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About Thessaloniki

1st Option: Visit to the Byzantine Museum & City tour

  1. White Tower, statue of Alexander the Great, the international Trade Fair grounds, the University campus, the Galerious Arch, the Rotunda, St. Demetrius Church, Castles, Aristotle’s pedestrian street, Ladadika area, the port, Aristotle’s square. A visit to the Upper City, a protected area for its tradiotional architecture, see the Byzantine Walls, walk the Alyseos tower to enjoy a panoramic view of the city, of the Thermaic Gulf and if whether permits of Olympus Mountain.
  2. White Tower, statue of Alexander the Great, the international Trade Fair grounds, the University campus, the Galerious Arch, the Rotunda, the Bey Hamam, Aristotle’s pedestrian street, the Bezesten, the Hamza Bey Mosque, Ladadika area, the port, Aristotle’s square, visit St. Demetrus Church. A visit to the Upper City, a protected area for its traditional architecture, see the Byzantine Walls, walk to the Alyseos tower to enjoy a panoramic view of the city, of the Thermaic Gulf and if whether permits of Olympus Mountain.

Duration of tour: 1 hour museum & 2 hour city tour

2nd Option: Visit to the Byzantine & Archaeological Museum

Duration of tour: 1 hour each museum

3rd Option: City tour

  1. White Tower, statue of Alexander the Great, the international Trade Fair grounds, the University campus, the Galerious Arch, the Rotunda, St. Demetrius Church, Castles, Aristotle’s pedestrian street, Ladadika area, the port, Aristotle’s square. A visit to the Upper City, a protected area for its tradiotional architecture, see the Byzantine Walls, walk the Alyseos tower to enjoy a panoramic view of the city, of the Thermaic Gulf and if whether permits of Olympus Mountain.
  2. White Tower, statue of Alexander the Great, the international Trade Fair grounds, the University campus, the Galerious Arch, the Rotunda, the Bey Hamam, Aristotle’s pedestrian street, the Bezesten, the Hamza Bey Mosque, Ladadika area, the port, Aristotle’s square, visit St. Demetrus Church. A visit to the Upper City, a protected area for its traditional architecture, see the Byzantine Walls, walk to the Alyseos tower to enjoy a panoramic view of the city, of the Thermaic Gulf and if whether permits of Olympus Mountain.

Duration of tour: 2 hour

4th Option: Vergina Museum tour (Aigai)

Duration of tour: 2 hour

5th Option: Petralona Cave

“A visit to a cave with unique beauty value”

It is the “Petralona Cave” of Stalactites and stalagmites, formed at an attidude of approximately 300 meters above sea level. The cave bacame known worldwide in the autumn of 1960, when the famous fossil skull of “Petralona Man” was found. Systematic excavations of the cave in 1965 and incestigations showed that the “Petraloneios Archanthropos” (i.e. archaic Homo sapiens) is 700.000 years old representing the oldest known hitherto European human being.