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2 20 Travelling around Greece June 2022
Edessa is a city of Mace- means fortress, was essen-
donia, seat of the municipal- My place is Edessa tially the first district created
ity of Edessa and capital of in the city as an evolution of
the Regional Unit of Pella in the Byzantine settlement
the Region of Central Mace- that developed in the area of
donia, and seat of the Holy the citadel and the ancient
Diocese of Edessa, Pella city. Its houses and build-
and Almopia. The city is fa- ings, these are popular
mous for its 12 waterfalls. It houses and some man-
was founded in 813 BC. sions, date from the 19th
from the first Macedonian K- century, while they are dis-
ing, Heraclides Karanos and tinguished for the character-
was the first capital of the istic traditional Macedonian
Macedonian Kingdom. It architecture. Two-storey
had a rich industrial past buildings with ledges, open
during the interwar period. covered balcony and tiled
The population of the city of roof, inner courtyard and
Edessa is 18,229. Also until open spaces.
the discovery of the Royal
Tombs of Vergina in Imathia, The mill of Edessa
by Manolis Andronikos Macedonian King of Kara- Varosi A short distance from the
many still believed that the nos where the legendary k- Few, however, know that park of waterfalls we find the
Ancient Goats are located in ing Midas once lived with its Edessa has its own tradi- old industrial water-pow-
the Archaeological site of unique gardens. Today tional district, which in 1983 ered zone of Edessa, known
the city, based on the views Karanos with a height of was declared a traditional as the area of mills. The
of archaeologists. over 70m is located in the settlement. Varosi, which abundance of water in com-
park of waterfalls and with bination with the steep
The Karanos its continuous flow reminds slopes of the ground
waterfall everyone that water is a gave the possibility of
The largest and most source of life of power & de- exploiting the move-
beautiful waterfall Karanos struction. ment of water from an-
is named after the first cient times.
The Byzantine
Bridge [Kiupri]
It is the Byzantine
Bridge, the only one
that has been saved
from the old bridges of
the city and gave its
name to the whole
park. The locals call it
"Byzantine", it is his-
torical and has been
rebuilt many times due
to the destructive pow-
er of the Edessa river.

The archaeological
site of Edessa
[Longos]
Ancient Edessa was
divided into two parts-
levels: the Acropolis,
which was located
high, at the edge of the
rock of modern
Edessa and the lower