At Kipia Eleftheroupolis opened its doors to the Wax Museum of Theodore Kokkinidi. The greatest figures of Greece and abroad gathered in the same place. Alice Vouyiouklaki, Constantine Karamanlis, Maria Callas, Andreas Papandreou, Madonna, Michael Jackson and other prominent figures. Visit the museum and find yourself face to face with celebrities that have marked their era through ...
The Church of Saint Nicholas, was built on the foundations of the post-Christian basilica (6th c.), which was probably dedicated to Saint Mena. The former church of Saint Nicholas (1759) was destroyed on a fire in 1971 and it was restored, maintaining its remarkable architectural elements. In the churchyard there are the graves of the city"s benefactor of Phrixus Papachristidi ...
Magical itineraries
start from Eleftheroupoli to semi-mountainous or mountainous villages that
embrace nature with all its splendour. There, one comes across samples of
traditional architecture.Eleftheroupoli,
Nikissiani, Paleochori, Moustheni, Messoropi, Podochori and Avli are well
preserved settlements, with architectural styles dating back to the 19th
and to the beginning of the...
Convent, founded on a hill on the western edge of the eastern community of Nikisiani on the east foothills of Pangaio. In this area, since 1913, a honored chapel in the name of Ssint Demetrius was existed. At the initiative of the Metropolitan of Eleftheroupoli Ambrose in 1973 was built a fundamentally new temple with the contribution of residents and Georgios Lazaridis, according to the...
A newly female communal monastery built on the southeastern massif Pangaio, 3 kilometers north of the community of Chrysokastro in the abandoned old village. The construction of the complex began in 1978 with the interest of the Metropolitan of Eleftheroupoli Ambrose, in the same place where residents of Chrysokastro built the church in 1963 dedicated to Saint Panteleimona. To catholic ...
The Ypapanti Monastery is located in the old village of Chortokopi (25 km from the city of Kavala). The monastery is Old Calendarist and belongs to the Diocese of Eleftheroupolis....
Near the town of Eleftheroupoli and on foothills of the verdant village of Nikisiani, there is the communal androa Holy Monastery of Saint John the Baptist. In the place where the monastery is today, there was an old shrine for hikers pilgrims heading to the nearby historic Holy Church of Eikosifoinissa (which falls under the ecclesiastical Metropolis of Drama). In 1972 in the place of ...