✔ Lagyna, our area page 20

Further down, in a cliff there is the spring of the Holy Water. After Easter, the day that ZoodohosPigi is celebrated, many people go up there with “tsoureki” (special sweet bread that we bake for Easter) and red eggs, to worship and take some holy water.

High up in Lagyna, there is a nice place with a beautiful view. This place is where our football field and basketball court are. Lots of children meet there to play football and basketball. The players of our football team, called “ E t h n i k o s L a g y non” , train there and also play against other teams.

Lake Volvi is the second largest lake in Greece after Lake Trihonida. The distance between Lake Koroneia and Lake Volvi is 11,5 km. According to the Ramsar Convention they are considered to be α Wetland with International Importance.

Nea Alikarnassos is a district of the city of Heraklion with about 14.000 inhabitants. It is situated by the sea. It was named after Alikarnassos, Asia Minor, when refugee residents of old Alikarnassos settled in 1922 after the Asia Minor disaster in the present-day region defined as Nea Alikarnassos.

Today's Nea Alikarnassοs combines everything: hotels for guests' accommodation, shops of all kinds, churches, public services, banks, dispensaries, and pharmacies. There are also entertainment and sport facilities, cafés, taverns, fields, gyms but also learning hubs such as foreign language centres and various technical schools. Moreover, it is very close to the port, the airport, the Heraklion police manor and the Reserve Infantry School.

Nea Alikarnassos has been divided into three zones, depending on the occupations of the inhabitants. In the northern zone the "seafood" residents are engaged in fishing, in the south the "agricultural" farmers reside, while in the intermediate central zone the "urban" citizens have developed urban activities and are traders, craftsmen and builders. The sports club "Herodotus" that exists here, took its name from the "father of history" Herodotus who lived in old Alikarnassos during the 5th century BC.

The 2nd Elementary School is our school that also has its own history. Founded in 1959, today it is like this:

Our school has about 260 students and about 40 teachers of various specialties. It is co-located with the 5th Primary School of Nea Alikarnassos, which also has about 110 students. It is considered a quite vast building with three courtyards. More specifically, we have a multipurpose room, a computer