Useful Travel Information on Sifnos

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.
  • 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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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

  • 1 January : New Year’s Day
  • 6 January : The Epiphany
  • 25 March : National Holiday
  • 15 August : Assumption
  • 28 October: National Holiday
  • 25 and 26 December : Christmas

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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.

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Population

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

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Smoking

Smoking is prohibited in the state buildings and in public transportation. Smoking is allowed outdoors.

The consumption of alcohol is prohibited to persons under the age of eighteen years according to the Greek laws.

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Useful Telephones


Office / Business Telephone (+30)
Municipality of Sifnos 2284360310
Sifnos Police station 2284031210
Port authority 2284033617
Health station 2284031315
Pharmacy (Vavritsas Konstantinos) 2284033541
Pharmacy (Fotiadis Ioakeim) 2284033033
Dentist (Makaronas) 2284032350
Dentist (Papageletou) 2284032004
Dentist (Foutoulaki) 2284032222
Post office 2284031329
Telecommunication center 2284033499 - 2284033699
Bank (Alpha Bank) 2284033913 -2284033200
Bank (National Bank of Greece) 2284031317
Bank (Piraeus) 2284035000
Archaeological museum 2284031022
Folklore & Pop Art museum 2284031341
Ecclesiastic museum 2284031335

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