Yiannis Carras

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Yiannis Carras (Greek: Γιάννης Καρράς), also known as John C.Carras, was a Greek shipping magnate. In the end of 1960s he bought an extended area in Sithonia, Chalkidiki peninsula in northern Greece and in 1973 he started constructing a tourist resort, known as Porto Carras, which became one of the most famous holiday resorts in Greece. Yiannis Carras died in 1989.