Vistonikos Bay

The Thrácian Sea

Channel entrance, Porto Lagos Vistonikos Bay is a place where land and sea interlock: coastal lakes, lagoons, sandbars and shallow channels form a single wetland complex, with Lake Vistonida at its heart and the Porto Lagos lagoon system at its edge. In antiquity, “Bistonis” (Lake Vistonis) lent its name to the Bistones, a Thracian people…

Avdira

The Thrácian Sea

Avdira, harbour Avdira, known in antiquity as Abdera, lies in western Thrace, within today’s Xanthi regional unit, close to the mouths of the Nestos and the northern Aegean Sea. Its position among coastal lagoons, alluvial plains, and shifting shorelines proved both an advantage and a challenge: sediment carried by the river continually reshaped the landscape,…