{"id":50417,"date":"2025-05-19T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/?p=50417"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:58:20","slug":"greece-secures-657-blue-flag-awards-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/greece-secures-657-blue-flag-awards-for-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Secures 657 Blue Flag Awards for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"219\">Greece has been awarded a total of <strong data-start=\"85\" data-end=\"112\">657 Blue Flags for 2025<\/strong>, including <strong data-start=\"124\" data-end=\"139\">623 beaches<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"155\">17 marinas<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"193\">17 sustainable tourism boats<\/strong>, according to organizers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"441\">The awards were announced on Thursday during an event in Glyfada, south of Athens, hosted by the <strong data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"374\">Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN)<\/strong> \u2013 the national coordinator of the international Blue Flag program.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45576\" src=\"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11.png 602w, https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11-24x16.png 24w, https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11-32x21.png 32w, https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture11-48x32.png 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"443\" data-end=\"614\">With this result, <strong data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"523\">Greece accounts for 15% of all Blue Flag beaches worldwide<\/strong>, maintaining its position as the <strong data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"582\">second-ranked country<\/strong> among 52 participating nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"781\"><strong data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"652\">The northern region of Halkidiki<\/strong> led all municipalities with <strong data-start=\"681\" data-end=\"701\">93 awarded sites<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"732\">the island of Crete<\/strong> topped regional rankings with <strong data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"780\">153 locations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"983\">Globally, the Blue Flag jury honored <strong data-start=\"820\" data-end=\"873\">4,302 beaches, 736 marinas, and 158 tourism boats<\/strong> for 2025, recognizing excellence in <strong data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"982\">water quality, safety, environmental management, and public services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1232\">The Blue Flag program is operated by the <strong data-start=\"1026\" data-end=\"1074\">Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE)<\/strong>, based in Copenhagen. To qualify, sites must meet and maintain strict criteria related to <strong data-start=\"1165\" data-end=\"1231\">environmental protection, education, safety, and accessibility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has been awarded a total of 657 Blue Flags for 2025, including 623 beaches, 17 marinas, and 17 sustainable tourism boats, according to organizers. The awards were announced on Thursday during an event in Glyfada, south of Athens, hosted by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (HSPN) \u2013 the national coordinator of &#8230; <a title=\"Greece Secures 657 Blue Flag Awards for 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/greece-secures-657-blue-flag-awards-for-2025\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greece Secures 657 Blue Flag Awards for 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":45576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-immigration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50418,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50417\/revisions\/50418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/porticoandbridge.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}