Select language:

Traveler's Guide

East Macedonia & Thrace

From Xanthi to Thermes

From Xanthi set off for Pomakohoria and Thermes. You cross a unique landscape, verdant, with traditional settlements and tobacco crops. You encounter Sminthi, Miki, Ehino in succession and arrive at Thermes in just over an hour, having driven 44.15km. The Relief of Mithras Tauroctonos The Relief of Mithras Tauroctonos (Mithras the Bull-slayer), dating to 2nd - early 3rd century AD, was chiseled out of a large rock, near Thermes Village in Xanthi and depicts Mithras (God of the Sun, of Persian origin) sacrificing a bull in the centre within a relief frame, which symbolizes a cave. To the right and left are the God’s disciples, Kautis and kautopatis. The archaeological site is open to visitors. For more information, contact LA’ EPKA Telephone: +30 25410 51003, +30 25410 51783 Xanthi Xanthi is a Byzantine city and believed to be guarded by the angels as testified by the “place’s marks”, according to historian Dimitris Mavridis. The monasteries of Pammegiston Taxiarxon, Panagia Arhongeliotissa, Panagia Kalamus and Agios Giorgios Monastery (according to recent research, there is a church of the same name there today) are situated at the four corners of the horizon, as if by analogy to the four tips of a cross, “crossing” the area and perpetuating the town’s existence. Xanthi is one of the few towns in Greece which has developed harmoniously , with respect and consideration for its history and past. A multicultural town, it has managed to gain a place in the heart of all its inhabitants, regardless of religion or ethnic origin. The Old Town of Xanthi “At that time, a copy of the belle epoch co-existed with authentic Turkish Minarets, and this gave colour and content to a very diverse population consisting of people from from all corners of Greece, who had accidentally ended up in the border area and could be seen dancing the Charleston in public squares” Manos Hadjidakis The Old Town of Xanthi is located in the northern part of the town and constitutes its historic nucleus. It covers an area of 380,000m2. The town was built after 1829, the year great earthquakes completely destroyed the previous settlement. The town was built on the ruins and around churches which had probably been there since Byzantine ‘Xantheia’. During the 19th century, Xanthi was a small town of 8,000 residents, financially prosperous, thanks to wealth from the cultivation, processing and transportation of tobacco and its products, but also because of its privileged position on significant trade routes. The town was built by Epirote and Macedonian craftsmen. It is characterized by its winding cobbled streets and filled with simple Balkan houses, inns, shops, churches, characteristic of the last Ottoman period, but also western neoclassical mansions whose owners were mainly tobacco merchants. In the old town there are 1,200 listed buildings. Of these, 140 are considered highly remarkable, 130 remarkable 260 of special interest. Mansions such as the one belonging to the tobacco merchant Kougioumtzoglou, which is home to the town’s Folk Museum, or Orfanidis’ mansion, today the Municipal Building. The old garrison headquarters where the great musical composer, Manos Hadjidakis, spent the first years of his life, has been preserved and is home to the “Manos Hadjidakis” multiplex of Art and Thought. The Municipal Picture Gallery of Xanthi “Chr. Pavlidis” is an excellent example of traditional West- Macedonian-Epirote architecture with its wooden ceilings being the chief feature, unique in the region and Tobacco Warehouse P at 9, Kapnergates Street, which belongs to the Foundation of Thracian Art and Tradition.

1
Old Town of Xanthi
2
Folklore Museum of Xanthi
3
Municipal Gallery of Xanthi
4
Church of the Archangels
5
Church of Holy Mary Archangeliotissa
6
Byzantine Castle of Xantheia
7
Holy Monastery of Holy Mary Kalamous
8
Relief of Mithra Tavroktonou

Form: Appointment of responsible person

Links

ΠΑΜΘ

Website of the “Region of Eastern Macedonia - Thrace”

Greek Tourist Organizer

Website of the “Greek Tourist Organizer”

ODYSSEAS

Website of “ODYSSEAS”

Privacy Policy

Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights - Responsibility of the Site and the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace

The content of this portal has been collected and evaluated by each partner of the project (Region of East Macedonia & Thrace, Regional Administration of Smolyan, Regional administration of Kardzhali και Regional Administration of Haskovo) for the area which each partner represents. Each partner represents each region for the implementation of the Action 3.2 "Content Collection" for the approved applitcation form of JTI - TARGET project under "Greece - Bulgaria 2007 -2013" Interreg Call. The content including images, photos, graphics, texts, textures and in general all the data of the portal is in the responsibility of each partner. The content update and upload of each region belongs to each partner which has also the copyright for those content. This means that the content in this portal of all the point of interests of the Region of Smolyan belongs to the Partner Regional Administration of Smolyan. The content in this portal of all the point of interests of the Region of Haskovo belongs to the Partner Regional Administration of Haskovo, The content in this portal of all the point of interests of the Region of Kardzhali belongs to the Partner Regional Administration of Kardzhali, The content in this portal of all the point of interests of the Region of Region of East Macedonia & Thrace belongs to the Partner Region of East Macedonia & Thrace.

Given the nature and the size of the Internet, under no circumstances, including the case of negligence, will the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace is not responsible for any kind of loss caused to the visitor/user of the pages, services, choices and contents of this portal, which one undertakes at one’s own initiative. The portal and the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace do not guarantee that the pages, the services, the choices and the contents will be provided non-stop and without errors and that the errors will be corrected, because each content belongs to the Region that belongs. Furthermore, the portal and the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace do not guarantee that the servers, through which it is made available to users, do not contain “viruses” or other harmful contents. The Region of East Macedonia & Thrace guarantee the correctness, completeness or even the availability of the contents, pages, services, choices or their results only for its Region, not for the other Regions.

Links to other Websites
The Portal and the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace do not control the availability, the content, the personal data protection policy, the quality and the completeness of the services of other web sites and pages to which it directs users through hyperlinks. Consequently, for any problem arising during their visit/use, the user has to address directly the corresponding web sites and pages, which have the full responsibility for the delivery of their services. The Portal and the Region of East Macedonia & Thrace can under no circumstances be considered to agree with or accept the content or the services of the web sites and the pages to which it directs users or to be associated with them in any way.

Applicable Law and other Conditions
The aforementioned terms and conditions of the use of the Portal, as well as any modification of them, are governed and completed by the Greek law, the law of the European Union and the relevant international treaties (like indicatively and not restrictively the Law 2472/1997 for the protection of the individual and the protection of personal data, as completed by the decisions of the Chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Personal Data, the Presidential Decrees 207/1998 and 79/2000 and Article 8 of the Law 2819/2000, as well as the Law 2774/1999 and the European Law (directives 95/46/EC and 97/66/EC). Any provision of the above conditions that becomes opposing to the law, it ceases to apply by right and is removed from the present, without the validity of the remaining conditions being affected in any case. No modification of these conditions will be taken into account and will be part of this agreement, unless it has been officially formulated and incorporated into it.

Contractors: DOTSOFT AE & IKNOWHOW AE