A Journey Across Macedonia | The Other Side of Greece
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- After exploring some of the Greek islands for a couple weeks I caught a flight to Thessaloniki, rented a car and went on an epic road trip across Macedonia in northwestern Greece. You can watch Part 2 here: • Traveling to Vikos Gor...
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The churches in Greece are so unbelievably beautiful!!!
99.9% of tourists go only to Athens and the islands but there is sooo much more in Greece to explore....
they go to northern Greece as well (Macedonia, Thrace) mainly people from Balkan countries and then some Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Ukrainians and maybe some others.
@@mlks007... Russians, Bulgarians, Serbians, Albanians, Romanians...
Η αλήθεια είναι πως δυστυχώς η χώρα μας είναι τόσο όμορφη παντού που δε ξέρεις που να πρωτοπας
Greece is way more than just barren islands. And while you are navigating through the northern part, if you happen to stay the night at Kavala, Xanthi, Komotini, Serres, or Larisa, you wouldn't believe the evening life that's taking place there
YOU HAVE WALK WHERE PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER THE GRATE WALKED , GLAD YOU VISITED, SALUDOS
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@@GabrielTravelerVideos thanks for sending me this link. saludos
Veroia, Naousa and Vergina should definitely be on your journey. Won't regret it.
I love Macedonia it is so beautiful, you see i am from Crete , which is so very different from Macedonia. I love the richness of the Macedonian nature. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Such a shame that ottomans destroyed masterpieces inside that church, it infuriates me and im not even Orthodox or Greek. It's not just religion, it's an important part of human history that was destroyed. Thessaloniki and Edessa have some of the most beautiful churches i've ever seen.The waterfalls and cave you've seen are so beautiful. Both cities are definitely worth to visit.Thanks for the video.
If the ottomans pissed you off this much curious how you feel about the crusaders sacking many. Many Greek churches including sacking of Constantinople. They destroyed relics and a lot of history throughout the region. Or how about the Roman’s and what they did to history. 🤔
Oh wow, did they do that? Strange that they don't ruin them in Istanbul for example. How many mosques have the Greeks left behind in Greece from, say, the 1600s
@@Tosunceand/or synagogues.
@@Tosunce Ottomans came to our land, occupied, enslaved us and destroyed our places of worship like this church and you are here wondering why we may have shown the same level of respect when they finally left? But ok let's say it was wrong, you shouldn't have done that and we shouldn't done that either. It was in the past and mistakes were made, but riddle me this why in the year 2024 Turkiye decided that a world heritage monument like a byzantine monastery should be turned into a mosque?
There was a time in the Orthodox Church where iconoclasm was embraced and was later refuted. Iconoclasm refers to the belief that it's important to destroy icons or images, usually for religious or political reasons. The term originated from the Byzantine Empire, where there was a conflict between those who supported religious icons and those who opposed them. So, it's equally possible that iconoclasts within the church itself damaged those.
I hope Gabe will take time to explore more of mainland Greece as well. As always your videos are greatly anticipated and appreciated
Gabriel becoming more and more greek each time he visits Greece
He sold his $oul!
He used to be fun!
Now he sounds like commercial!
How beautiful is Northern Greece. Edessa is like a time capsule, so full of history. Lovely caves and waterfall and ornate amazing churches. Loving this road trip. Can’t wait to continue the journey. ❤❤
Ελλαδα μου Πανεμορφη και χιλιοζηλεμενη💙🇬🇷💙🇬🇷💙🇬🇷💙
Hi Gabriel I was a bit worried when you hadn’t posted a video for a couple of days I thought that was the end of your journey through the islands so glad to see your still in Greece so as I have never been to the mainland this will be interesting 🙏👍🏴
The background music with this vlog is really moving especially inside the buildings. Wow.
Beautiful waterfalls too! Thank you for sharing. It’s surreal to see so many places that you share, living vicariously thru you.
The Greek churches were beautiful
A visit to Veria , Naousa and Vergina is a MUST !!!! If you go to Castoria you MUST go to Nestorio village.
If you have time visit the new museum at AIGAI - Vergina, just opened, about the Mathedonian Kings. Also Platamon castle near Katerini by the sea is very impressive
There was actually a clip while I was walking through the town to the waterfalls in which I talked about how my original plan was to head straight to Vergina, then I saw the signs for Edessa and decided to go there first. But I didn't include that clip in the video. The plan now is to stop at Vergina on my way back to Thessaloniki.
A friend of mine was there last week and said it is a must see museum
Welcome to Kastoria Gabriel. Christmas season is obviously the best time to visit here, but spring and summer are nice too, with lush greenery everywhere. It's unfortunate that the weather has been bad these past few days, but then again rain and fog are part of Kastoria's charm, much different than the dry and hot islands most tourists are used to.
