Museum · Epirus
Archaeological Museum of Ioannina
The Archaeological Museum of Ioannina is the museum of the archaeology of Epirus in Ioannina, on Litharitsia Hill, in a building designed by the architect Aris Konstantinidis.
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Greece•City
Ioannina
Ioannina is a city in Epirus beside Lake Pamvotida, the seat of the Municipality of Ioannina and of the Epirus Region, according to the municipality. XTOUR maps the castle and the Archaeological Museum in the city, and treats Dodona and the Cave of Perama, which lie outside the city, as places for which Ioannina is a base.
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Greece
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City
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Fortress · Epirus
Ioannina Castle
Ioannina Castle (Kastro) is the walled castle of Ioannina, a quarter of the city with its own neighbourhoods and lanes, whose south-eastern citadel is known as Its Kale.
1 km in a straight line
Cave · Perama, Epirus
Cave of Perama
The Cave of Perama is a show cave in Goritsa hill at Perama, a settlement beside Lake Pamvotida in the Municipality of Ioannina, which runs the cave.
4 km in a straight line
Archaeological site · Epirus
Dodona
Dodona is the archaeological site of the ancient sanctuary and oracle of Zeus and Dione at the foot of Mount Tomaros in Epirus, with a restored ancient theatre.
14 km in a straight line
Monastery · Thessaly
St Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery
St Nicholas Anapafsas is a working Orthodox monastery on a narrow rock of Meteora near the village of Kastraki, in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly.
66 km in a straight line
Monastery · Thessaly
Great Meteoron Monastery
The Great Meteoron is the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, a working Orthodox monastery on a rock of Meteora in the Municipality of Meteora, Thessaly, which its own website dates to about 1340.
67 km in a straight line
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Guides to Ioannina
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Travel Guide01
Greece travel guide: choosing mainland and island bases
XTOUR plans Greece around towns and islands rather than regions: Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalambaka, Delphi, Nafplio, Ioannina, Heraklion, Chania, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu Town. This guide says what each base is for, which sites are reached from a base rather than inside it, and which XTOUR guide takes over for each of them.
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Travel Guide02
Greek letters on signs, and why Greek places have several spellings
Greek road and street signs are written in the Greek alphabet, with a Latin-letter line where appropriate, and the official romanization is the Greek standard ELOT 743. This article shows how the letters convert, why one town can appear as Kalambaka, Kalampaka or Kalabaka and one city as Heraklion, Iraklion or Irakleio, and where the official sources disagree.
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Destination information last verified: October 9, 2026
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