Still persecuted by the rain, but at least lucky in that it was not Monday, day of closure of all the city’s museums, we decided to take advantage of the weather to visit first the ethnological museum, which really deserves to be seen, then the cave of the dragon, that has some interesting peculiarities and finally the municipal aquarium that since the rain did not stop, at least gave us a roof for at least another half hour!
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Kastoria, city on the lake
Kastoria is a small and quiet city in northern Greece, built on a peninsula on Lake Orestiada at about 700 meters above sea level. Well-known, unfortunately, for the production of fur, it is definitely worth a visit to appreciate the architecture of the old quarters as DolciĆ², its more than fifty Byzantine churches and not least, the lake with its nature.
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Gavros, another ghost town
An oddity, nothing important and probably totally not worth it for a stop… unless you’re a photographer or just curious! Gavros is an entirely abandoned village on the road that connects Prespa lakes to Kastoria and I was attracted to it like a magnet.
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