Welcome to Macedonia Gabriel, the homeland of Alexander. I enjoyed the music you are editing over the video, it adds up some magic :D
Hell yeah! I visited Thessaloniki last year, can't wait to explore more of Macedonia!
THE CATHEDRAL IS AMAZING. GREAT VIDEO, YOU DESERVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS, SALUDOS
Beautiful video and nice thumbnail! Coming from north Greece but living abroad, I am so glad to watch this video. I always suggest to my foreign friends to visit this part of the country. I think it is underrated and people are always amazed whey they visit it. I come from the northeast part (Thrace). I hope one day you visit this part as well, especially the old town of Xanthi, unique in the whole country. safe travels!
The old town festival of Xanthi on first week of September is amazing!!! So is Carnival season in early March. The beaches are wonderful and not chocked up by tourists, the award winning winery is also fun!
The Ottomans being iconoclasts due to Islam (an aniconic faith) usually tried to destroy the Christian icons or frescos in the Churches they captured. They aimed specifically at the eyes of the saints or Christ, the icons depicted
Oh wow, did they do that? Strange that they don't ruin them in Istanbul for example. How many mosques have the Greeks left behind in Greece from, say, the 1600s
Religion of peace they say. Same story in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia...
@@Tosunce A few, why? Why should the Greeks respect the culture of their oppressors? The Ottomans were occupiers who forced their foreign culture into the country they conquered. Did the Ottomans show any respect to the churches they conquered in Anatolia? Just last week, the Medieval Greek Orthodox monastery of Chora in Istanbul, was made a mosque! A monastery more ancient than the Turkish presence in Anatolia! The current Islamofascist regime in Turkey, turned a UNESCO world heritage site into a mosque!
@@Tosunce why should there be any mosques in Greece in the first place...
That's right, icons not frescoes
I Gabe my grand father was from litochoro at the olympus mountain , it is the highest mountain in greece. It is not to far from where you are. You could visit it nice place for hiking😊
Northern Greece looks amazing, Edessa looked so interesting, bet you wish you could have spent more time there
I hear Kastoria, Florina, etc. are gorgeous places to visit! Northern Greece is different than the southern part. Can't wait to see more of your videos from there.
Absolutely amazing churches in different ways, one sadly vandalised but you can still see the beauty of what was a beautiful building. And the second church words fail me, I could feel the peace as if I was there in person. I feel very envious of you Gabriel, but thanks for taking me and other followers along without moving from their chairs or sofas. Cheers.
The only true Macedonia. Thanks for showing that to the world
See....? See what you foreigners and tourists miss?
Greece is not only Mykonos and Santorini and a few other islands...(but i guess you already know that since you traveled in most of them already...😂)
I guessed you read one of my older comments from another video of yours about Dispilio.Did you see in the museum the tablet with the oldest Greek letters they ever found in Greece?
Edessa is called the city of waters for obvious reasons and is one of the most beautiful cities of Macedonia region of north Greece.Sooo much of history from the Macedonian dynasty.You recorded for us to little of those beautiful waterfalls😢
Another beautiful city is the one of Kastoria.A city builded around a lake and since you are on your way to go there i cant hardly wait.I like to travelling to those cities during winter season because with christmas decoration and the swow is like a magic fairytale...
So glad finally a big youtuber discovered Edessa. It has this and so much more to explore here. I'm saying it over and over but there is a lot more in Greece than just the sun and the sea.
That is another AWESOME thumbnail pic!! Really enjoyed the music choices- ALWAYS spot on with what you are showing; you create the mood and atmosphere perfectly. Bravo! 👏
The cave and waterfall are crazy cool! I love traveling with Gabe!
Thank you for showing beautiful Edessa😍I was there in a road trip in 2017, what a nice city, I didn't even know about that gorgeous old church! The nature in Northern Greece is VAST as you can see from your road trip so far. The reason there's so few towns is because the population density in western Macedonia and Epirus is one of the lowest in Europe😆Since you're heading westwards I highly recommend the Dragon Lakes; Tymfi, but especially Smolikas. It is for the adventurous but your mind will be blown. There's many beautiful cities and towns all across Macedonia, Epirus, and even heading south towards Sterea Ellada, look up the city of Messologi, it has a very long (and very tragic) history 😢
You have to consider that early Christians either demolish or built on top of the ancient temples or even use the materials for their own use.
Wow this is an amazing side of Greece that I've never seen 😍 ❤🥰🙏🇬🇷
Gabriel eat there some "bougatsa" made from phyllo pastry and usually containing semolina custard (sweet), but also in North Greece salty such as cheese or spinach or mincemeat,.North Greece is famous for the special phyllo of bougatsa.
