--- title: "Acontisma – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Acontisma, Greece: Acontisma or Akontisma, also called Hercontroma or Herkontroma, was a settlement in ancient Macedon near the border of Thrace on the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/acontisma" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/acontisma.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Ancient settlement in Macedon · Greece # 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. The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acontisma), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Historical 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_and_Ethnographical_Museum_of_the_Cappadocian_Greeks) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Acontisma **Airports:** Kavala Alexander the Great (KVA), 10 km · Plovdiv (PDV), 125 km · Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG), 140 km\ - Thessaloniki → Acontisma Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/thessaloniki-to-acontisma) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Thessaloniki&to=Acontisma) - Spata-Artemida → Acontisma Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/spata-artemida-to-acontisma) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Spata-Artemida&to=Acontisma) - Kerkyra (Corfu) → Acontisma Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kerkyra-corfu-to-acontisma) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kerkyra+%28Corfu%29&to=Acontisma) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Acontisma) Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in It is possible to reach it by ferry from Lemnos, and several other north Aegean islands. - Get in With 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 next Thassos can be visited as a day trip from Kavala, but it is worth to spend several days there. - Go next Xanthi: famous for its carnival and picturesque Old Town Lemnos and Agios Efstratios Island: Reachable by ferry boat from Kavala. - Go next Reachable 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. From [Wikivoyage: Kavala](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Kavala), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Thasos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/thasos) GR 10 ways of moving, 17 sources 26 km 2. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 92 km 3. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 143 km 4. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 397 km 5. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 442 km If you know how people move in Acontisma – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cacontisma&title=Acontisma&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Facontisma), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Acontisma - [Nea Karvali](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nea-karvali) town in Kavala, Greece 1.6 km [The place page for Acontisma](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/acontisma) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Greece](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/acontisma, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt