Traveler's Guide

East Macedonia & Thrace

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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.

Greek Urban School of Nestoros Tsanaklis

Greek Urban School of Nestoros Tsanaklis It is known that Nestor Tsanaklis, a large tobacco trader from Komotini, emigrant in Cairo, financed in the early 20th century the construction of an Urban School. The building was ...

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Kavala's fortress

Kavala's fortress The fortress is located at the top of most traditional district of the city of Kavalas in the top of peninsula of Panagia or Old City as it is known, ...

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Nautical Museum of Kavala

Nautical Museum of Kavala The Nautical Museum of Kavala was created in 2005 with the aim of preserving the maritime cultural heritage. Currently is underway the creation of space that will house the Maritime ...

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Church of the Assumption

Church of the Assumption Located inside the fortress on the eastern side. It is four-aisle with splint, wooden roof and its floor is at a lower level than the round space. It was built ...

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HOLY METROPOLITAN TEMPLE OF IOANNIS BAPTISTIS

HOLY METROPOLITAN TEMPLE OF IOANNIS BAPTISTIS In 1864 the Greek Orthodox Community of Kavala acquired the right to build district outside the fort and the City's the first task was to build a church for the ...

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Holy Monastery of Dormition of Holy Mary

Holy Monastery of Dormition of Holy Mary It belongs to the Bishopric of Alexandoupoli. It is located in the coastal area of Makri, five kilometers away from it. It is established in 1978 by the then Bishop ...

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Protected areas – preys' shelters-Municipality of Paranesti-Preys' shelters

Protected areas – preys' shelters-Municipality of Paranesti-Preys' shelters Prinolofos-Mavrokordato (Platanias-Pteleas), covering an area of 3.900 hectares, and pertains to the Forest Service of Drama (FEK 540/Β/90), , Aetorachi (of Paranesti), covering an area of 3.250 hectares, and pertains ...

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Clay infirmary of Κrinides

Clay infirmary of  Κrinides The Pilotherapeftirio of Krinides is very near the Baptistery of Saint Lydia and is considered one of the most important Mud baths in Greece. The venue, with which the man ...

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Natura Areas – preys' shelters of Paranesti

Natura Areas – preys' shelters of Paranesti 1) Natura Areas 2000: Frakto Forest. 2) Natura Areas 2000: Virgin Forest of central Rhodope. 3) Preserved natural monuments - The Virgin Forest of central Rhodope. Preys" Shelters: 1) Prinolofos-Mavrokordato. ...

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Drama

Drama Mountains: “Falakro” Ski Resort, cliffs, canyons, River Aggitis CaveRhodope: Virgin forests, forests of spruce and birch forests, a unique natural beauty in Greece. The comparative advantage of prefecture is the ...

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Nymphea Settlement

Nymphea Settlement Nymphea is a mountain village (alt. 550 m) and it’s located in Rhodope, 18 km north of Komotini. All the houses in Nymphea are stone coated and have wooden ...

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Rhodope

Rhodope High mountains with forested slopes embrace a fertile plain that gently fades towards the Thracian Sea. the The breathtaking cliffs of Thracian Meteora are monoliths of the ancient Maronia, Ismara ...

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