Thank you, Gabe, for presenting and appreciating a less known part of my country. I hope you made it safely to Kastoria.
Wow the waterfalls were amazing and the cave
Gabriel your videos of Greece are so exceptional i give you Arista!! We watch with such a pleasure! You are exploring my country better than the locals! Keep up your great work!
Thank you, Gabriel for the beginning of a new series of Journeys. A very interesting video! You are right saying ''the other side of Greece.'' Northen Greece has its charm. I am eager to see next videos! Travel safe and successfully!
GLAD YOU ARE IN MACEDONIA I REALY ENJOY THERE I WILL RETURN. ENJOY . SALUDOS
Edessa my hometown ,καλωσηρθες !
Nice town. 😊
Όλη η βόρεια Ελλάδα είναι πολύ όμορφη !!!
In just one day (or one video) Gabe ''proved'' that Greece is NOT a dry barren boring island (that's ONLY the Cyclades group of islands
"dry barren" doesnt equal boring. The Cyclades are definitely not boring.
Greece is beautiful and always will be the most beautiful country with beautiful ppl 😊🙏🥰🇬🇷
I used to work in Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis (2017-2020). Northern Greece (Macedonia and Thrace) are great and much calmer to live - and to work - there! Enjoy your travels!❤
Gabriel The prononciation of the tone EDESSA is the tone on the first ÈDESSA.
Wow!!!!! Adessa is gorgeous!!!
Edessa*
Gabe---So happy to hear you say your plan is to stop and explore the little towns. Big cities are all the same to me. The little towns and villages are so unique, and interesting. We get a slice of the authentic life of the country and the people of the land. . Fascinating ♥ I don't know if many other people do this--but I constantly pause the video in many places--to get a good long look at different things.
Hi Gabriel, that was spectacular the church and waterfall. I do remember when you went to Meteora but I forget which monastery you visited I'm sure you didn't visit all of them. I'm not sure you will visit the Vergina Royal Tombs believed to be the tomb of King Phillip the ii. The Vikos Gorge looks spectacular hopefully the weather will be decent.
DEFINITELY go to Naoussa ( town and Agios nikolaos park ) , the tomb of Vergina , and POZAR Baths. Naoussa used to the the Paris of East europe, before her economic downfall
You can go to the picturesque city of IOANNINA Ιωάννινα in Epirus. It also has a beautiful lake like Kastoria with a small island in it. And then from there you can visit the famous archaeological site of DODONA Δωδώνη which was an oracle like the one at Delphi but even older. It is worth the visit. Enjoy your travels in northern (Macedonia ) and northwestern ( Epirus ) Greece. PS While in Kastoria try to eat Μπουγιουρντί Buyurdi. Spicy and tasty !
wow wow I had to stop half way in to say ~ just incredibly beautiful ~ thanks Gabriel. Back to finish Video. Really love it!
Happy to see you are going to show a little glimpse of the 80% mountains of Greece in following videos as I saw the Aoos gorge in your intro:)
Also. The place Dispilio at tge lake of Kastoria in this video are much more important. Much more important
For 2 reasons:
1. They found the Dispilio tablet here which is the oldest linear writing found on earth dated to 7300 years ago.
Its predating ealiest Egyptian proto hyroglyphics and ealiest proto Cuneiform by over 2000 years.
2. And secondly.
They found obsidian in this place from the period of 9000-7000years. And obsidiannis ONLY found in Milos island, 600km south in the middle of the Aegean. What this means is that 8000 years ago the peoples of Greece had extendsive trade that connected the people around the mainland and islands.
So its 2 very importany things about then place Dispilio
That is beautiful, the cave with the waterfall 😊❤
... and there is only one Macedonia and it is greek... so, you parked your car in the greek style 😅oh yes, we do have our own style of parking!!🤣the ottomans aimed basically the saints'eyes on the frescoes in the churches, unless they were too high to reach them. Kastoria is considered the live Byzantine Museum of Greece, thanks to many churches of that period. Parga brother is gorgeous, you'll be thrilled !!!❤Thank you Gabe !!✌✌
👍 👍 👍 ❤for your comment and for the great video Gabriel does!!!
@@mariafentis go when you'll get the chance, it's another aspect of the beauty of Greece.✨❤
Gabriel, thank you for your great videos you are showing us in a very nice way some of the nicest places of this world i think you re one great traveller and waiting more videos from Greece i wish to you always kalo taxidi.
Those columns are inspired from ancient greek themes and others are from ancient temples,which Greeks converted to christian,using the same building materials,due to the high cost of marble..
Love all your Greece videos. Thanks
After the Mars like landscapes in some Cycladic islands,Gabriel shocked with the green landscape😂.
