Didymoteicho Greece anna traveler


It is a city of Thrace with 9263 inhabitants It is located 85 km from Alexandroupolis and 2 km from Turkey
In 1341 John VI Kantakouzinos was crowned emperor in Didymoteicho Didymoteicho has shown important Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman monuments Bayazit Mosque (Mehmet I) was built in 1367, is considered one of the largest mosques in Europe
It has been preserved since 1946, its walls are 2.5 m wide. Its peculiarity is due to its frescoes with the celestial city as in Islam no graphic representations are allowed

Other attractions of the city are The church of Agios Athanasios in 1834 that was built on the site of a Byzantine church The church of the Savior Christ in 1846 which was also built on an earlier church Church of Agia Aikaterini which is a 14th century burial chapel of the Palaeologan era, next to the church there are carved tombs on the rock

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