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The Aigio is its coastal city Peloponnese and is its second largest city Of Achaia.
At a glance
It is the seat of the Municipality of Aigialeia while previously it was the seat of the former Municipality of Aigio. According to the 2011 Census it has a population of 20,422 inhabitants.
Ideal period of visit
The region of Aegio has a temperate Mediterranean climate and according to the classification of the current thermal insulation regulation belongs to the B 'climatic zone. The air temperature ranges from -0.7 ° C (average monthly minimum, measurements 1974-1997) to 37.7 ° C (average monthly maximum). The average annual temperature in the mainland is 18 -18.5 ° C. The winds are directed mainly NW. The average annual intensity is less than 4m / sec for most of the local government, while even in the mountains it does not exceed the value of 5 m / sec.
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Aigio is today the second largest city in population in its prefecture Of Achaia. It is built by the sea. Areas of special interest for tourists are the old part of town (with elements of the typical architecture of the early 20th century) and the beach from the train station (which provides an example of railway architecture of the early 20th century) to the church of Panagia of Tripiti, where the old raisin warehouses can be seen (all now internally transformed into a luxury cafe) but also of the old paper mill (which provides a typical example of industrial architecture from the beginning of the last century). In recent years, a part of it was transformed into a branch of ATEI. Patras, housing the departments of Physiotherapy and Optics-Optometry. The finds from antiquity are not many and are rather scattered around the city. Towards the area of the Reservoir excavations revealed two rectangular buildings of 500 BC. and 400 BC. respectively. The same excavation also confirmed the existence of a cemetery of classical times northwest of the same point, while in Ypsilon Alonia square (the central square of the city) tombs from the Mycenaean era were discovered. Towards the sea two more cemeteries (one Hellenistic and one Roman) also came to light. The important ancient buildings of the city, which Pausanias mentions in detail, were destroyed by successive earthquakes, but also by the Romans and the other conquerors. Archaeological finds from Aigio and Aegialia are kept today in the Archaeological Museum of the city. In Aigio, due to the flourishing economic situation, which is due almost exclusively to the trade of the famous Corinthian raisin, produced by the region, many beautiful neoclassical buildings were built, public and private, and temples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most of the most remarkable buildings of this type were saved from the devastating earthquakes, especially from the one of June 15, 1995. However, some were demolished in the late 1960s and 1970s, before they could be declared protected.