True. 😂
The second church (10:30) is definitely modern. I think it was built in the 1920s, and it's one type of Byzantine Revival that was common in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I've watched a thousand times with you. I liked this thing.
Thank's mate. I really enjoy that part of Greece.
Another Awesome Adventure Thank You Gabriel 🙂❤👍Watching from NB Canada🙂🙂🙂
The wall iconography in the second church is definitely new (i.e. probably 20th century). The temple looks glorious so it must be quite old. Good iconography today is next to impossible to find: it is all quite stylised and is mostly based on quick reproduction techniques, not original artwork. Old iconography, by contrast, has a living, eerie and very ethereal quality: its very purpose is to portray the world beyond the physical, ephemeral one.
Wow - how fantastic!
KASTORIA IS WAITING FOR YOU ANOTHER WORLD
Wow! Those frescoes reminds of the ones in the wooden churches in northern Romania.
The modern part of town reminds me of Bitola just on the other side of the border in North Macedonia.
Vergina definitely and Nymfaio is pretty close! I wouldn't miss these...Ioannina and the amazing Zagorohoria as well. The beauty of the Vikos Canyon is beyond words
The last videos are one better than the other!
What happened to the one before this one🤔
The waterfall reminds me of a video you did in Mx.
Beautiful video.
Interestingly beautiful and different 💫😍
Youre awesome!! Long time follower. Always love your content when i get a chance to watch!
We too were in Thessaloniki in 1990!
Awesome.
Go and Thrace with river Evros...its incredible
I know you have many suggestions but consider to visit Florina and Metsovo, two of the most beautifull winter destinations in Greece.
Actually the correct pronunciation is E-dessa not ed-E-ssa. At this time it is wiser for someone to go to the south to avoid the bad weather, from June to September it is better to visit Northern Greece. I know you have come to Crete but I think you will like the eastern part of it and it was a good choice for this season, we have 30 degrees Celsius here.
Hey glad you made it to my father’s village of Edessa! (pronounced Ethessa)
I think you’d enjoy Volos and the mountains before heading to the island of Skiathos.
The big, beautiful Church in Edessa looks very similar to the Panagia of Agiasos, Lesvos. A beautiful, big Church with similar frescos, furnishings and lights. Well worth a visit, as well as roaming the laneways of the town. Lots of quirky ceramics/pottery shops.
What a thumbnail, Gab! Chic and sleek.
Hello This is where I am from ❤🙏😊
Geia sou Gabriel!
I take the rain and clouds and green over the hot dry clear barren any day!! looking forward to videos, even rainy and cloudy ones!!
There is another "only reason" your travels continue 🙏
You look cool in the thumbnail
What happened to the previous video you made about the flat earth?
Hello. about the weather, I'm currently in Nidri/Lefkada, it's warm here but somewhat mixed weather, there's a fog of haze here. . Good trip. Tina
Forgot to write, if you have never visited, the small island of Meganisi, it is worth a visit. 30 min ferry from Nidri, here you will sail past the island of Skorpios, which you have probably heard of, otherwise try searching for it. Tina
As a Canadian. Hey slick! 🦫🇨🇦🦫🇨🇦🥓🥓🦋🦨🫎
Beautiful green countryside
I was there, very beautiful! Thanks!
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Cool!
Kastoria the Furriers capital of the world at the time with the most US citizens in Greece living there,you are probably in Parga by now cheers,enjoy
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Thank you sooooo much!!!!❤
Surprise twist towards west. Also great places.
The waterfall is not the only one located within urban area in Europe. There is another one in a small town of Jajce in Bosnia.
Oh man, you missed an opportunity to visit Pozar hot springs, the place is beautiful, it's a 40-minute drive from Edessa. FYI the village at 26:00 is called Lehovo.
You should definitely take the old mountainous road from Kastoria to Ioanninna through Nestorio village. A tour to Ioannina would be awesome and maybe visit the Ancient Donona and the wax museum of Vrellis near the town. I made the same trip a week ago, the lamp chops at Konitsa are a must. ;)
It is not true that the only waterfall is in the urban part of the city... In Bosnia, you have a large waterfall in the town of Jajce in the urban part of the city, the strict center....Jajce,Bosnia.
Gabe - Your video from yesterday seems to have removed from your site; am I mistaken? Thanks.
definitely vergina museum and prespes lakes
Power to the People, Right On! ✊
I saw Gabriel filming in Edessa and he pass me in the sidewalk , and i didnt realise he was him until i saw this video,i thought i saw i regular tourist walking... unbilivable!!!
Ha, cool.
God Bless You Gabriel, My Heart filled with Joy & Peace! You took me all the way 1st Century! Edessa one of Jesus Disciples, St Paul time.