Traveler's Guide
East Macedonia & Thrace
Region of East Macedonia & Thrace
The Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace occupies the northeastern part of Greece. It borders with Turkey easterly, Bulgaria northern and with the Regional Unit of Serres westerly. Southwest is washed by the Aegean Sea and southeast by the Thracian Sea. It includes the Regional Unities: Drama, Kavala, Xanthi, Rodopi and Evros.
It has a total area of 14.157 thousand hectares and covers the 10.7% of the total area of the country.
Also includes two major islands of Thracian Sea, Thassos and Samothrace.
Crossroad of major sea and land routes by which, for thousands of years, are moving people and goods, ideas and habits to and from the four cardinal points: from the Black Sea and Asia to Western Europe and from North Europe and the Balkans to the Mediterranean and North Africa.
The traces of its history, that start from the Paleolithic season and arrive to our days, are everywhere: caves, rock paintings, forts, temples, theaters, citadels, mines, graves, tumuli, marble quarries, Christian monuments, monasteries and holy places , aqueducts, Islamic monuments, traditional villages, Megara, mansions, tobacco warehouses.
The Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, during the ancient times, was covered by forests at the rate of about 80%, but today this percentage has limited to 55% per area. In its extent there are trackless forests, virgin nature, high mountains, rich flora and fauna, large rivers, lakes and lagoons and an endless coastline with clear blue waters and friendly beaches.
The region is a place of music, dance, feast and ritual. Dionysus and Orpheus never left from this earth. The reversals of nature (winter, spring, etc.) give an opportunity for reversals of another class: masquerading and walking over fires, and outspoken sprees, kidnappings and robberies, all in the context of ritual.
Mysteries of Cabeiri
The island of Samothrace was an important religious center of the whole ancient world of the Mediterranean because of the reputation of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods and the ...
Medieval towers of Samothrace
The towers and the medieval fortifications of Samothrace are among the greatest examples of fortress architecture of the late Byzantine period in Greece. They were built by the Genoese family ...
Traditional Settlement of Castle- Gennas Lake (Birth lake)
The Castle is the oldest settlement on the island an is located 12klm. northeast of Limenaria and at 500m altitude. The name was taken from the ruins of the ...
Holy Monastery of the Dormition of Holy Mary in Maries
We have not written testimony for the first building of the Church of Holy Mary, in its current location, before 1813. Also, we do not know if this church was ...
Holy Church of Saint Athanasius-Doxato
A remarkable building in Doksato is the church of Saint Athanasius in the center of the village which was built in 1867, with the support and expense of all the ...
Church of St. Nicholas Patagi
The initial phase of the temple should probably be placed at the end of the 17th and early 18th century. It is a small church that follows the formula of ...
Psili Ammos Beach
Well-known and…of course crowded,
is also the beach of Psili Ammos. With clean water, said to have healing
properties, this beach usually gathers young people, who seem to be in ...
Beach of N. Peramos
New Peramos due its privileged location next to the sea, is during the decades a popular destination for vacationers from surrounding provinces and nearby urban centers. There they can enjoy ...
Ecotourism Centre of Dadia
The first organized ecotourism infrastructure with reception, information and tour of guests began operating in 1994 in Dadia Ecotourism Centre with initiative of WWF Greece in cooperation with the former ...
08/07/2017 - 27/08/2017
Xylagani Village
Xylagani is a large village in the prefecture of Rhodope. The area is rural with large irrigated plains of crops, which most of them are cotton and grains crops. It ...
Traditional settlement of Perithori
The historic village Perithori is the "Souli of Macedonia" as named for the national struggles of the Greek people. Built on the foothills of a hill, the village has been ...
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