Hair - this is a great seaside town located in central Greece.They live 141 thousand inhabitants. Hair City is very popular with tourists, so his visit comes in many promotional tours in Greece. Both in the city and its surroundings you can see many interesting places and tourist attractions. In addition, the hair is not very far (in 326 kilometers) from Athens, so you can quickly and easily get there.
As evidenced by the statistics, Hair is the fourth largest city in Greece. In addition, it is the capital and administrative center of the large province of Thessaly - the largest agricultural region of the country. Volos port city is also one of the largest and most important in the country. Interestingly, the hair, inter alia, is one of the youngest Greek cities - it was radically rebuilt after an earthquake in 1955.
In general, the modern city of Volos was founded as recently as the first half of XIX century. First, there was built a defensive fortress, and then a large commercial port.However, in ancient times to the present location of Volos there for three cities - Demetrias, Iolk and PAGASA. In the vicinity are the ruins of Volos oldest settlements of the Neolithic - there you can see the remains of the acropolis, the walls of the palace, as well as ancient tombs.
is believed that this ancient settlement existed in the years 4000-1200 BC. Later there were settlements of the Byzantines, and in the first half of XV century, this area was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, who built the port and fortifications. By the time the development of modern Volos in its borders (1841) in its place was a small Turkish village.
City Hair is located in the Gulf of Pagasitikos, from all sides it is surrounded by low mountains.This location provides both the city itself and its surroundings a special microclimate.Hair is usually characterized by warm, sunny and windless weather, except for a pleasant sea breeze. Therefore, the city of Volos is a very popular resort, much love to rest both locals and foreigners alike.
Among other things, the city of Volos has a very distinctive architectural building and a small (but interesting) historical city center, which was partially rebuilt after the devastating earthquake of 50th years of XX century. It is interesting that already in 1882, Hair has its own original construction plan, which linked two of the major part of the city - the Castle and Nea Maghazi. As for the architecture of the historic center, the bulk of this form of the building, built in neoclassical style.
In additionbeautiful architectural monuments of great opportunities for beach recreation, and many other pleasant things, Hair also offers tourists everything you need for this educational cultural experience. The main and most popular museum is the Archaeological Museum of Volos. There you can see a lot of variety of exhibits of different ages, most of which were discovered during archaeological excavations in Thessaly.
There is a lot unique ancient Neolithic objects, including reconstruction of houses of that time. Also, tourists love to visit the museum of contemporary history of the town, an ethnographic museum and a museum of insects. Of course, sightseeing rest on Rhodes in the spring allow you to see at least the various monuments and attractions, but city and hair will not leave you indifferent .