Kalogria beach ( el, Παραλία Καλόγριας) is the name of a sandy and award-winning with Blue Flag

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that is located in the vicinity of the village

Araxos Araxos ( el, Άραξος, la, Araxus) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Larissos of the municipality West Achaea in the northwestern part of Achaea, Greece. The community consists of the villages Araxos, Akrotirio Araxos and ...

, in Northwestern

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. The beach is beside the Sprofylia natural park, it has a length of ~9 Km and width 80m and is one of the longest sandy beaches of Greece. The area close to the beach has many sand dunes that are formed by sea sand that moves with the aid of the westerly winds and the

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including C ...

waves. The dunes occupy an area of 200 hectares and can reach heights of up to 10 metres and widths from 20 – 500 metres. At the north edge of the beach there is the largest sand dune in Peloponnese and one of the largest in Greece. The beach is a popular destination for many tourists and Greeks. At a close distance to the beach there are a couple of hotels and restaurants. The airport of Araxos is in a distance of 7 km. The last 10 years there have been many attempts from arsonists to burn the Strofylia forest beside the beach of Kalogria. On 13 August 2015 a fire burned 160 acres of forest. On 17 October 2017 there has been another major incident of forest fire in the protected area and beside Kalogria beach. The results of the wild fires are not easily observable when someone visits the beach from the north (except an area beside the large dune).

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File:Kalogria beach and the river to the lagoon of prokopos.jpg, Kalogria beach. The small river ''Larissos'' connecting the lagoon of ''Prokopos'' and the Ionian sea. In the background the large sand dune of the beach. File:Kalogria beach during winter.jpg, Wavy sea at Kalogria beach during a sunny winter day. File:Αμμοθίνες στην Παραλία Καλογριάς - Sand dunes at Kalogria Beach.jpg, Sand dunes at Kalogria Beach File:Παραλία Καλογριάς - Kalogria Beach.jpg, Kalogria Beach File:Kalogria mavra vouna.jpg, Kalogria beach, with the forest of Strofylia and Mavra Vouna hills in the background

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