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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece and capital city of Central Macedonia's administrative district, bearing all the structures that constitute a modern urban center, with a population of over 1,200,000 residents in its Regional Unit. Additionally, its port being the second largest commercial port of Greece, and its location, closed to the Balkans, between the East and the West, are significant factors that contribute, both to its economic growth and its cosmopolitan characteristics. The European Centre for the Development of Vocation Training (Cedefop), the Commercial and Development Bank of Euxinus Pontus are both based in Thessaloniki, together with the Institute of Paternal Studies of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
It is a welcoming, relaxing city ready to spoil you by its countless visiting options, being full of life, day and night, due to its thousands of students studying in its universities. In contemporary Thessaloniki, you'll come across with history, art and different cultures of 2,300 years of the city's history, you'll have the chance to taste its rich gastronomic tradition, with a reputation far beyond the Greek borders, you'll relax on the beautiful coast watching the sun disappear in the Aegean sea and you will let yourself in the evening rhythms of a city where the nightlife ends just before the first light of day!
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Meteora
The Metéora, literally "middle of the sky", "suspended in the air" or "in the heavens above" - etymologically related to meteorology) - is a formation of immense monolithic pillars and hills-like huge rounded boulders which dominate the local area. It is also associated with one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second in importance only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural conglomerate pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains, in central Greece.
Metéora is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria.
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Edessa
Wealth and natural beauty, archaeological and historical heritage mountain Pella attract you. Flooding life and vitality is Edessa with the famous waterfalls rivers, the waters, the natural environment and the traditional windmills, ideal base for trips to the ski resort Voras- "Kaimaktsalan", one of the highest peaks of Greek, one of the airfield the first in Greece and most prestigious in Europe, the track Moto Cross race, the spa fair center with thermal mineral Loutraki, Ancient Edessa in Longos, with parts of the medieval walls and the Monastery of the Trinity and what As two lakes nature reserves, wetlands of Agra island-Vrytton and Vegoritidas.
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Vergina
Vergina is a small town in Makedonia in Greece and her population is 2000 inhabitants. Vergina was the first capital of Macedonia. in Vergina exists tombs of macedonian kings and among of them, the tomb of king Fillipos B', father of Alexander the Great
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