Places to visit in Thessaly, Greece
10 places to visit in Thessaly, Greece, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Meteora, Mount Olympus, Rousanou Monastery and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Thessaly volume.
4 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 3 Famous places to visit · 3 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Thessaly (4)
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Meteora
A cluster of tall sandstone pillars in Thessaly with Orthodox monasteries built on their tops from the 14th century. Six are still active, and the whole area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Mount Olympus
The highest mountain in Greece at 2,918 metres, home of the twelve gods in ancient myth. Its summit Mytikas can be reached by hikers from Litochoro, and the area is a national park and biosphere reserve.
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Rousanou Monastery
An Orthodox monastery, now a convent, near Kalambaka in Thessaly. It sits on top of a rocky precipice more than 415 metres above the Pineios valley floor and is one of the monasteries of Meteora.
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Varlaam monastery
The second largest of the Meteora monasteries, standing on a high rock reached by a long flight of steps. Its church was painted in 1548, and a museum holds icons and manuscripts.
Famous places to visit in Thessaly (3)
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Pelion
A forested mountain peninsula in Thessaly with stone villages, orchards and beaches on the Aegean side. In myth it was the home of the centaurs, and a narrow gauge railway runs from Ano Lechonia.
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Skiathos
A small Sporades island known for more than sixty beaches, among them the long sandy Koukounaries. The main town has a harbour, old streets and the home of the writer Alexandros Papadiamantis.
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Skopelos
A green Sporades island with pine forests, plum orchards and many small chapels. Parts of the film Mamma Mia! were shot here, including the white chapel of Agios Ioannis on a rock.
Hidden gems in Thessaly (3)
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Alonnisos
A quiet Sporades island at the edge of the National Marine Park of Alonnisos, a protected area for rare Mediterranean marine life and nesting birds. Its old hilltop village was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1965, and the new port at Patitiri is the main base.
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Lake Plastiras
An artificial lake in the mountains near Karditsa, also called Tavropos Reservoir and fed by the Tavropos river. It is named after the Greek general and politician Nikolaos Plastiras, who first proposed the dam.
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Vale of Tempe
A narrow, steep sided gorge cut by the Pineios river between Mount Olympus and Mount Ossa. It is about 10 km long and was praised by ancient poets as a sacred place of Apollo.
Collecting in Thessaly
What are the best places to visit in Thessaly?
LOQAH lists 10 places in Thessaly. The best known include Meteora, Mount Olympus, Rousanou Monastery, Varlaam monastery and Pelion. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Thessaly?
10, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Thessaly?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Thessaly before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Thessaly and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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