The modern-day city of Xanthi allows disparate worlds to coexist. Modern buildings, crowded squares, urban hubbub, fading manor houses, stone-built cobbled streets where the images, sounds and smells of the east and west come together.

Living in Xanthi itself is a pleasure but at the same time, if you make use of the good regional road network and within some very short distances, you can explore the exceptionally beautiful countryside, both along the coast of Thrace and in the densely forested mountains of Rodopi.

A walk along the cobbled streets of old Xanthi is a charming experience. Byzantine monuments and Christian churches can be found among Muslim neighbourhoods and mosques. Xanthi is a city that unites its inhabitants, Christians and Muslims, and places no barriers to the daily interactions of its people. The old tobacco factories and neoclassical mansions, although scarred by time, are still standing, monuments of the past.

As a city, it conjures up bewildering images of West and East, a student city full of life and much entertainment, full of hotels for the thousands of visitors who are passing through or choose to stay awhile to admire its attractions. There are many excursions to choose from in the countryside of Thrace, which offer a great variety of holiday experiences in the region.