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.

The Old Heroon

The Old Heroon It’s Located in the small park opposite the Archaeological Museum. It is the work of the talented local sculptor Peter Moschidis made of solid marble in 1930. Two large ...

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Archaelogical museum of Kavala

Archaelogical museum of Kavala The history of the Museum of Kavala, together with that of the Archaelogical Service in the region, starts in 1934 with the allocation of the first curator of Antiquities G. ...

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Folklore Museum of Orestiadas

Folklore Museum of Orestiadas In the Museum exhibited historical and folkloric material in Eastern Thrace, Eastern Rumelia and Western Thrace, period 1800-1950, are mainly of authentic rural and urban traditional Thracian costumes, ecclesiastical items, ...

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Monastery of Metamorfosis Sotiros Nikiton

Monastery of Metamorfosis Sotiros Nikiton Inside a rocky, uneven but green area surrounding the villages Makrychori, Elafochori, Disvato & Stegno Highland of the river is still a humble workshop of prayer, true oasis in today’s ...

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Servili Mosque

Servili Mosque The mosque is located in the district of “Asia” (Asa Mahalle), on Skra street, no.20. The monument is a square building, with pitched roof. The prayer room is a ...

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Holy Monastery of Holy Mary Kalamous

Holy Monastery of Holy Mary Kalamous The monastery is situated north of Xanthi in a gorge that has an altitude difference of 170meters from the area the area. The name of the monastery comes from the ...

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Geopark and Fossilised Forest of Fylakto

Geopark and Fossilised Forest of Fylakto In the region have been dating petrified trees which date back to years, that the human minds find it dificult to travel.Pieces of logs are found scattered in many parts ...

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Sanative Springs of Traianoupoli

Sanative Springs of Traianoupoli The Sanative Springs of Traianoupolis are thermometalic, chlorine and hydrogen sulfide radiouches. Services of enriched spas are provided, accommodation in a clean environment and in harmony with nature throughout the ...

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Ptelea or Karagatseli and Marsh lagoons

Ptelea or Karagatseli and Marsh lagoons They are two coastal, shallow lakes with salt water, muddy shores, sandy strips of land, BEACHES to the side of the sea and salt marshes. There is a link between ...

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Doxato

Doxato It lies on the road of Drama - Kavala at a distance of 10 and 25 km respectively.The settlement of Doxato is an interesting example of the application of innovative ...

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Kali Vrysi

Kali Vrysi It is located 23 km NW of the city of Drama in NE foothills of Menikio mountain across from Falakro Mountain. Built with traditional farmhouses of the late 19th century, ...

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Xylagani Village

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 ...

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