Volos: Modern Greece
We’re in our fourth port city, having visited Napflino, Kalamata, and Preveza. Napflino contained a deep remnant old Greece with villages of narrow windy stone built buildings, still housing Greeks living a traditional Greek life. Throughout Greece one happens upon these villages often butted up against newer parts of the area or as is the case in Kalamata, Preveza, Athens the city still contains an old town featuring cobblestone streets and stone buildings usually converted into retail to capture tourist income. We’ll visit one such village later today located in the foothills that over look Volos, which is perhaps the most modern city in Greece. Volos is in the Thessaly region, south of Thessaloniki. A port housing 85,000 residents and low in tourism. The city is an industrial center, a bridge between Europe and Asia. It’s modern due to buildings erected after a 1955 catastrophic earthquake. There’s also a university which spawned additional cultural growth. Different from previ...