Alexandroupoli

Capital: Alexandroupolis is the capital of the Prefecture and named after its founder Alexander the Great, with its port and airport it is an important commercial, economic and tourist centre for the region. Some good examples of late 19 th century architecture in the town includes the building of the old Zarifeios Pedagogical Academy.

Places of Interest in the City:

The emblem of Alexandroupolis is the large lighthouse, constructed by the French ‘Lighthouses and Beacons’ company in 1st June 1880. 

The Leontarideios School building is home to the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Metropolitan See of Alexandroupolis and Samothraki, with a collection of post-Byzantine icons, liturgical implements and relics, vestments, woodcarvings and historic documents from the region of Evros, and Eastern Thrace.

There is also the Angela Yiannakidou Thrace Collection, housed in a neo-classical building dating from 1899, once the home of the Chrysostomos family. The collection is of ethnological interest and contains such items as agricultural implements, traditional costumes, liturgical implements and relics, tools and machinery used in traditional crafts.

The Association of Antiquity and the Cultural Heritage, has a specially designed exhibition centre. This is the venue for various exhibitions, including displays of works of art and other cultural events.

The capital of the district named after the Alexander the Great and founded in 340 BC. To the east of the town are the ruins of Mesambria and can just be seen through the vegetation. At Makri one can “ Cyclops Cave ” as the local have called it, they say the cave has never been explored and has been used as a shelter in the Neolithic times.