The northern mainland - The Rough Guide to Greece - page 309

Tobacco
Museum

Municipal
Tobacco
Warehouse KAVÁLA

Municipal
Museum

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Archeological
Museum

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Bus
Station

PLATIA
NIKOTSARA

City Bus
Stop

Thássos
Ferry &
Hydrofoil
Dock

PLATIA
DHOXIS

PLATIA
K. DHIMITRIOU

Aegean
Ferry Dock

Zolotas Agency

Citadel

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O Kanadhos
Orea Mytilini
Tembelhanio
To Aralki

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NIGHTLIFE
Café Briki
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Mehmet Ali's House

Statue

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The citadel
Daily: June-Sept 8am-7pm, sometimes closed for siesta; Oct-May 8am-5pm • Free
Wonderful views can be had from the Byzantine citadel , signposted “castle”. You can
explore the ramparts, towers, dungeon and cistern, and in season it co-hosts the
Philippi-Thássos Festival of drama and music in its main court.

The aqueduct
Sweeping imperiously across the traffic in Platía Nikotsára as it enters the centre below
Panayía, the towering Kamáres aqueduct was built on a Roman model during the reign
of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520-66).

The archeological museum
Erythroú Stavroú 17 • Tues-Sun 8.30am-3pm • €2 • T 2510 222 335
Kavála's archeological museum contains a fine dolphin and lily mosaic upstairs in the
Abdera room (when the floor reopens), plus painted sarcophagi in the adjacent section
devoted to Thassian colonies. Downstairs there are many terracotta figurines still
decorated in their original paint and gold ornaments from tombs at Amphipolis.

The Tobacco Museum
Paleológou 4 • Mon-Sat 9am-1pm • Free • T 2510 223 344, W tobaccomuseum.gr
The potentially interesting Tobacco Museum falls down on presentation and the lack of
explanations in Greek, let alone English, though some of the exhibits, including