Amphipolis rewards a day out of Thessaloniki with the ancient Macedonian past written across one riverside plain. An hour and a quarter east of the city, the marble Lion guards the roadside, the vast Kasta Tomb rises under its hill, and a museum holds the finds of a city that Athens founded and Macedonia made … Read more
A day trip from Thessaloniki to Pella reaches the capital of the Macedonian kingdom and the birthplace of Alexander the Great, a short drive west across the plain of the Axios. The ancient city spreads over an open archaeological site of streets, houses, and public squares, and its pebble mosaics rank among the finest to … Read more
The Edessa waterfalls drop over the edge of a high plateau in the town of Edessa, west of Thessaloniki, where the Edessaios river reaches the rim of its gorge and falls to the plain below. The tallest of them, the Karanos, plunges seventy metres and ranks as the highest waterfall in Greece. A paved park … Read more
Thessaloniki rewards walkers in its centre, yet a rental car turns the wider region of Macedonia into a set of easy day trips. The city sits at the head of the Thermaic Gulf, with the airport to the south-east and the motorway network fanning out toward the mountains, the beaches, and the ancient capitals of … Read more
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki keeps the finds of Macedonia under one roof, from prehistory through the Hellenistic kingdom to the Roman city. The bronze Derveni Krater crowns the galleries, and the charred Derveni Papyrus reads as the oldest known manuscript in Europe. Gold wreaths, grave goods, sculpture, and mosaics fill the rooms around them, … Read more
Thessaloniki packs Roman ruins, Byzantine churches, and a five-kilometre seafront into one walkable centre at the head of the Thermaic Gulf. Greece’s second city carries two thousand years of layered history, from the Arch of Galerius to Ottoman fortress walls, alongside a food culture that earned it a UNESCO City of Gastronomy title. Travellers reach … Read more