On the foothills of mount Ismaros and in a large area you will meet the ancient settlement of Maroneia. Its history starts from the Helladic era and reaches up to the byzantine period. According to history, this powerful city was founded in the 7th century B.C by Maronas, who was a priest for god Apollo. You can visit different parts of the...
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A city with two names. On the road from Komotini towards Xanthi and after the village of Iasmos you will meet the impressive wall of the ancient city. During the 6th century B.C it was named after the emperor Anastasios I, who fortified the city because of its strategic location near the Egnatia road. In the scripts dating back to the 9th...
Another town that although had her name changed, kept her vital importance during the centuries. During the ancient times it was named Pezoule, in the roman-paleochristian era Maximianoupolis, in the middle-byzantine-post-byzantine era Mosunoupolis and finally in the post-byzantine years it was named Messine Kale. It was raided many times...
This Macedonian tomb that dates back to the 4th-3rd century B.C was found in 1984 near the village Symvola. Although the findings in it are nothing but a few due to past robberies, they are enough to give us an insight into the interior of the tomb. The underground tomb consists of two rooms and a road. There is a smaller room before the main...
This byzantine baths have been found near Mischos in mount Papikio. They consist of six rooms with brick-paved floors. There was a room before the main body, a changing room and four rooms with baths. In the main bathing room the water varied according to its temperature. The archaeologists found that the water was heated with hot air and not...