30 Facts About Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 330 kilometres north of Athens and 220 kilometres south of Thessaloniki.

Volos is the only outlet to the sea from Thessaly, the country's largest agricultural region.

Volos is the newest of the Greek port cities, with a large proportion of modern buildings erected following catastrophic earthquakes in 1955.

Volos participated in the 2004 Olympic Games, and the city has since played host to other athletic events, such as the European Athletic Championships.

Volos hosted the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics from 27 July to 5 August 2013.

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Volos' municipality includes both towns, along with many nearby villages, including Makrinitsa and Portaria.

Volos is a major commercial port of mainland Greece in the Aegean sea, with connection by ferry and hydrofoil to the nearby Sporades Islands, which include Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonissos.

Volos first appears again in 1333, as one of the cities captured by the Byzantine general John Monomachos in Thessaly, under the name "Golos" .

Volos was incorporated into the Greek Kingdom in November 1881 with the rest of Thessaly.

Volos was occupied by Ottomans on 8 May 1897, during the Greco Turkish War.

Volos is well known for its assortment of mezedes and a clear, alcoholic beverage known as tsipouro.

Municipality Volos was formed at the 2011 local government reform by the merger of the following 9 former municipalities, that became municipal units:.

Province of Volos was one of the provinces of the Magnesia Prefecture.

Volos is the administrative centre of the Magnesia regional unit.

Volos, having a Csa Mediterranean climate, typically experiences neither particularly high nor extremely low temperatures throughout the year.

Volos was once characterised by a number of old mansions, the majority of which were destroyed after the earthquakes in 1955.

The faculties of Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Agricultural Sciences with their twelve departments are based in Volos, emphasising the academic, economic and cultural development of the city.

Volos is one of the most industrialized provincial cities of Greece, because of its strategic location between the largest population centers of the country and its port.

Volos is active in the research sector, hosting the Institute of Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology, one of the five Institutes of the Center for Research and Technology – Hellas .

Today, Volos has the third-largest cargo port in Greece, carrying agricultural and industrial products.

City of Volos has always had a major role in the financial, economic, commercial and administrative matters of the region of Thessaly and Central Greece, due to the strategic position of the city's port, unique between Athens and Thessaloniki.

Wider region of Volos is a place rich with history, finding the first signals of culture in the Neolithic period.

Volos is a candidate city for the European Capital of Culture title 2021.

One of the main characteristics and most widely known specialities of Volos is its traditional drink, tsipouro, and the seafood that is served accompanying the drink.

Volos, taking advantage of its physical setting by the sea, has a significant presence in Greek sporting history in the areas of rowing and sailing.

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Additionally, Volos has clubs and facilities in several sports, including football, basketball, volleyball, tennis and horseriding.

Since 2004, Volos's facilities have hosted significant sports events, such as 27th European Championship of Artistic Gymnastics in 2006, the FIBA European Youth Championship, when Greece won the gold medal, and the Finals of Greek Football Cup, in 2007 and 2017.

Volos is linked through Greece's E75 Highway Axis with Northern and Southern Greece.

Volos is the first city in Europe to feature Seaplane Services through Argo Airways, which is based in Volos.

Volos is directly linked with Athens once per day, with Thessaloniki twice per day, and with Larissa 15 times a day.