The Loggas Hotel lies at an altitude of 1100 m in the village Sidirochori just 7 km north of Kastoria. As the fur trade and fur processing town, Kastoria is the center of Europe, a trade fair highlights the importance. From the Loggas Hotel one has the most beautiful panoramic views of the valley formed […]
Mount Athos
Mount Athos is a monastic republic, which under international law belongs to Greece, but it is managed autonomously. The access for women is strictly prohibited – out of reverence for the Virgin Mary. In recent years, the modernization of the monasteries were funded by the EU with 150 million EUR, although it is rumored that […]
Canal of Potidea – Greece
Canal of Potidea in Central Macedonia – Greece Kassandra is the westernmost of three fingers of the Chalkidike peninsula. At its narrowest point in the northern part it is intersected by the Canal of Potidea. The 40 m wide waterway was built by the Macedonian King Cassander around 300 BC. For a long time, Cassander was […]
Hagios Demetrios – Άγιος Δημήτριος
Hagios Demetrios in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a five-naves basilica dedicated to the patron saint of Thessaloniki, Saint Demetrius. The basilica is part of the UNESCO world heritage Palaeochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki. It is the largest church in the city and was presumably built on the remains of a Roman bath where Demetrius possibly […]
City walls of Thessaloniki
The city walls of Thessaloniki were built by Kassandros after the foundation of the city and later reinforced by the Romans. However, the walls which one can see today originate from the Byzantine period. Due to the constantly increasing traffic, parts of the walls were torn in 1869. 4 km of the originally 8 km […]
Olynth – Chalkidiki – Greece
Olynth – Olynthus Όλυνθος – once a thriving ancient city, lies on the edge of Kassandra’s gulf on the Greek peninsula of Chalkidiki. We visit Olynth on our way to Thessalian Plain. Already founded in the 7th century BC, the city was strategically located on a 40 m high hill landscape. The older southern district […]
Around Litochoro at Mount Olmypus
Litochoro (Λιτόχωρο) lies at the foot of the massif of Mount Olympus. The town is an ideal starting point for hiking, biking and excursions in the surrounding forests and valleys. After short time, we reach the new monastery of Agios Dionysios in the former monastery property Skala in the valley of the river Enipeas which […]
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, is the second largest city in Greece and has always been an important transport hub. Today it is considered as an important gateway from Europe to Istanbul and to the Near East. In addition, Thessaloniki has a good reputation as a university, cultural, trade and industrial city. In the east of […]
Perea on the coast of the Gulf of Thermaikos
Perea, a suburb of Thessaloniki, is located approx. 17 kilometers southeast of the city center on the coast of the Thermaic Gulf in Central Macedonia. Perea is the ideal place to relax after the long car ride to Greece. We have chosen the land route via Belgrade and did not, as usual after the Balkan […]
Dion – a place of worship in the ancient world
Dion, a place with approx. 1450 inhabitants, is located near the highway Thessalonki-Larissa in the Greek region of Central Macedonia, about 15 km from the town of Katerini. Ancient Dion, an important archaeological place of the Macedonian culture is not far from the modern place Dion in the plane northwest of the Mount Olympus massif. […]
