Makrigialos? Makry Gialos? Makriyialos? One word or two? There are many different latin spellings of the town's name, which translates as Long Beach. They depend on whether the original Greek is translated alphabetically or phonetically. New roadsigns erected recently signalled a change in official policy, from spelling it as Makrigialos to Makry-Gialos, though Makrigialos, and to a lesser extent Makriyialos, remains more commonly used elsewhere. Visitors might also notice that the town is actually two villages joined together; Makrigialos itself to the west and the village of Analipsi to the east. These should not be confused with similarly named towns in Pieria (in Macedonia, northern Greece), and the islands of Zante, and Kefalonia, or the Analipsi near Hersonissos on the north coast of Crete.