First launched by the Municipality of Kavala in 2000, the Cosmopolis festival continues to draw thousands of visitors of all ages to the old town each year for an event built around cultural exchange. Streets fill with stalls offering foreign cuisines, national costumes and folk dances, alongside short documentary screenings about the participating countries' traditions. Organisers describe the festival as a deliberate counterpoint to the classical focus of the Philippi Festival, aimed at celebrating the diversity of cultures that have passed through the port city over the centuries.