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Background
Patras, the third largest city in Greece after Athens and Thessaloniki, the main port Peloponnesa and important shipping center.This is a busy, lively student city with a very active nightlife, and many bars, cafes, pubs, taverns identity (particularly in the Old City), small shops and stores.
The city of Patra, the capital of the northern Ahayya Peloponnesa often serves as a transit point for tourists travelling to Greece.It can be used to cross over by ferry across the Gulf to the north (soon there will be a two Rionsky bridge, which will connect the peninsula with the mainland) to visit Delphi and admire Mount Parnas.In Patra is known throughout the world-Orthodox Cathedral Andrei Pervozvannogo.The City Museum exhibits are interesting Myceanean culture-funeral gifts, sculpture, mosaics and vases.City inspired poets, and artists, he gave Greece the major political figures and scholars.Patras fundamentally changed, but they still remain one of a select group of cities of Greece with its past, present and future.
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