Car Rental Kavala Airport

Kavala is an impressive city in Central Macedonia, in northern Greece. With some 70,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest city in this part of the country after Thessaloniki. Kavala was established in the sixth Millennium BC and came in over the years by noted in the adjacent Pangaion to prosperity.168 BC, the town was granted town rights.

In the course of its history, Kavala was under the rule of the Ottomans, Byzantines, Romans and decorative vein. Many impressive buildings in the city are still witnesses of these eras. Among other things extremely picturesque is the Kamares, a Roman aqueduct, which reconstructed the magnificent by Suleiman in the 16th century, on the edge of the old town of Kavala.

Worth seeing are the old Turkish quarter with its steep streets, but also the Castle from the Byzantine period, which was built around 1600, the Panagia. Very Oriental appears to also the Imaret with its many domes and courtyards. But also for the Christian Church, Kavala has a unique meaning, because in the year 49 Paul of Tharsus on land involved, to found the first Christian community in the 20 km distant Phillipi on the European mainland. The ruins of the city, in the amphitheatre still today regularly shows ancient pieces take place, are within easy reach with a rental car.

The port of Kavala, the starting point for the ferries to Thassos is picturesque and Samothrace. Kavala is still by the Venetians, who built a postal station on the Via Egnatia, a strategically important road that connected the Borsporus to the Adriatic Sea, here. Cavallo is the Italian word for horse.