Trikala Sights

 The Mill of Elves is the biggest, free of charge, Christmas theme park in Greece, is organised in Trikala.
The Mill of Elves has been giving away millions of smiles via its free of charge activities and countless daily surprises.
This is how the story began…. It was December 9, 2011, when Santa Claus transformed the Mill of Matsopoulos in Trikala into Greece's largest Christmas theme park, called the "Mill of Elves". Almost immediately the old chimneys started and have been working steadily ever since, with the sole purpose of giving joy to the young and old alike.

 The castle of Trikala is located at the north-eastern side of the town. According to Prokopios, it was built by the Emperor Justinian I (6th century) in the place of the ancient acropolis of Trikki. 

The old town is composed of Varoussi and old Manavika districts. Varoussi is located on the outskirts of the Fortress. During the Ottoman occupation it was a Christian district. Until the 1930’s Varoussi was the district of mansion of Trikala and today it is protected of laws about preservation o old houses.

A jewel of architecture and a symbolic bridge value. The central pedestrian bridge of Trikala is the main connecting point of the city, joining the trikalians, making it the reference point, acting as a point of unity.

Since the end of 1888, when the construction was completed, the bridge was the trademark, precisely because it was the one, the large, the central bridge. French engineers, from the company that built the Thessalian Railroad, edited study, design and construction.

 The Prison Band, near the Mosque, for more than a century is linked to the history of this town. In addition, except of criminal prisons, it was also used as a detention facility for political prisoners in several cases of our country’s political history, but also during the German occupation. In 2006 the prison were closed and the housing of the “Research and Creation Center – Tsitsanis Museum” was decided to open.

  The Municipal Folklore Museum of Trikala was founded in 1991. It is housed in a preservable building on 6 Garibaldi str. The building constitutes an excellent sample of the urban architecture and is still a monument of the local history. The objects of the collection come mainly from donations of Trikala residents that also founded the Association of Friends of the Museum. The collection covers chronically the period from the end of the 18th century until the mid 20th century. 

Ancient Trikki, an important city of the Thessalian tetrarchy of Estiaotida, sprawled between the Lithaios river – which still crosses today’s modern city – and on the hill “Kastro” where probably the ancient citadel was. In the city there was one of the oldest medical centers of Asclepius, that ancient Trikki was known in antiquity. The earliest proof about Trikki is in the Homeric List of Ships, which mentions that the city participated in the expeditionary force of the Greeks in the Trojan War with 30 ships and leaders of the two sons of Asclepius, Mahaonas and Podalerios, who had been taught Medicine by their father. For the beginnings of the city of historical times the excavations are poor and the written sources sparse.