The Acropolis watches over award-winning restaurants and rooftop bars, ancient ruins sit next to concept stores, and centuries-old neighbourhoods keep reinventing themselves - this is one of the world's oldest capitals, and still one of its most modern.
A busy port city on the Gulf of Patras, with the Rio-Antirrio Bridge rising in the distance and a medieval castle above the Upper Town's winding streets - every February, the whole place turns into one of Europe's biggest carnivals.
Built along the sea at the crossroads of East and West, in Northern Greece, Kavala climbs from a working harbour through its historic quarter to a hilltop Byzantine fortress, with sweeping views over the Aegean.