Thessaly
Thessaly is a region in central Greece that has unique holiday destinations such as the Meteora monasteries, Mount Olympus, the Pelion peninsula, the Northern Sporades island group, and the beaches of the Olympic Riviera.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Larissa and Volos.
Larissa
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Larissa, has a population of 162,591 people. It is the 4th largest city in Greece, and is in Thessaly, between Athens and Thessaloniki. A lively agricultural and university town, it is visited by few tourists.
Volos
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Volos is a city of 86,000 people in Thessaly, almost midway between Athens and Thessaloniki. Volos is an industrial city with a large port, but there are a few hidden gems here that you might find as you pass through to islands or Pelion.
Meteora
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The monastery-crowned pillars of Meteora are among the most striking geological and cultural gems of Greece. The formation consists of a number of steep and narrow rock pinnacles near the town of Kalambaka in northwestern Thessaly, topped with a total of 24 monasteries, 6 of which are still in use and open to visitors.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Magnesia and Trikala.
Magnesia
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Magnesia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Thessaly. Its capital is the city of Volos. About 70% of the population of Magnesia live in the Greater Volos area, which is the second-largest city in Thessaly and the third busiest commercial port in Greece.
Trikala
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Trikala region is in Greece. The main tourist destinations are Meteora and the city of Kalambaka, the city of Trikala, the city of Pyli with its unique bridges and monasteries, the traditional settlements of the Pyli mountain range, as well as the ski resort that operates in Pertouli.
Larissa
Larissa is the biggest prefecture of Thessaly, Greece. The tallest mountain in Greece, Mount Olympus is in the northeastern part of the region.
Karditsa
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Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa regional unit of the region of Thessaly.
Kalambaka
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Kalambaka is a city of 11,500 people in the Thessaly region of central Greece, at the base of the Meteora monasteries. This is the hub of tourist services for the mystical clifftop refuges that loom above it.
Plastira Lake
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Lake Plastiras also called Tavropos Reservoir is an artificial lake fed by Tavropos river, located in Karditsa regional unit, near the city of Karditsa, Greece.
Thessaly
- Type: Region with 722,000 residents
- Description: geographic region of Greece
- Also known as: “Thessalia”
- Categories: historical region and traditional geographic divisions of Greece
- Location: Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Thessaly” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Thesalia”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θεσσαλία”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θεσσαλίη”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θετταλία”
- Aragonese: “Tesalia”
- Armenian: “Թեսալիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Fessaliya”
- Basque: “Tesalia”
- Belarusian: “Тэсалія”
- Belarusian: “Фесалія”
- Bengali: “থেসালি”
- Breton: “Tessalia”
- Bulgarian: “Тесалия”
- Bulgarian: “Тхесалй”
- Catalan: “Blaquia”
- Catalan: “Megaloblaquia”
- Catalan: “Tesàlia”
- Catalan: “Tessàlia”
- Cebuano: “Thessaly”
- Chinese: “塞萨利”
- Chinese: “忒萨利”
- Chinese: “忒萨利亚”
- Chinese: “色萨利”
- Chinese: “色薩利”
- Chuvash: “Фессали”
- Croatian: “Periferija Tesalija”
- Croatian: “Tesalija”
- Czech: “Thesálie”
- Czech: “Thessalie”
- Czech: “Thessálie”
- Danish: “Thessalien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tesalya”
- Dutch: “Thessalia”
- Dutch: “Thessalie”
- Dutch: “Thessalië”
- Esperanto: “Tesalio”
- Esperanto: “Tesalujo”
- Estonian: “Tessaalia piirkond”
- Estonian: “Tessaalia”
- Faroese: “Thessalia”
- Finnish: “Tessalia”
- Finnish: “Thessalia”
- French: “Thessalie”
- French: “Théssalie”
- Galician: “Tesalia”
- Georgian: “თესალია”
- German: “Thessalia”
- German: “Thessalía”
- German: “Thessalicum”
- German: “Thessalien”
- German: “Thessalier”
- Greek: “Θεσσαλία”
- Gujarati: “થેસાલી”
- Hebrew: “תסאליה”
- Hebrew: “תסליה”
- Hindi: “थेसली”
- Hungarian: “Thesszália”
- Icelandic: “Þessalía”
- Ido: “Tesalia”
- Indonesian: “Thessalia”
- Indonesian: “Thessaly”
- Irish: “An Teasáil”
- Italian: “Tessaglia”
- Italian: “Tessalia”
- Italian: “Thessalia”
- Japanese: “セサリア”
- Japanese: “テッサリア”
- Japanese: “テッサリアー”
- Javanese: “Selânik”
- Javanese: “Tesalonika”
- Javanese: “Thessaloniki”
- Kannada: “ಥೆಸ್ಸಲಿ”
- Kazakh: “Фессалия”
- Korean: “테살리”
- Korean: “테살리아 주”
- Korean: “테살리아”
- Latin: “Thessalia”
- Latvian: “Tesālija”
- Limburgan: “Thessalië”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Tesalia”
- Lithuanian: “Tesalija”
- Lithuanian: “Tesalijos periferija”
- Lombard: “Tesalia”
- Lombard: “Tesàlia”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Tesalia”
- Macedonian: “Тесалија”
- Malagasy: “Tesalia”
- Malay: “Thessaly”
- Marathi: “थिसलीस”
- Mingrelian: “თესალია”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tessalia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessali”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessalia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessalía”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessaliar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thessalier”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thessalia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thessalía”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thessaly”
- Norwegian: “Thessalia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tessàlia”
- Persian: “تسالی”
- Polish: “Tesalia”
- Polish: “Tessalia”
- Portuguese: “Tessália”
- Portuguese: “Tessálios”
- Romanian: “Tesalia”
- Romanian: “Tessalia”
- Romanian: “Thesalia”
- Romanian: “Thessalia”
- Russian: “Тессалия”
- Russian: “Фессалийский союз”
- Russian: “Фессалия”
- Scots: “Thessaly”
- Serbian: “Periferija Tesalija”
- Serbian: “Tesalija”
- Serbian: “Θεσσαλία”
- Serbian: “Периферија Тесалија”
- Serbian: “Тесалија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Periferija Tesalija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tesalija”
- Sinhala: “තෙසලේ”
- Slovak: “Tesália”
- Slovenian: “Tesalija”
- Slovenian: “Thessalia”
- Slovenian: “Thessaly”
- South Azerbaijani: “تسالی”
- Spanish: “Periferia de Tesalia”
- Spanish: “Tesalia”
- Spanish: “Tesaliano”
- Spanish: “Tesalio”
- Swedish: “Tessalien”
- Swedish: “Thessalia”
- Swedish: “Thessalía”
- Swedish: “Thessalien”
- Swiss German: “Thessalie”
- Tamil: “தெஸ்ஸாலி”
- Telugu: “తెసాలీ”
- Thai: “เทสซาลี”
- Turkish: “Tesalya”
- Turkish: “Teselya”
- Turkish: “Thessaly”
- Ukrainian: “Салоніки”
- Ukrainian: “Фессалійці”
- Ukrainian: “Фессалія”
- Urdu: “ثیسالیا”
- Venetian: “Tezaja”
- Vietnamese: “Thessalía”
- Vietnamese: “Thessaly”
- Waray (Philippines): “Thessalya”
- Welsh: “Thesalia”
- Western Panjabi: “ثیسالیا”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ تھیسیلے”
- Wu Chinese: “色萨利”
- “Tesalia”
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