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Piraeus (Greece)

Πειραιάς

Presentation of Piraeus
Flag of Piraeus
Yacht clubs
- Hellenic Offshore Racing Club
- Yacht Club Piraeus

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Presentation of Piraeus

Quoting Wikipedia:

Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center.

Piraeus is Greece's third largest urban centre and the second of the Greek capital following the municipality of Athens, with a population of 175,697 people (in 2001) and an area of 11 sq km (4 sq mi). The Piraeus urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits to the suburban municipalities, with a total population of 466,065 (in 2001) and a land area of 50 km2 (19 sq mi). The city is the administrative capital of the Piraeus Prefecture.
Situated upon the Saronic Gulf, Piraeus is the largest passenger port in Europe and the third largest in the world, servicing about 20 million passengers annually. With a throughput of 1.4 million TEUs, Piraeus is placed among the first ten ports in container traffic in Europe and the top container port in Eastern Mediterranean.

Aleksandar Nemet, 12 January 2010

Flag of Piraeus

The flag of Piraeus is white with a blue border and the municipal emblem in the middle.

The municipal emblem must represent Themistocles (archont of Athens in 493-492 BC), who initiated the fortification of the natural harbour of Piraeus to house the Athenian fleet. The date "1835" recalls that Piraeus was granted municipal statutes that year.

Aleksandar Nemet & Ivan Sache, 13 January 2010

Yacht clubs

Hellenic Offshore Racing Club

Burgee of Hellenic Offshore Racing Club - Image by Ivan Sache, 19 July 2005

Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC, Πανελλήνιος Όμιλος Ιστιοπλοΐας Ανοικτής Θαλάσσης, website) was established in 1961 in Piraeus. For many years, it was the only Greek sailing club involved only in offshore sailing. HORC organizes the most important sailing race in Greece, the Aegean Rally. HORC is operating an offshore racing school since 1969, with more than 15,000 graduates to date, and is representing Greece at the International Offshore Committee in Mediterranean for 25 years.

The burgee of HORC is quartered red-blue with a white disc charged with a blue fouled anchor.

Ivan Sache, 19 July 2005

Yacht Club Piraeus

Burgee of YC Piraeus - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 July 2001

The burgee of YCP, as shown graphically on the YCP website, is a very dark blue, with proportions 3:5, triangular flag with a yellow emblem made of a eight-pointed star with the northern, western, southern, and eastern points longer than the four other ones and a point added to the northern branch.

Ivan Sache, 27 July 2001