Description

Akrovatis Cretan Restaurant

At Papafi Street you will find a graphical place serving delicacies that smells Crete. This is Akrobatis Cretan Restaurant, who is waiting to introduce us to the authentic Cretan gastronomic culture. Apaki, snails (hohlioi), wedding pilaff (gamopilafo), tsikalates potatoes and many other dishes with plenty of raki will make you realize that the distance from Thessaloniki to Chania, Rethymnon and Heraklion is smaller than it seems.

Akrovatis Cretan Restaurant
They use pure products of small family businesses, which retain the taste and character of Crete all these years.

ABOUT THESSALONIKI

Thessaloniki (520 km. north of Athens) is the second largest city of Greece and the most important centre of the area. Built near the sea (at the back of the Thermaïkos Gulf), it is a modern metropolis bearing the marks of its stormy history and its cosmopolitan character, which give it a special beauty and charm.

Take a tour in the centre of Thessaloniki and plan to visit its nearby destinations.

Monuments
Thessaloniki, with its host of Byzantine monuments (due to it’s significance during the Byzantine period), justifiably is considered an open-air museum of Byzantine art. Wandering through the city, it is worthwhile to see:

The churches of Acheiropoietos (5^th century) a three-aisled, timber-roofed basilica, the Holy Wisdom of God (Hagia Sophia) (7^th century), the Panaghia (Virgin) Chalkeon (1028), Hosios David (12^thcentury), St Panteleemon (late 13^th or the early 14^th century), is of four-columned cross-in-square type, Ayioi Apostoloi (1310-1314),Taxiarches (14^th century), Panagouda a three-aisled basilica with significant icons, Agios Ioannis Prodromos (Nymphaion),Vlatadon monastery a 14^th century foundation of which only the katholikon and two cisterns within the precinct survive, Ayios Demetrios a splendid basilica dedicated to the patron saint and protector of the city, etc.