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Farsala

City with 9870 inhabitants, at the end of the Thessalian plain, 46km south of Larissa, famous because of its peculiar type of "halvas" (kind of Turkish sweet with sesame and honey). Significant commercial center. Built on the natural way which connects Thessalia with north Greece, Farsala is the passing from south to north and because of that it frequently became field of historical conflicts, of which the most significant is this that occured in BC 48, between Julius Caesar and Pompeius, known as "the battle of Farsala". Tradition connects Farsala with the Homeric Fthia and it seems that Farsala reached its highest point of bloom in the 5th BC century. It was also flourishing during the next century, because of king Philip the second, who reward the city as an exchange for the help that it had offered to the conquest of Thessaly. Farsala preserve a lot of ruins of its historical past. According to one acceptation, it is motherland of the ancient Greek hero Achilles.

Worth seeing places:

Ancient Farsala, where Julius Caesar won Pompeius in BC 48 and the Archaeological Collection with inscriptions and statuettes of the Classic and Hellenistic Times.

In the suburbs of Farsala, there are places of archaeological importance: the ruins of the ancient city of Paleopharsalus, the temple of Agia Parascevi, "Nymphaeo" cave, which was place of worship of the deity Panas and the Nymphes, and the prehistorical vaulted tomb at the west end of the city. On the mountain of "Kynos Kephales"(="Dog Heads"), two significant battles of the ancient times occured. The things found by the excavations in the area of Farsala are exposed in the museums of Volos, Almyros, Delfi and Louvre in Paris.

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