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- Ionian Village is the official international summer camping ministry of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and is located on a private facility on the shores of the Ionian Sea in western Peloponnese. Over 17,000 Greek-Americans have visited the camp since its establishment in 1970. Ionian Village operates a summer travel camp program for Greek-American high school youth. Each summer there are two 20-day sessions, identical in schedule. 200 campers per session fly together from New York to Athens and travel by motor coach to the camp, located near Vartholomio, west of the regional trading town of Amaliada. Summer staff for the camp are selected competitively from qualified Orthodox Christian young adults, in addition to medical staff and summer clergy, principally from United States. The daily camp program of Ionian Village consists of two aspects: in camp days and travel days. In camp days feature a blend of athletics, arts and crafts, music and greek culture, and time for free swim in the Olympic sized pool or the private beach. Travel days include day trips to historical sites in Greece such as ancient Olympia, Kalavryta, Patras, Vartholomio, and the islands of Zakynthos, Kerkyra, Aegina, & Kefalonia. At the end of the program, participants spend 3 nights in Athens, where they get to visit the Acropolis and Changing of the Guards in Syntagma Square, and shop in Monastiraki. (en)
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