Thessaloniki: 3-Day Meteora Trip with Tours, Museum & Hotel

The Holy Trinity monastery on top of its sheer rock pillar at Meteora, with the Pindus mountains behind.

The 3-day Meteora trip from Thessaloniki joins tours of the rock monasteries, a museum visit and hotel nights near Kalambaka. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover what the Meteora trip from Thessaloniki includes, the comparison with a day trip, the Byzantine church of Kalambaka, Porta … Read more

Trikala Tours

Trikala tours at the Koursoum Mosque with its dome, arcade and minaret in Trikala

Trikala tours start in the capital of the Trikala regional unit in western Thessaly, a town split by the Lithaios river and watched over by a Byzantine fortress with a clock tower. The routes cover the Varousi quarter, the Koursoum Mosque, the Matsopoulos Mill and the rocks of Meteora to the north-west. Greece Tours lists … Read more

Pyli on Kos: The Village and the Ruined Castle of Old Pyli

Kos-Nerantzia Castle-Baum-01ASD

Pyli is an inland village on the green lower slopes of Mount Dikeos, near the centre of Kos, about 15 km from Kos Town. It stands apart from the beach resorts, built around a natural spring shaded by old plane trees, where a stone fountain and tavernas mark the village square. Above the modern village, … Read more