Thrace Location of the Balkan peninsula, located between the river Nestos to the west of Mount Haemus, to the north of the Black Sea to the east and south of Marmara the Bosporus, the Dardanelles Strait and the Thracian Sea. Located in the Balkan peninsula, the Greek Thrace is a geographical region of Greece's northern region. It borders Turkey to the east (the so-called Eastern Thrace), Bulgaria to the north and west by Greek Macedonia The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899) "As a favor, or punishment, he transplanted them from the banks of the Euphrates to Constantinople and Thrace ; and by this emigration their doctrine was..."

Thrace includes three prefectures and one island, Samothrace. Our town is situated in the Easternmost prefecture, Evros

The forest of Dadia In the center of Evros prefecture, 14 km from the small city of Soufli, south-east of the Rhodope Mountains, lies the region of Dadia, a monument of the Greek countryside that is known for its pine forest. In this area live rarely raptors in Europe, as the Black-vulture, Sea- bearded vulture, Levant, Sparrowhawk, etc. The forest of Dadia is a live demonstration of the continuing struggle of nature to give life, despite all efforts of man to wipe everything natural. World renowned for its uniqueness, the forest of Dadia supported by WWF-Greece, the Global Fund for nature as well as programs of the European communities for the protection of Nature

Financially, Evros is a rural area. We cultivate mainly cereals and tobacco, which is world renowned and is one of the greatest sources of wealth of Greece. It has remarkably good husbandry and exploitation of forest wealth.

The island of Samothrace is great for holidays but quite different from the other Greek islands. You see it is quite mountainous and full of trees and forests. Here you can see swimmers in one of the mountain’s lakes ‘Vathres’. There are also small waterfalls!

Ardas Festival In Ardas river every summer since 1995 ​​ the Youth Meeting is held, that is a music festival with the participation of famous artists and young people from Greece and the Balkans. Ardas is a river that flows by our town and eventually joins the –much wider- Evros river.

The New High School serves students from The Orestiada region towns of Nea Vyssa, Kavyli and Sterna. We have 50 students in our school and 16 teachers. We have lessons for 33 hours each week. We also take part in Environmental, Cultural and Athletic events both in national and European projects

Our town – Nea Vyssa Our town lies in the middle of vast fertile fields and by Ardas river. It is a quiet town of about people – one famous ancestor is Constantin Carathéodory (13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) a Greek mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach and had a regular correspondence with Albert Einstein