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Extract from the Kavla Travel Guides:
Backing onto the easterly foothills of Mount Symvolo,
KAVLA
is the second-largest city of Macedonia and the second port for northern Greece. Although its attempt to style itself as the Azure City, on account of its position at the head of a wide bay, is going a little overboard, it does have a characterful centre, focused on the nineteenth-century harbour and old tobacco warehouses. A picturesque citadel looks down from a rocky promontory to the east, and an elegant Turkish aqueduct leaps over modern buildings into the old quarter on the bluff.
Known in ancient times as Neapolis, the town was for two centuries or more a...
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