The old town in Stavros in 2025, Greece

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For the last several years, every summer I go at least for a while to Stavros, a small town in northern Greece. This year it was my first summer vacation. I spent 10 days there in July with my family.

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We go to Stavros most often because of the Greek godparents who baptized our daughter and whom we love very much, we have become great friends. And of course, because of the beautiful Aegean sea, especially in the surrounding area.

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And because of the delicious food and Greek specialties such as shrimps or mussels saganaki. 😊

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The place I like to visit the most while we are there is the old town of Stavros, known in Greece as Ano Stavros.

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Everything is always the same there, but it is experienced in a different way every time.

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It is peaceful and during the day the locals are mostly not on the streets because of the warm weather, but go out later. There are a lot of old people with a cheerful spirit who like to hang out with their friends and always have a reason for gatherings and small celebrations.

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I love the blue color of a special shade that can often be seen in Greece and is particularly beautiful there.

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When you continue to walk a little above the old town of Stavros, you come to a beautiful viewpoint of the whole town and it is one of those moments that is worth experiencing every time you are in this place.

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There is also a restaurant, so you can refresh yourself. My kids especially love coming to this place so we stopped by on our last day before heading back. And this time too we took with us beautiful memories from this town, like every year before.

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Thank you for reading.

Jelena

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Hi @jelenaa I loved getting to know Stavros through your beautiful photos. best regards 🤗

I am glad that I managed to present it in a nice way, thank you 🤗

A few years ago I only had heard about Santorini as a tourist atraction, but each passing year I find Greece - other places of Greece - as interesting as other europeans destinations. Just a few days I watched Before Midnight (again) and watched recently How to have sex and other movies filmed in Greece. And now I ran into your post and I'm really considering going there.

Do you mind me asking where are you from? I mean, in your experience, Stavros is a city for an english speaker to go on vacation? I don't know any greek and I ususally travel by myself, do you think I'm gonna be fine over there to interact with the locals?

Thank you for sharing.

There are many more beautiful places in Greece than Stavros, actually the whole of Greece is beautiful and I love it very much. I'm from Serbia and a lot of Serbian tourists go to Greece for the summer, so even they have learned a little bit of our language and we also learn Greek 😊, so we can communicate easily. Sometimes I speak there in English and we also understand each other, so the language will not be a problem, don't worry. Greeks are very hospitable, they have a wonderful sea, delicious food, I'm sure you'll love it 😊

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