Northern Greece
Diversity should be northern Greece's second name – the region stretches across more cultures and terrains than any other in the country. Mighty civilisations, including Macedonians, Thracians, Romans, Byzantines, Slavs and Turks, have left traces here and this is nowhere more apparent than in Greece's second city, Thessaloniki – a magnetic place that breathes history and character, and has the best food in the country.
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- Attraction in GreeceAncient Dion
- Attraction in ThessalonikiArchaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
- Attraction in ThessalonikiArch of Galerius
- Attraction in ThessalonikiChurch of Agios Dimitrios
- Attraction in IoanninaIoannina Island
- Attraction in IoanninaIts Kale
- Attraction in IoanninaMoni Filanthropinon
- Attraction in GreeceMt Olympus
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Northern Greece is the mythical home of the ancient Greek gods where you can go swimming in waterfalls and hike through the world's deepest gorge.
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Northern Greece and beyond
- destinationMacedonia
- destinationEpiros
- destinationThessaloniki
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destinationIoannina - destinationZagorohoria
- destinationParga
- destinationPreveza
