Karlovasi

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• The Karlovasi Street Art Festival has helped put this northern Samos port town—home to three Aegean University departments—on the art map, drawing fresh attention beyond its commercial and industrial roots.

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• The 2nd Water Sports Event at Karlovasi packs in a triangle sailing demonstration and race, a swimming race and sport fishing, then an August 8 evening festivity with local artists and a full-menu, free-wine ticket.

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• Omio shows ferry tickets from Samos to Karlovasi starting at $87 (€70), with same-day average fares around €70 for the crossing.

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• Greece’s Culture Ministry has launched restoration work on the Panagia Church in Karlovasi as part of more than €10 million in Samos projects that also reopened two major historic monuments.

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• Karlovasi’s early-1900s boom as a tannery and tobacco manufacturing center left a legacy of magnificent neoclassical mansions and the remains of large stone-built factories along the Ormos seaside.

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• Dionysos Restaurant on Karlovasi’s Plateia 8is earns a 4.4-out-of-5 rating from 183 Tripadvisor reviewers and ranks #68 of 382 restaurants in town.

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• The Karlovasi Athletic Association is hosting a Traditional Festival on August 5 at 8.30pm in Paleo Karlovasi, with the Yiamei Brothers Orchestra and a €15 entrance that includes food and wine.

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• A Samos earthquake injured eight people and hit old houses hardest in Pythagorio, Karlovasi and Vathy, where part of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Karlovasi collapsed while nobody was inside.

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