Acontisma
Acontisma or Akontisma, also called Hercontroma or Herkontroma, was a settlement in ancient Macedon near the border of Thrace on the coast and on the Via Egnatia, 8 or 9 miles eastward of Neapolis, on a pass of the same name.
Acontisma or Akontisma, also called Hercontroma or Herkontroma, was a settlement in ancient Macedon near the border of Thrace on the coast and on the Via Egnatia, 8 or 9 miles eastward of Neapolis, on a pass of the same name. Its site has been identified with remains about 2 miles east of Nea Karvali.
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Worth seeing in and around Acontisma
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks
Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks is located in the village of Nea Karvali just north of the Kavala–Xanthi national road, about 8 km from Kavala in Eastern Macedonia, Greece. In this village the local youth founded in 1981 the Nea Karvali House of Culture in order to improve the cultural heritage.
1.4 km · museum in Nea Karvali, Greece · Wikipedia
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Getting to Acontisma
- Airports
- Kavala Alexander the Great (KVA), 10 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 125 km · Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 140 km
- Thessaloniki → AcontismaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Spata-Artemida → AcontismaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Kerkyra (Corfu) → AcontismaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Acontisma
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acontisma. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is possible to reach it by ferry from Lemnos, and several other north Aegean islands.
- Get inWith a bit of careful planning, or aimless wandering, it is possible to reach Kavala from almost any Greek island with a ferry via other islands.
- Go nextThassos can be visited as a day trip from Kavala, but it is worth to spend several days there.
- Go nextXanthi: famous for its carnival and picturesque Old Town Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Island: Reachable by ferry boat from Kavala.
- Go nextReachable by ferry boat via Alexandroupolis Nestos: About 30 km east of Kavala lies the nature reserve of the Nestos river, an area of unique natural beauty and wildlife Serres & Serres (region) is a provincial town on the way to Bulgaria.
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