In an early-autumn scenery we welcomed our British guests from the Rambling club of Cyprus (csrc.ws) to hike the mountains of the Greek region of Central Macedonia. After visiting the city of Serres that hosted us for most of our stay and discovering its interesting byzantine and ottoman monuments, the first hiking day found us […]
By the end of May we had the pleasure to welcome again our guests from Belgium for the tour of Macedonia. Small, beautiful and luxury hotels, excellent restaurants and numerous experiences like local wine tasting, local traditions and folklore, beautiful natural landscapes put together a really unique program, capable of leaving lasting memories. We feel […]
La settimana dal 29/05 al 03/06 l’abbiamo spesa coi nostri amici di Bologna, del gruppo ArteViaggi Bottigiani, che dopo la scoperta della Macedonia e parte della Tessaglia dell’anno scorso hanno voluto approfondire ulteriormente la storia e la civiltà della Grecia. La strada quest’anno ci ha portati in Tracia; terra bellissima, ma sconosciuta; dal grande interesse […]
Built between mount Smolikas and mount Tymfi, Konitsa seems captive of these two rocky giants. Yet, the small passage where the city stands made its fortune. The city of Konitsa lays at the edge of a small plain, fertilized by the three rivers crossing the region. Well protected and difficult to reach, the city used […]
Kastoria is a small, peaceful, picturesque town of western Macedonia region, in Northern Greece. Built on a peninsula on the homonymous lake, Kastoria hides a fascinating history and many interesting curiosities. The lake settlement of Dispilio gives an idea of the first residents of the region in the inhospitable environment of the lake. The fist […]
Thessaloniki, capital of Norther Greece, has alwas been a crossroad of various civilizations: Classical Greece met here with Romanity; Byzantium gave its place to Ottoman empire. Thessaloniki has been the shelter of the Jews who fled Spain after the Reconquista in 1492 and came here to fertilize the city with their culture. Serbs, Bulgarians, Armenians, […]
