The area of ​​Drama could not be characterized as a tourist destination, nor a place with special development, since it remains one of the prefectures that have the highest unemployment in Greece.

And yet, the place that has suffered the most economic blows in the last 50 years - the departure of tobacco shops in the 1970s and 1980s, the extinction of the hundreds of garment factories that have been exporting for the last twenty years - has a reason to smile.

Drama, which only about 30 years ago, timidly and accidentally started cultivating French varieties, has earned its worthy place on the wine map of the country And the Dramine vineyard considered one of the most up-and-coming. The wines of the wineries of the area (Costa Lazaridis Estate, Chico Nico Lazaridi, Oenogenesis, Wine Art Estate, Pavlidis Estate, Ktima Michailidis, Manolesaki Estate) participate in international wine competitions, win distinctions and medals, managing to significantly increase their exports. The Dramine winemakers, showing great resilience during the financial crisis, take new initiatives for development of Wine Tourism, for the connection of wine with the rest of the economy and the society of Drama.

With the three milestones during each year, the Drama knowledge Dramino Vineyard Festival - every May, the Short Film Festival, every September, and her annual appointment Christmas Dream City, from the beginning of December to the beginning of January, Drama welcomes thousands of visitors and opens with claims to the rest of Greece

With virgin forests and caves (the cave of the river Aggitis is one of the most impressive in the world) that are not found anywhere else in Greece, artificial lakes and imposing waterfalls, with the St. Barbara's Park to be among the 60 most beautiful parks in Europe with plane trees, lakes, ducks, swans and wooden bridges, with a local cuisine with interesting influences from different gastronomic cultures, where cold cuts with protagonists play an important role Saarpot and "Northern Greece" meat factory, Drama claims a worthy place in the Tourist and Gastronomic horizon.

Drama, a place of contradictions, is trying to find its identity.

The delicious delicacies of the East are married to the chic French wines of Sauvignon and Semillon, the ruined mansions or Turkish houses are turned into alternative bars, cosmopolitan hotels are erected between the alleys and cobbled streets and the abandoned tobacco houses Hydrama Grand Hotel and they make those dreams crazy too.

And young people, enjoy the beauty of their city and taking walks in St. Barbara's Park looking for solutions for to land in their place.