Useful Travel Information on Sifnos

Contents:
Tourist Police
Currency Exchange from euros
Current / Time / Language
Feasts - holidays
Press
Population
Smoking
Useful telephone numbers

Tourist Police

The Tourist Police is a department of the Greek Police Force that consists of specially trained men and women, who all speak foreign languages. In the framework of its action it provides the following services:

  It serves domestic or foreign tourists on information issues, facilitations and solving problems that arise with the tourist enterprises.

  It collaborates with the qualified Tourism Directorates and the Local Authorities Organisations in order to cope with tourist issues.

  It implements the tourist legislation in enterprises, means and places of tourist interest, such as hotels, apartments and rooms to let, travel agencies and buses, leasing stores for passenger cars and motorcycles of private use, archaeological sites, guides, ski centres, watering places, stations of massive arrivals and departures, health stores operating in tourist enterprises, in free camping spaces etc. and

  It carries out controls in tourist enterprises, in order to serve and to protect the tourists, in the best possible way.

Tourism police operates a telephone line - just dial "171"-, on a 24-hour basis where they provide all kinds of information and directions, in Greek, in English, in French and in German, for the immediate solution of tourists’ problems.

There is no Tourist Police in Sifnos; however the local Police Station also acts as Tourist Police. Telephone No: +30 2284031210

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TO EXCHANGE CURRENCY FROM EUROS 

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Current:

The standard current in Sifnos, as well as all over Greece is 230V AC (50z). The devices from North America need a transformer and from England an adapter.

Time:

The local time is GTM+2 hours. 

Language:

The official language is the Greek language, but most of the residents also speak English.

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Feasts / Holidays 2008

  1 January : New Year’s Day
 6 January : The Epiphany
10 March : Shrove Monday
25 March: National Holiday
27 and 28 April : Easter
16 June: Feast of the Holy Spirit (Holiday for the Public Sector)
15 August : Assumption
28 October: National Holiday
25 and 26 December : Christmas

Press

All the Greek newspapers and magazines and most of the foreign newspapers and magazines arrive to the island every day. The central Press Agency is situated in Apollonia, from where most of the printed matters are distributed to most of the island’s settlements.

Population

According to the last (2002) official census, the permanent residents of Sifnos are 2.500.

Smoking

Smoking is prohibited in the state buildings and in public transportation. Almost all restaurants, taverns, coffee - patisseries, bars, night clubs etc. have special  smoking areas. Smoking is allowed outdoors

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Useful Telephones    (+30)

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