Days / Nights
10 Days – 9 Overnights
Tour Highlights
THESSALONIKI
VERGINA
METEORA
IOANNINA
VOLOS
ATHENS
Day 1 | Arrival Thessaloniki Airport – Thessaloniki Overnight
Arrival at Thessaloniki airport where we meet with your guide who will give you an overview of the city and its Jewish history on the way to our hotel. Check in and leisure time until dinner. Overnight stay.
Day 2 | Thessaloniki Full Day – Thessaloniki Overnight
In the morning, we begin with a walking tour that includes visits to the Square of Jewish Martyrs and the Ceremonial Synagogue, followed by a presentation at the Jewish Museum. Here, we learn about a once-thriving community that boasted 50 synagogues and was known as the “Mother of Israel,” home to renowned Jewish mystics, legal scholars, poets, and rabbis. Our coach then takes us to Villa Alatini and through quarters of the city that were once entirely Jewish. We continue to archaeological sites dating back to Roman and Hellenic times, including villas once inhabited by prominent Jewish residents. We also visit the new Holocaust Memorial, located on the site of the former Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis – today part of the Aristotle University campus. We return to our hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3 | Thessaloniki Full Day – Thessaloniki Overnight
After breakfast we visit the Archaeological Museum and the famous landmark, the Rotunda, close to each other and the wonderful promenade from which you can take a boat trip, optional, at the end of the tour. Dinner at local taverbna with traditional Greek music. Overnight stay.
Day 4 | Vergina – Veria – Veria Overnight
After breakfast, we head for Vergina where the unearthing in 1977 of the richly extravagant tombs of King Phillip 11, father of Alexander the Great, became as famous as the Dead Sea Scrolls. We continue to Veria where we hear about the town’s rich Christian heritage and absorb its Jewish quarter with its unique setting and the atmosphere that still prevails at the natural river mikva. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5 | Ioannina – Ioannina Overnight
After breakfast, we leave for Ioannina where we have a group lunch under the grand arches of the Stoa Louli restaurant, once a trade centre for Jewish leather merchants. Inside the castle we stroll through the ancient cobbled streets of the former Jewish Kastro quarter and visit the Romaniot Kal Kadosh Yashan Synagogue, where we are shown its unique artefacts. Our guide will show us around the medieval Jewish cemetery which is in a forest. We also have time to walk around the city’s beautiful lake or take a coffee at the lakeside before driving to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6 | Meteora – Kalambaka Overnight
We have a picturesque drive to Meteora site of the famous 14th century Byzantine monasteries, suspended on granite rocks. As well as marvelling at the views we visit two of the monasteries. We stop for lunch at Kalambaka and then we arrive at our hotel. Free evening. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 7 | Volos – Volos Overnight
We set off for Volos which is surrounded by beautiful mountains and looks out on a charming bay. We have a group lunch at an excellent restaurant on the promenade and have time to stroll by the water’s edge. We then walk to a Holocaust memorial and through the Jewish neighborhood to the Synagogue and community center and learn about a community that date back to the 6th century and still has weekly services. Check in to our hotel in Volos. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8 | Volos – Athens – Athens Overnight
We leave Volos to head for Athens. We arrive late afternoon for a tour of the Acropolis. There is also time for our bus to tour the other remarkable sites of the city, Constitution Square with its picturesque guards, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch, the Theatre of Dionysus and the Olympic stadium. Check in to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 9 | Athens – Athens Overnight
After breakfast, we see the Beth Shalom Sephardic Synagogue and the Romaniot Synagogue just opposite. Then we visit the Jewish Museum. Our tour guide will lead us through their excellent exhibits, enhancing our understanding of Greek Jewish history. After this, we will visit the Ancient Greek Agora, the place where was the ancient synagogue of Athens. Dinner and overnight in stay.
Day 10 | Departure Athens Airport
According to the schedule of your flight you will be transferred to Athens Airport.
We present you various proposals of excursions but also we can customize our services “depending on your needs”
