Open hours  Daily except Monday: 08:30-15:00

The Folklore Museum of Chalkis was founded in 1981 by Evia Studies Company and the Municipality of Chalkis. It is housed in three halls of the historic castle Negroponte. It houses more than 1,200 artifacts, precious handmade objects and objects of daily life of past eras that no longer exist nowadays.

When you enter the museum you will watch a ten-minute documentary that will take you back in time. The museum is painted in deep blue that will make you feel like you are in the sea. The welcoming guides will show you the thousands of exhibits and will explain things like how to cultivate pearls and where each fossil was found.

Open hours

1/6- 31/10: Daily 10:00- 14:30 & 18:00 - 21:00

1/11- 31/5: Daily 10:00- 14:30

In this museum you will find fossils from 6.5 million to 9 million years back. 24 different species (from felines to mammals) were found in Kerasia region in the last 50 years and their fossils are exhibited in this museum. Among the most intriguing are the hyenas, the three-toed horses but also animals resembling small giraffes. Also, you will see skeletons and bones of animals, fossils and photographs. This is a well-organized museum worth visiting.

Open hours  Daily, except Monday: 10:00 - 14:00 & 17:00 - 20:00

The ruins of ancient Eretria are scattered beneath the modern city. Among the ruins you will find the Temple of Apollo, the House of the mosaics, the Dome and the most important monument, the ancient theater.

The location of the Castle is related to the ancient city Kanithos as traces of buildings and tombs have been found there, on the soil surface. The hill was fortified for the first time during the Roman period, but was definitely not fortified during the Byzantine period, the Venetian period and the first centuries of the Ottoman rule. The fortress that we see today was built by the Turks in 1684, in order to protect Chalkis from the Venetians. It was designed by Venetian Gerolimo Galopo based on European standards.