About Kastoria - presentation, information, photos and recommendations
Kastoria is a wonderful city in northern Greece. Located on the western outskirts of Macedonia's capital city of Kastoria Prefecture, extends its sacred worship places and houses on the west shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by low mountain ridges. Orestiada Lake lies at an altitude of 630 meters above sea level, and is part of a larger platter Macedonian lakes.
With all my heart we can say that the whole town of Kastoria is an "outdoor museum", on any street you go as not having to find a witness not Byzantine or something "old." The city is famous for its large number of Byzantine churches, which still retains them, the architecture of the houses, some of them built in the Ottoman period, and folklore of the area. Kastoria is an important religious center for the Orthodox Church of Greece, being located here and the Metropolitan.
To visit any of Byzantine churches, is needed for a first visit to the Byzantine Museum, located atop the hill where the ancient acropolis. From here, a guide will come to open and this particular churches that wish to visit. Kastoriene most popular churches are: Panagia Kumbelidiki, Nicholas Kasnitzi, Taxiarxis Mitropoleos, Saint Stephen, the Holy Monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa Anargyroi.
Kastoria | Kastoria is a wonderful city in northern Greece. Located on the western outskirts of Macedonia's capital city of Kastoria Prefecture, extends its sacred worship places and houses on the west shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by low mountain
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