Porto Carras, the Glossary
Porto Carras (Greek: Πόρτο Καρράς), known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, is one of northern Greece's largest and most famous hotels and holiday resorts.[1]
Table of Contents
21 relations: Association football, Basketball, Chalkidiki, Constitution, European Union, Golf, Greece, Ivan Savvidis, Macedonia (Greece), Marina, MICE tourism, NATO, Neos Marmaras, President of Greece, Sithonia, Tennis, Thessaloniki, Tourism, Vineyard, Walter Gropius, Yiannis Carras.
- Buildings and structures in Central Macedonia
- Chalkidiki
- Hotel buildings completed in 1973
- Hotels established in 1973
- Hotels in Greece
- Marinas in Greece
- Walter Gropius buildings
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
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Chalkidiki
Chalkidiki (Chalkidikḗ, alternatively Halkidiki), also known as Chalcidice, is a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the region of Central Macedonia, in the geographic region of Macedonia in Northern Greece.
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Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Ivan Savvidis
Ivan Ignatyevich Savvidi (Иван Игнатьевич Саввиди,, translit,, ივან ეგნატეს ძე სავიდი, Ivan Egnates dze Savidi,, also known as Ivan Savvidis; born 27 March 1959), is a Russian-Greek businessman, named by some media as an oligarch.
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Macedonia (Greece)
Macedonia (Makedonía) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans.
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Marina
A marina (from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
MICE tourism
Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions tourism (MICE tourism) is a type of tourism in which large groups, usually planned well in advance, are brought together.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Neos Marmaras
Neos Marmaras (Νέος Μαρμαράς, Néos Marmarás,, "New Marmara") is a town on the Sithonia peninsula, in the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece.
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President of Greece
The president of Greece, officially the President of the Hellenic Republic (Próedros tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), commonly referred to in Greek as the President of the Republic (label), is the head of state of Greece.
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Sithonia
Sithonia (Σιθωνία), also known as Longos, is a peninsula and part of the larger peninsula of Chalkidiki in Greece.
Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Vineyard
A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice.
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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Yiannis Carras
John Constantine Carras (1907–1989) was a Greek shipping magnate, grandson of captain and sailing-ship owner Ioannis I. Carras from Kardamyla of Chios.
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See also
Buildings and structures in Central Macedonia
- Adendro railway station
- Porto Carras
Chalkidiki
- Aetos Varvara F.C.
- Archaeological Museum of Polygyros
- Aris Palaiochori F.C.
- Arnaia History and Folklore Museum
- Chalkidiki
- Christian Chalkidiki Exhibition
- Elia (Nikiti)
- Folklore Museum of Afytos
- Folklore Museum of Polygyros
- Porto Carras
- Triglia F.C.
- Vavdos Folklore Collection
- Xerxes Canal
Hotel buildings completed in 1973
- Belmond La Samanna
- Eldorado Resort Casino
- Empire Landmark Hotel
- Furama Hong Kong Hotel
- Grand Hotel (Taipei)
- Hôtel des Mille Collines
- Hôtel du Lac, Tunis
- Holiday Inn Orlando - Disney Springs Area
- Horseshoe Las Vegas
- Hotel Okura Tokyo
- Hyatt Regency Casablanca
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco
- Hyatt Regency Vancouver
- Jamaica Pegasus Hotel
- Leonardo Plaza Hotel Jerusalem
- Mariston Hotel
- Nakano Sunplaza
- Normandy Hotel
- Novotel Sarajevo Bristol
- One Snow Hill Plaza
- Oyo Hotel & Casino
- Park Tower Knightsbridge Hotel
- Plaza São Rafael Hotel
- Porto Carras
- Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg
- Shades of Green (resort)
- The Excelsior
- The Kingsbury
- Trident Hotel, Nariman Point
- Wrest Point Hotel Casino
Hotels established in 1973
- ANA Hotels
- Baymont Inn & Suites
- Belmond La Samanna
- Furama Hong Kong Hotel
- Hôtel des Mille Collines
- Hilton Washington DC National Mall
- Holiday Inn Orlando - Disney Springs Area
- Horseshoe Las Vegas
- Hyatt Regency Casablanca
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco
- Jamaica Pegasus Hotel
- Leonardo Plaza Hotel Jerusalem
- Lotte Hotels & Resorts
- Mahaweli Reach Hotel
- Mariston Hotel
- Mercure (hotel)
- Normandy Hotel
- Oyo Hotel & Casino
- Plaza São Rafael Hotel
- Porto Carras
- Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg
- Red Roof Inn
- Royal Cliff Hotels Group
- Seralago Hotel & Suites Main Gate East
- Sprowston Manor
- The Athenaeum Hotel
- The Excelsior
- The Fortress Resort & Spa
- The Montcalm
- Tower Hotel, London
- Trident Hotel, Nariman Point
Hotels in Greece
- Grecotel
- Makedonia Palace
- Porto Carras
- Poseidonion Grand Hotel
- Xenia (hotel)
Marinas in Greece
- Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre
- Bay of Zea
- Nea Aretsou
- Porto Carras
Walter Gropius buildings
- 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea
- Aluminum City Terrace
- Bauhaus
- Bauhaus Dessau
- Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
- Embassy of the United States, Athens
- Fagus Factory
- Großsiedlung Siemensstadt
- Gropius House
- Gropiusstadt
- Har Sinai – Oheb Shalom Congregation
- Harvard Graduate Center
- Impington Village College
- John F. Kennedy Federal Building
- Josephine M. Hagerty House
- Kurt Weill Centre
- MetLife Building
- Michael Reese Hospital
- Monument to the March Dead
- Peter Thacher Junior High School
- Porto Carras
- The Alan I W Frank House
- Tower East
- University of Baghdad
- Waldenmark
- Walter-Gropius-Haus (Berlin)
- Wayland High School
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Carras
Also known as Porto Carras Grand Resort, Porto Carras, Greece.