The Museum of Byzantine Culture invites you on Thursday, 22 October at 7:00 pm to the opening of the temporary exhibition “Olympos. Earth, People, Light. Photographs by Satsi from Post-War Pieria.”
The exhibition includes black-and-white photographs by the photographer Savvas Tsilingiridis (Satsi), which present the topography and the human activities of the Mount Olympus area during the first decades after the Second World War. The photographs include landscapes of Olympus, the mountain of the Gods, as well as pictures of the people and their activities, such as ploughing with oxen, harvesting with sickles, weaving on the loom, the sheepfold and cheese-making.
The photographer Savvas Tsilingiridis (Satsi), born in 1924 in Fatsa on the Black Sea, settled with his family in Katerini in 1929, where he also completed secondary school. He gave up his medical studies to devote himself to photography, apprenticing with leading photographers of his time. Besides the photographs he took to earn a living, with his lens he captured nature, the landscape, the people and their daily occupations, with respect and sensitivity, leaving us exceptional records of life in the last century as well as rare images, such as the area of Dion before its excavation.
This exhibition is particularly timely, as very recently, on 26 July 2026, Olympus was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a mixed property, in one of the most demanding categories, whose inscription requires simultaneous documentation of both its cultural and its natural values.

Exhibition duration: 23 October 2026 to 10 January 2027
Exhibition venue: “Eftychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou” Hall
Free admission.

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