Keratea

Keratea is a city in East Attica, Greece. Since the 2011 local authorities reform it is part of the municipality Lavreotiki, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has a place of 129.864 km2. Legend has it that once the barbarians got here to assault Greece at the land of Keratea, Zeus and Hedes drew the coast together with a purpose to talk and allowed simplest a strip of water in among. The Greeks had been so only a few so to offer them a combating hazard Zeus and Hades summoned Poseidonis and requested him to ship waves bigger than the barbarians ships.

People from that time say that even the Hades himself fought at the facet of the Greeks. So the ocean via the land of Keratea is called Kakia Thalassa the Bad Sea ever in view that. A wall painting monument 1744 of George Markou the Argus, the splendid and prolific publish­-Byzantine ecclesiastic iconographer of the 18th century Santo Athanasio. Keratea hosts the game teams Keravnos Keratea F.C., one of the maximum successful East Attica football clubs, and the multi-sport G.S. Kerateas Gymnastikos Syllogos Kerateas, the women's volleyball crew has constitute the city in Greek A1 Division for numerous years.