For an unassuming mountain town of three thousand people to hold one of the best collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greek painting in the country feels improbable, and yet it does. The Averoff Gallery has more than 200 works on permanent display by Lytras, Gyzis, Volanakis, Iakovidis, Parthenis, Maleas, and dozens of others — essentially the entire arc of modern Greek art from the War of Independence to the post-war generation.
The gallery is housed in a purpose-built modernist building near the central square, and the curation is genuinely thoughtful: rooms are arranged thematically (landscape, portrait, scenes from rural life) rather than chronologically. Allow at least 90 minutes; longer if Greek painting interests you.