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Sotirelis Olive Oil Museum
Also in Panagia is a small museum where you can delve into one of the island’s oldest industries. Beautiful, gnarled old olive trees sprout on all corners of Thassos, and before olive oil production was modernised in the 20th century there used to be an olive mill in every village. At this museum you can […]
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Panagia
A few kilometres in from Golden Beach on the northeast coast, Panagia is a sweet mountain village with typical houses that have schist roof tiles and wooden balconies and verandas. Tightly packed onto steep ground 300 metres above sea level, Panagia was built away from the coast as a safe haven from pirate attacks and […]
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Archangel Michael Monastery
The largest monastery on Thassos is a cliff-top convent on the southeast coast. There has been a religious presence here since the 12th century when a hermit constructed a small church, supposedly at the command of the Archangel Michael, the patron saint of Thassos. The monastery was founded a century later but was abandoned during […]
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Archaeological Museum
Limenas has one of the foremost archaeological museums in East Macedonia and Thrace. There are 18 galleries in this extensive building with collections spanning more than 3,000 years from the Neolithic Period to the 7th century AD. One of the most exciting early finds are a Neolithic clay amphora and a Cycladic plate with Bellerophon […]
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