Grevena

Grevena is a city and municipality in Western Macedonia, Northern Greece, capital of the Grevena local unit. The metropolis's current populace is 13,374 citizens. It lies about 400 kilometres from Athens and approximately 180 km from Thessaloniki. The municipality's population is 25,905. Grevena has had access to the Egnatia Odos since the early 2000s, which now connects Igoumenitsa with Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli at the border with Turkey. Mountains surround the municipality, which is located by way of the river Greveniotikos, which itself flows into the Aliakmon. Other large towns in the municipality are Amygdalies and Mega Seirini.

Grevena Municipal Museum is positioned inside the metropolis. The earthquake that came about inside the area on 13 May 1995 was 6.6 at the Richter significance scale, however it triggered simplest cloth damage. The worst hit area became the county of Ventzia. There have been foreshocks of lesser depth that preceded the main earthquake by means of a couple of minutes and warned people. These warnings despatched the populace out in their houses. When the principle earthquake got here, it destroyed nearly all the houses in numerous villages of the Ventzia County – the houses collapsed to the floor – but all of the population were out of doors.