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Halki Island
The island of Halki is situated 35 nautical miles west of the city of Rhodes and just 5 miles from the promontory of Monolithos, Rhodes.
With an area of 37.0 square kms and 34 kms of coastline, it is one of the smallest islands of the Dodecanese group.
It has an irregular rectangular shape with a length of 10 kms from west to east and a width of approximately 3 kms from north to south.
The landscape is mountainous with the most important peaks being those of Prophet Elias (518m), Kapouli (512) and Kapnikari (500m).
With the exceptions of the main port of Imporio and the beach of Pontamos, the other beaches found of the island are small and rocky.
Foods:
Ofto (paschal lamb stuffed with rice and kidneys baked in a traditional wood fire oven), salted small-fry, lentil-rice (lentils frits with onions and rice), koulia (hand made mocaroni cut in the shape of pebbles), Halkitiko macaroni (hand made and cut finely and cooked after a few hours and served with fried onion) etc.
Sweets:
Kserotigana, kneaded loukoumades amongst others.
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