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Thassos Greece
Places worth visiting

Thassos Greece is not just a greek island but the essence of Greek life.

There are so many traditional greek spots here that will captivate your imagination and take you to places you never knew that still existed.

MUSEUMS:

The Museum of Polygnotos Vagis, in Skala Potamia
Vagis born in 1892 is a worlwide artist that came from Thassos. He moved to New York at the age of 19 when the island was still dominated by the Turks.

Vagis managed to keep alive his artistic roots that connect him with the classic ancient Greek sculpture. On 1933, at the age of 41 years, he settles in Long Island of New York and has an extraordinary productive period. He develops a personal style of expression proceeding more and more with the removal and simplicity and gets condescended among the pioneers of modern sculpture art.

He gets out in nature, goes for strolls to beaches and forests and collects his materials, stones, pebbles, granites and woods. He works now with the technique of "direct sculpture", intervenes namely only marginal on natural matter until he will release from inside it the figure he imagined that is inherent: a fish, a bird, a mood, a man, a women universal figures and pan archaic symbolisms.

The archaeological Museum of Thassos Greece has collections of unique wealth and variety from the 7th century BC up to the 7th AD

The Folklore Museum of Limenaria is located at the building of the old Community, in the center of Limenaria , and it is operated by the local cultural association "KASTRO", since 1991. In the first room, you will see various old objects, such as tools of traditional professions (barber's, carpenter's, tailor's, apiarist's, lumberjack's, wine producer's, baker's) utensils of the household, a loom with all its elements, many types of hand-woven materials and traditional costumes of Thassos.

The second room houses a big collection of historical photographs of Limenaria and Thassos, as well as a gallery with sculptural, woodcut and mosaic work by Kostas Lovoulos, hagiographies by Dimitris Varias, ceramic by Kostas Hrysogelos and paintings by Vasilis Halkias. As a warm "welcome", you will be treated with thassian traditional sweets.

The folklore Museum of Theologos.In Theologos you will see the mansion of Chatzigeorgis the Thassian chieftain, a marvelous complex of buildings that is now the cultural association's folkloric museum. The museum of Theologos is really interesting and whorth your visit

The Folklore Museum of Kallirachi is lodged in a very beautiful preservable mansion built in 1880.
The interior arrangement and furnishing look precisely like a traditional house of that time, including the wooden "hagiati" (balcony), viewing the sea, two bedrooms with fireplaces and woodcut wardrobes, a small kitchen and a room where the women of the house used to wove at the loom and embroider. The "katoi" (cellar) was useful for the storage of oil and other goods, but also for the housing of domestic animals, during the winter period.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES:

There are so many archaeological sites in the city of Thassos with lots of interesting monuments. They are almost everywhere you turn and look at.

Aliki beach has lots of ancient and medieval monuments

The “Kastri” in Potos where exists Necropolis and a settlement

These are some of the places for the real traveller. Don't just sit in a resort. Explore the place, become one with the locals.Go to differnt Thassos beaches.

Getting to know Thassos Greece will have you thinking. The role of the island in Greek History was vital and after lots of hardships it is now again regaining its former glory in the midst of nature.

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Thassos GreecePlaces worth visiting

Thassos Greece
Places worth visiting