The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest organizes guided tours and scientific information in Sigri Petrified Forest Park, which is located next to Museum.
Impressive root systems and standing petrified tree trunks, with their perfectly preserved features, invite the visitors to discover the unique history of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos.
The program includes a guided tour and scientific information in the Sigri Park, where the participants can have the opportunity to get to know standing fossilized tree trunks and root systems of trees of subtropical plants, which certify the autochthony of the Petrified Forest.
In the Sigri Petrified Forest Park, visitors can admire a variety of fossilized tree trunks and impressive root systems of trees in their natural position with excellent preservation of their characteristics, which reveal to the visitors the outstanding geological history of the Lesvos Petrified Forest.
In Sigri Park, 18 fossil sites with 30 fossilized tree trunks of conifers and angiosperm trees and root systems of great scientific value, have come to light from the excavations of the research team of the Museum.
The most important fossils in the park, are the roots of fossilized trees that are preserved in full growth proving that the trees were fossilized in their natural position.
Sigri Park, covers an area of 30 acres, is located next to the Museum facilities in the settlement of Sigri and for the convenience of visitors, special walking routes, viewpoints and wooden rest pavilions have been laid out, while a special tour guide provides visitors with all the information about the unique findings of the Park.
The Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest makes every effort to inform and serve the visitors of the Lesvos Petrified Forest by providing high-level information and interpretation services of the monument and its creation.
For more information and registration please contact 2253054434. Electronic tickets are available via the website www.lesvosmuseum.gr or at the Museum before the start of the tour.