The city

Get to know the beautiful city of Volos, the city that ideally combines the mountain with the sea. The coastal front with its cafes and tsipouro bars, which are packed to the brim on every occasion, small or large, and which offer tasting and relaxation lessons to visitors in winter and summer.

The tradition of tsipouradiko probably came to the city a century ago with refugees from Asia Minor, and was gradually perfected, since Volos, with the Pagasitikos and the surrounding seas on one side and the Tyrnavy vineyards on the other, generously had the raw materials, fish appetizers and tsipouro, to slowly evolve a simple daily habit into an experience of high taste and aesthetics.

In addition to the obligatory walk on the beach of Volos, take a walk in Anavros Park, the park with statues, the result of an international sculpture meeting in the city in 1988!

Don’t miss admiring the Volos City Hall, a work of the very well-known and important architect Dimitris Pikionis, who managed to combine the architectural tradition of Pelion in a large functional building that does not betray its volume. If it is open, don’t hesitate to enter the ground floor, from the south entrance, to admire the exceptional engravings of the engraver Tasos.

If you like architecture, some architectural masterpieces are the “Volos Beautification Club”, the (former) “Achilleon” cinema, the courthouse, the Papastratos building, now the headquarters of the “University of Thessaly”, the Cathedral of Agios Nikolaos, the Railway Station, and other old buildings with new uses such as the Matsagou tobacco factory which now hosts the School of Economics of the University of Thessaly, the former Spirer tobacco warehouse, which today houses the Volos urban planning department. the Papantou mansion.

If you like history and ancient things, visit the Athanasakeion Archaeological Museum of Volos, one of the most important in the country, neoclassical, built in 1909 and renovated in 2004, with important exhibits from Thessaly, Sesklo, Dimini, Dimitriada.

Visit the Neolithic settlements of Dimini and Sesklos, the ancient theater of Dimitriada, the archaeological site of Nea Anchialos, the archaeological site on the hill of Goritsa overlooking the city of Volos, with the ruins of an ancient city that even today archaeologists do not agree on which city it was.

For the more recent history of Volos, you can visit the “Volos City Museum”, which, in addition to the permanent exhibits, also hosts various temporary exhibitions.