Attractions and Accommodation Karditsa

Karditsa is approaching 40,000 residents and is the fourth largest city in Thessaly. Seat of the prefecture is the commercial, administrative and cultural center of Thessaly.

Today the visitor will see the Karditsa a modern city, busy with polite people with good street plan, nice buildings, shops, sports facilities adequate for whom it is known the city of Karditsa and squares and spaces where young and Older people are crowded together and create a pleasant and cosmopolitan character of the city.

Sights and important parts of Karditsa

• Liberty Square is the central square of Karditsa, with many shops and one hallmark of the new fountain, the work of sculptor Nellas Gkollanta and other statues which give the Muses Erato, Thalia and Clio, and the grace Aglaia.

• Square National Resistance, known as Courts Square, has the Courthouse that dominates this place. It has been recognized by residents as a recreation area and meeting and plenty of cafes that serve the area to visitors, giving a special climate and predispose to enjoy the continuous motion (perantzada)

• The Hall of Karditsa is at the junction of Ezekiel and A. Papandreou.

• The historical "popular library" housed on the second floor of the hall of Karditsa. From the first years of operation has created a lending department, reading, educational and artistic department, night studying poor and illiterate, he established the feast of Anthesteria holding since 1931, etc.

• The striking neoclassical at the junction of Karaiskaki Blatsouka is the hotel "Arni". Creator of the Constantinople in 1921. Tertipis, brother of Demetrius tricks, one of the pioneers of the revolution of 1878.

• The marble bust of the hero of the revolution of 1821 George Karaiskaki in front of the shopping center nearby Arni.

• The building of the Municipal Market (New Market) at the end of the street Valvi is a jewel for the city of Karditsa. This is an architectural monument of European importance.

• In the basement of the Municipal Market houses the Museum of Photography and Film eschis Karditsa. Visitors can admire wooden cameras and projectors in the past, various types of negatives, photographs and postcards of Karditsa and the region since the late 19th century. Continuously organized competitions and given lessons in the art of photography.

• The famous park is at the beginning Pafsilipo Street Ezekiel. It's a beautiful space, able to give a pleasant feeling to our guests, a great green lung and an oasis on hot summer days. Over the years Pafsilipo limited to 50 acres since it was created in the south of the square Plastira.

• In the square now stands the statue of Nicholas plastira the sculptor Stelios Triantis, which was erected on the initiative of the Union of Scientists from Karditsas.Apenanti Pafsilipo park on the road is St. Constantine the Town History - Folklore Museum "L. & N. Sakellariou "- Documentation and Communication Center (city museum).