With a height of over 1600 meters, Mount Saos is the highest and most impressive mountain in the Aegean. It takes its name from the pre-Hellenic word "samos" meaning height, and it is also known as Moon, since they say the mountain is so high that it hides the moon. On the slopes you can enjoy a walk through endless forests of trees accompanied by the presence of running water. When you are on the mountain, you can rest in the famous natural pools formed by the waterfalls. The view is breathtaking and the ascent, although difficult, is a life experience.

Soufli is 67 km northwest of Alexandroupoli, at the head of the prefecture of Evros. With 4,258 residents, the picturesque town of Soufli gained worldwide fame in the late 19th century because of the incomparable quality of silk which was produced here. The first silk seed arrived in 1839 and gradually more families became engaged in sericulture, the production of silk and the rearing of silkworms for this purpose. Silk production was for decades the most important sector of the local economy, and Soufli became known as the "city of silk".

The archaeological collection is housed in a traditional Symi mansion of Yianneskis family which was given as an endowment to N. K. Pharmakidis, tradesman and vice consul on Symi. It was given to the Greek state by Ariadne B. Pharmakidis and Sevasti N.Farmakidi. In the exhibition you will see a representation of the interior of a Symi house with its dining and living room (furniture, crockery, paintings and photographs of the period), as well as traditional local costumes.

The museum houses the following collections:

In the center of the monastic complex of Panormitis you will see the Byzantine Museum. Here you will also see bottles-offerings that faithful followers left in the sea and hoped they would reach the monastery. One of the most characteristic ones is what came from Leipzig in 1998, with oil, wax, incense and names "for commemoration." There are also items dating back to 1930, a carved canopy of an epitaph of the 18th century, swords and guns and a clock of 1896.