthi, Komotini, Alexandroupolis. The village is located on the highway and the main road from Thessaloniki towards Turkey. The best anchorage for sailing boats is in the small harbour of Stavros about 8 km south of Asprovalta

Get around
Asprovalta is small and flat so you can easily walk or bike everywhere. For trips in the area a car is essential. Car hire is available on site.

See




Do
The huge beach is the main attraction of Asprovalta and the surrounding places

Buy
Shops for tourist needs are available in large numbers between the main street and beach promenade, as well as small supermarkets, bakeries, pharmacies. Large supermarkets are located about 1 km along the main road to Thessaloniki (e.g. Lidl).

Eat
Along the pedestrian precinct on the promenade there are several nice and quiet restaurants with sea views, which are hardly different in terms of price, quality and food. Fast food and big supermarkets can be found more along the main street

Drink
Asprovalta and Nea Vrasna are rather quiet resorts and no party centers. Precisely for this reason, especially families with children and older travelers come. Nevertheless, there is plenty of entertainment in the many restaurants, cafes, bars and beach parties in the beach bars. If you like to dance and go out late, the Roxy Club between Asprovalta and Nea Vrasna is recommended. The parties start after midnight and end at dawn.

Sleep
A very large number of hotels, apartments, rooms are offered and rated in the popular hotel browsers. Since the place is flat, you can easily reach the beach from anywhere. The same applies to the neighboring villages like Nea Vrasna

Connect
Most cafes, restaurants, hotels and also private rooms and apartments have WiFi for free. If you want to be mobile online buy a sim card from a Greek provider, e.g. Cosmote. They have good offers for mobile internet. A good shop for sim cards is called Germanos in Stravros in the main street.

Go next

 * Kavala: One of the most beautiful cities in Greece and definitely worth a visit as well as the neighbouring archaeological site Philippi and the Island Thasos
 * Pangaion Hills: Mountain area of almost 2000 m altitude with well-known monasteries and mountain villages and the famous archaeological site Amphipolis
 * Chalkidiki: one of the main tourist areas of Greece
 * Stageira: very worth seeing ancient site in a beautiful landscape