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CULTURAL HERITAGE OF VOLOS

 

Ever since the city of Volos began to prosper, there has been a merked interest in archeological research throughout the region.

Objects originating fron the famous prehistoric sites of Dimini and Sesklo illustrate the neolithic cultures which grew up at the innermost recess of the Pagasetic Gulf and Thessaly. Clay statuettes and utensils of the geometric period shed light on the times which are related of in the legends of the Expedition of the Argonauts and Homer's epics.

In Volos Archaeological Museum, a neoclassical building dating from 1907, are displayed Sculpure from the classical period and rare jointed statuettes side by side with reliefs of the Alexandrine period from Demetrias.

 
 
 

Reliefs from the early Christian period and Byzantine stone reliefs are evidence of the continuity of the Latin influence on Mt. Pelion.

In the Anavros park, on the seafront opposite the Museum, the centuries old tradition in the plastic arts is continued by a representative sample of works by modern sculptors.

 

Following a period dominated by the motor car, slowly but surely the railway, linking Volos with other large towns throughout Greece, is being modernßsed. The picturesque statßon of Evaristo De Chßrico, whose architecture recalls the Balkans, Orient Express and Central Europe, is fillßng once again with travellers. New, modern and comfortable railway carriages carry the passenger direct to Athens and Salonica. It is planned to reopen the renowned "Pelion mini railway" as a tourist attraction and once again '¼ld smudgy", with his steam engines repaßred, will set ïut from the city.

Travelling a verdant, dreamlike route over sturdy iron and stone bridges spanning deep gullßes and gorges, he will arrive at the romantßc little stations of the villages of Mount Pelion which are impatiently awaßting his familiar whistle...

 
 
 
 
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