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.
It is a single-thematic Museum of Hellenic-Cappadocian Culture. The exhibition includes six (6) modules in the buildings, consisting of costumes, carpets, textiles, objects of daily life, tools and utensils, musical ...
At Kipia Eleftheroupolis opened its doors to the Wax Museum of Theodore Kokkinidi. The greatest figures of Greece and abroad gathered in the same place. Alice Vouyiouklaki, Constantine Karamanlis, Maria ...
The Drama Archaeological Museum was built by the Municipality of Drama and beguested to the Ministry of Culture. In this way the local community managed to speed up the procedure ...
The church of St. Nicholas is metochi of Athos Monastery in Vatopedi and currently works as a pilgrimage. Located on the island of the lagoon Vistonidas or Bourous, near the ...
In the Metropolitan throne of Drama in 1902 is positioned tha national martyr Chrysostomos Kalafatis, who with his guidance helps the construction of the imposing buildings of the place, the ...
The monastery of Panagia Kosmosoteira (Our Lady, Saviour of the World) includes a fortress wall (with towers and a gate) and a catholicon (main church) in the type of the ...
The Evros Delta, is one of the most important ecosystems in Europe and it has been recognized as an international wetland (Convention of Ramsar, 1971). It is a protected area ...
The most important massif of the prefecture of Drama is the Falakro Mountain, which is one of the largest mountains in the country. It is situated in the center of ...
On the route Xanthi-Porto Lagos and 2 km west from Porto Lagos, in New Kessani, is located the Information Center Lake of Vistonida. Open from mid-1998 and is staffed with ...
30/06/2017 - 02/07/2017The “6th Kavala Air/Sea show”
is planned to take place during the following dates: 30 June – 02 July 2017. It
is an annual, free-to-public show of aerospace and naval ...
Magical itineraries
start from Eleftheroupoli to semi-mountainous or mountainous villages that
embrace nature with all its splendour. There, one comes across samples of
traditional architecture.Eleftheroupoli,
Nikissiani, Paleochori, Moustheni, Messoropi, Podochori and Avli are well
preserved ...