VOURVOUROU 
Vourvourou is a seasonal community and administratively it belongs to the village of Aghios Nicholaos at a distance of 120km from Thessaloniki and 50km from Poligiros. Its history is known from the 10th century, when the small monastery of Ieromnimon in the area was given as a "metochi" to the Mt. Athos monastery of Xenophontos. The area was known by the name "Land of  Vourvouron". It was covered with oak trees, contrary to today's vegetation which is mainly coniferous trees. The monastery of Xenophontos developed the area during Byzantine times. The neighboring fish farm was organized and the fields were used mainly as pasture for the monastery cattle.
In 1878, during the Russian-Turkish war, the Turks attempted to settle Circassian refugees in the area, but this was finally avoided thanks to the efforts of the Greek consulate in Thesaloniki.
In the 1960's professors of the University of Thessaloniki established a community of national significance.
In 1974 excavations were carried out in the area around the chapel of Panaghia in Vourvourou and ruins were unearthed which are believed to belong to the Byzantine monastery of Ieromnimon and the more recent "metochi" of Simonos Petra. Famous local products Wine-grapes and fish. Sightseeing - The "Great Wall" (Megas Tichos), a small peninsula north of Vourvourou, which received its name from the section of an ancient wall which is still preserved there. Today the section which has been preserved is 50m long, about three meters tall and more than 2 m thick. - The islands of Vourvourou, a cluster of nine small islands which surround the larger island of Diaporos. - The "metochi" of Koutloumousiou, 5km from Sarti. - The "metochi" of Zographou, 1km from the "metochi" of Koutloumousiou. - The professors'community, an area of about 400 stremma (approx. 100 acres) of pine-covered land on the small peninsula.