Katerini is a city in Macedonia with a population of 56,961 inhabitants and is located on the hill, between the Pieria Mountains and the Thermaikos Gulf. The residents of Katerini were engaged in tourism businesses, road transport, animal husbandry, agriculture such as tobacco cultivation and kiwi which flourished in Katerini and Pieria and was the first place in Greece to be cultivated. The predecessors participated in all the national liberation struggles of the Greeks, from the Revolution of 1821, the movement of 1854, the Macedonian Revolution of 1878 and the Macedonian Struggle.
Today, Katerini is a tourist destination with the development of organized holiday centers on the coasts of Kallithea, Korino, Olympiaki Aktis, Paralia Katerini and Peristasi. The city also has one of the largest urban parks in Greece, with technical lakes, fountains and sculptures. In 2008, the city's railway station was reconstructed, in the district of the same name, while since 2007 it has been connected by a suburban railway to the city of Thessaloniki. Every September, the town's Trade Fair is organized in the settlement of Andromachis.
The city appears with the word name Aikaterini or Agia Aikaterini in the language of the bureaucracy until the beginning of the 20th century and finally the name Katerini prevailed, so November 25th is considered a local holiday due to the patron saint Agia Aikaterini.
In 1961, the urban complex of Katerinis was the fourth urban center in Macedonia, after Thessaloniki, Kavala and Serres, and the twelfth in Greece. This population growth, which of course was followed by a corresponding development of the shape of the city, is largely due to the development of tobacco cultivation and the increase in the production of Katerinis variety tobaccos, which after the Second World War, were in demand on the international market for a significant period of time. It is also characteristic that the contribution of tobacco to the formation of the relatively high income of the area of Katerini, and in general of the prefecture of Pieria, is greater than in any other region of Greece.
