BUILDINGS WITH A HISTORY
BUILDINGS WITH A HISTORY
The town of Kavala lives to the rhythms of its history, and the visitor can discover hidden treasures at every step in its monuments, sights and tobacco warehouses. Magical corners with buildings that adorn the urban landscape, whole roads and lanes that will transport you to another era, images that jump out of postcards.
Before starting, however, you can already learn something about them…
City HallThe building in which the Municipality of Kavala is housed today is one of the most impressive buildings in...
Learn more- Great Club of Kavala
Founded in 1910 by the Philoptochos Adelfotis Kyrion Kavalas (a women’s charity for the poor) in order to house...
Learn more - Former Boys School – 1st Junior High School
This is one of the three grand Turkish buildings that were erected in the twenty years from 1890-1910, during...
Learn more - Tokos Building
The Tokos Building was built by the tobacco merchant Dimitrios Tokos as his residence in 1879, as can be...
Learn more - Wix Building
This was built in 1906 by the German Baron Adolf Wix as a miniature Hungarian tower, and was used...
Learn more - The Lazarist Monastery
The Catholic Monastery of St Paul in Kavala, otherwise known as the Lazarist Monastery of St Vincent de Paul...
Learn more - Former Girls School of Kavala
This is located further up from the Megali Leschi. Its foundations were laid in May 1891 and it was...
Learn more - Former Courthouse
The building of the Former Courthouse of Kavala is an integral part of the town’s history.
Learn more - Palia Merarchia (Old Division)
This is one of the finest buildings of Kavala. It was built in the first decade of the 20th...
Learn more - Municipal Conservatory of Kavala
The Municipal Conservatory of Kavala is the building with the most obvious neoclassical features (pediments, pilasters, window frames with...
Learn more - Port Authority
The foundations of the Port Authority building were laid down in 1926. Three years later, in 1929, Eleftherios Venizelos...
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