Monolithi
Monolithi is a big sandy beach, in west coast of Preveza Prefecture, Greece. Total length of the beach is 25 km. So, it is the longest sandy beach of European Union,.[1][2] The name Monolithi comes from Greek roots "Μόνος" + "Λίθος" = "single" + "stone". It was an oversea rock 10X10m, near the coast, until year 1942, when German and Italian soldiers destroyed the rock with mortar fire. A photograph before 1942 is available. Today the rock exists as an undersea reef (-10 cm from the surface).[3]
Geography
Monolithi beach extends like a sector with western orientation, in length 25 km, from Village Mytikas of Preveza (Cape Komarus) until the Village Kastrosykia also of Preveza City. The wide of sandy beach in winter is about 50–10 meters, and ends in Monolithi protected forest, also in Koukos hills. During all coast of Monolithi coast we have the Villages Mytikas, Kanali and Kastrosykia.[4]
Geology
The coastline of the Ionian Sea has a mixed form. The main sandy beach of Mytikas, Monolithi, Kanali, to Kastrosykia length is 25 km is the longest of the European Union sandy beach. (Panos Paschos, Geologist, 2002, Harry Gouvas, 2009, Google Earth 2008). The Ionian coast are wide historical creation that starts from the middle Pleistocene (600,000 years BC). The Pleistocene period has broad course of 10,000 BC to 2,000,000 BC Geologically, the Ionian coast from Preveza to Parga show upward movements, while the east area of Amvrakikos marked slow precipitation which is substituted by the silting of the rivers Arachthos and Louros. At Agios Georgios of Ligia there are tufts of coral at a depth of 1,5m from the sea on a cohesive conglomerates. The dating of samples from the corals of Lygia, the Jotl 1999, the method U / Th, gave age around 13,000 years BC. In place Rider Kastrosikia at an altitude of 40m identified small size marine sand beaches and age was determined by the method of thermoluminescence at about 124,000 years BC .
Map Plan and Tourism
The beach Monolithi is an open circular arc segment (sector) with a southwest-facing slope about 10-20 degrees. Starting from Komarus Cape in Mytikas village in the municipality of Preveza. From there begins the so-called aesthetic Monolithi forest which is about 8 km and a width of 200m, nominated by the coastline and the National Road Preveza Igoumenitsa. This zone is Archaeological Zone "Alpha" and no construction activity is allowed because of Ancient Nikopolis. It follows the stretch of beach in Kanali Village in Preveza Municipality. At the 10th kilometer of the route is the complex Nicopolis Club built by the decorator Leandros Spartiotis in 1992 as a copy of Ancient Nicopolis. Here are the beaches of Kanali Camping and Then hotels in Kanali beach(Kanali Hotel, Niko Hotel, Katerina Hotel, Theoxenia Hotel, etc.) and the newly constructed Kanali Beach. Then follow residential resort complexes and hotels Kastrosikia (E.g. Golden Beach (http://www.goldenbeachpreveza.gr), Preveza Beach, Kleopatra Hotel, Poseidon Hotel, Kassopi Hotel, Nepheli Hotel, etc.). After Kastrosykia coastline is changing form and consists of alternating bays to Parga. The total length of the coastline west of the prefecture of Preveza is 70 km and is a pristine growing tourist area.
References
- ↑ Harry Gouvas - Χαράλαμπος Γκούβας: "Η Ιστορία του Νομού Πρέβεζας" (History of Preveza prefecture), έκδοση 2009, ISBN 978-960-87328-2-7
- ↑ Panos Paschos, Geologist-Παναγιώτης Πάσχος (γεωλόγος ΙΓΜΕ): "Γεωδυναμική εξέλιξη της ευρύτερης περιοχής του Αμβρακικού κόλπου από το Μειόκαινο μέχρι σήμερα" (Geodynamic Evolution of Preveza Coast from Myocaen until today), Διδακτορική διατριβή, ΕΜΠ, Τμήμα ΜΜΜ, Αθήνα, 2002
- ↑ Σύλλογος Πρέβεζα (The Prevezians Club): Φωτογραφικό Λεύκωμα της παλιάς Πρέβεζας, έκδοση 2007, Photo albub of Old Preveza, edition of 2007
- ↑ The map of Preveza, Editions of the Museum of Arts and Sciences of Epirus, edition 2015
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