Its Kale

Ioannina


If you prefer your mansion life in serene, modern neutrals, check in to this seven-room hotel just steps from the citadel gate. Beds are fluffy, and the breakfast is grand. The lounge has a glass floor, Acropolis Museum–style, revealing the ruins of an ancient well.


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Nearby Ioannina attractions

1. Its Kale

0.08 MILES

A more heavily fortified section within the Kastro, the Its Kale (Inner Castle) today feels less like a citadel than a city park. Inside the ramparts, on…

2. Silversmithing Museum

0.11 MILES

Although the centre of Ioannina no longer rings with the distinctive tapping hammers of the city's famous artisans, that sound and their trade are…

3. Municipal Ethnographic Museum

0.11 MILES

Set inside the Aslan Pasha Mosque (1619), the museum exhibits local costumes and period photographs, along with tapestries and prayer shawls from Ioannina…

4. Byzantine Museum

0.11 MILES

This museum presents early Christian and Byzantine art, pottery, coins and silverware, plus post-Byzantine icons and manuscripts, early Venetian-produced…

5. Kahila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue

0.19 MILES

Open only by appointment, this temple, built in 1829, is nonetheless worth scheduling ahead if you're interested in Ioannina's deep Jewish history…

6. Historical Museum of Ioannina

0.23 MILES

This small private museum has some beautiful objects and gives a concise overview of the city's colourful history, with special attention to Jewish and…

7. Archaeological Museum

0.47 MILES

This museum digs deeper into history than many others in Greece, staring in the ice age, with such relics as 120,000-year-old fossilized rhinoceros teeth…

8. Moni Filanthropinon

0.83 MILES

This monastery, active at least since the 13th century, bursts with flowers and is tended by kindly nuns – in stark contrast with its church, in which one…