Greek culture doesn’t need an introduction: everybody knows the beauty of the cultural heritage the former inhabitants of Greece left us. For most people it will be a surprise you can see some of these pearls in the north of Greece
In Olympiada, 2 places will immediately catch the eye:
- the church of Nikolaos and Anastasia with the wooden bell tower, nearby the port
- the hill with the walls of Ancient Stagira, the birthplace of the Greek philisopher Aristotle.
Thessaloniki is the second largest city of Greece and definitely worth a visit.
Founded in 315 BC, the city has always been a crossroad of civilizations, a place where the
East and West meets, where great cultures and religions have been mixed.
Thessaloniki is considered an open-air museum of Byzantine art, but it has also some
amazing Ottoman monuments and a few interesting archaeological sites.
The pictures on this site are only a few examples from the city’s rich collection of historical buildings and monuments which can be seen. For those who would like to visit musea, Thessaloniki presents the Archaeological Museum, the Ethnographical Museum and the State Museum of Contemporary Art.
The archaeological site of Philippi is a singular case of an untouched archaeological site with monuments in an exceptional state of preservation. It’s the most important archaeological site of eastern Macedonia, with characteristic monuments of the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian periods. In 2016 this site became part of the UNESCO World Heritage List.
