International Museum Day Events

Saturday, May 18, 2024, 11.00 a.m.

Tour of the impregnable Gynaikokastro Fortress.

Refering to its strategic importance, to its walls and buildings, to the fictional Maroulia and to the people of its post-Byzantine settlement, enriched by the information offered by the occasional excavation and restoration works, we will tour the premises of the impregnable Byzantine fortress of Gynaikokastro, which was an important outpost for the northern defense of the co-regent Thessaloniki.

Meeting point: Paleo Gynaikokastro, EFA Kilkis guard place, at the foot of the Byzantine castle

Sunday, May 19, 2024, time 11.00 & 12.00

Tour from the ancient "European city" to the Ottoman mausoleum and the Christian church of Messia

• 11.00 a.m. In Messia, in the mausoleum (turbe) of a Muslim saint (baba), which, with respect to its history, today functions as a Christian church of Saints Constantine and Helen, we will tell the story of a monument from the countryside of ancient Evropos until nowadays.

• 12.00 a.m. We will tour the archaeological site of the "European City", the birthplace of Seleucus I Nicator, the greatest of the successors of Alexander the Great, getting to know the hill of the ancient city, and its southern necropolises with important burial monuments from the late classical period up to the early Christian era (4th century BC to the 6th century AD).