Sights in Alexandroupoli
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Ethnological Museum of Thrace
The traditional customs of old Thrace come alive at the Ethnological Museum of Thrace. Housed in a mansion built in 1899, the museum is divided into rooms, each devoted to a specific topic, ranging from traditional costumery and musical instruments to oil presses, a dye-room and sweet-making equipment. The accompanying texts will tell you, among other things, how many silkworms it takes to make 25g of silk and which Greek sweet is made by slamming the ingredients against a wall.
If you are travelling further in Thrace, the friendly staff can outline the most interesting sites. There's a small café out back.
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Ecclesiastical Art Museum of Alexandroupoli
Priceless icons, many brought by refugees from Asia Minor and Turkish Thrace, are exhibited at the Ecclesiastical Art Museum of Alexandroupoli. The museum, which also boasts early printed Greek books, is in the grounds of the Cathedral of Agios Nikolaos, which itself houses a miracle-working 13th-century icon of the Panagia Trifotissa, brought from Aenos (Enez in Turkish) on the other side of the River Evros.
The story goes that by praying before the icon, villagers whose eyes had been damaged by the glare of sunlight reflected on the salt marshes around Aenos had their vision restored.
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