Beneath the peaks of Falakro, running waters, towering trees covering the springs and streams, calm rhythms of life in the neighborhoods and parks, hospitable and pleasant people compose the image of the city located in the heart of the prefecture, the starting point for most excursions into the countryside.
Its habitation is lost in the depths of prehistory.

It is worth seeing the city's archaeological museum, where local history unfolds from its earliest beginnings (5.000 BC) to liberation (1913), the ecclesiastical museum, the remains of the city's medieval walls, the devout church of Hagia Sophia (10th century), the old Metropolis and the schools of the Greek Orthodox Community of Drama, the listed buildings, Tzimos mansion (Taxiarchia), the former Anastasiadis residence ("Marble House").