Metalia Beach

Top choice in Thasos


Easily accessible on foot from Limenaria, this pretty cove features an elegiac retro-industrial sight in the form of a mining factory built by German entrepreneur Speidel in 1900. The ruins form an amphitheatre around the beach, with a colonial-styled green administrative building, sadly abandoned, towering above the headland.


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