Modern Velestino was ancient Pherai home to the temple of Ennodia.
It's been called a temple of Zeus but the finds in the museum from this site indicate that this was, in fact, a temple to Artemis.
Our next stop was at a geometric tholos tomb around which a wooden building had been built to protect it.
From there we climbed up the acropolis of the city and had a look at the city walls.
We also came across a beautiful church where services were going on as we passed.
Next we stopped at a little museum in a town called Halos.
Our last stop of the day was at the Lamia museum. Outside is this sculpture of a woman protesting the British Museum's insistence on keeping the Parthenon marbles.
The museum houses beautiful sculpture, mosaics, and pottery from a variety of time periods but we weren't allowed to take pictures inside. No restrictions about pictures outside and the views were definitely picture-worthy.
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