Travel Blog Greece

Chaintou Mountain is at an altitude of 1.828 m in the area of Gyftokastro, close to the Greek-Bulgarian borders.

Livaditis is the highest waterfall in the Balkan Peninsula.

Basmas tobacco, especially the aromatic type cultivated in the Xanthi Highlands region, is considered one of the finest tobacco varieties.

The Old Town of Xanthi is widely known for its unique architecture of the 18th century and Byzantine churches.

The Carnival of Xanthi began in 1966, including today music, theatre, dance, lectures, presentations, visual screenings and more activities.

The hot springs are 40 Km from the city of Xanthi, in Thermes village, close to Bulgaria.

Democritus [460 BC – 370 BC] was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher known for the formulation of his atomic theory of the universe.