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Makrinitsa, Makrynitsa, Anakasia, Portaria, Chania, Zagora, Veneto, Chorefto |
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mountain that the myth refers as the summer residence
of the gods of Olympus and as the magic country
of the Centaurs, raises imposing and green over
Volos, between Pagasitikos gulf and the Aegean Sea.
In the magical atmosphere of the Pelion landscape,
the history and the legend, the wild and the calm,
yesterday and today, all meet.
Here, the marriages of Pileas and Thetis took place,
which Omerus, Pindarus and Euripides sang.
From here the legendary Argo with Iason and the
Argonauts started for the far journey to Kolchida,
seeking the "Golden Fleece".
Near the wise Centaur Chiron, the half-gods Achilleus
and Hercules studied, while Asclepius learned the
Medicine.
Beyond the myth, however, the tracks of the historical
route of Pelion throughout the centuries are printed
at the ruins of the ancient towns, at the remnants
of the mediaeval castles and at the monuments of
old Christian basilicas.
Since the 12th century, Pelion presents at the historical
scene as a "monastic state" due to the
many monasteries that were built in places mountainous
and safe by monks of Agio Oros.
At the passage of the time, around the monasteries
of Pelion new dorps are established, which with
the translocations of populations of the coast are
organized to towns and villages that during the
Turkish Domination gain privileges and self-government,
resulting to the economical and cultural acme of
the second half of the 18th century.
Thus, the head villages of Pelion turn to real museums
of folk art and architecture. The lofty figures
of the castle houses, the temples of basilica style
with the carven temples and the magnificent holy
pictures, the cobbly pavements, the cool squares,
the stone faucets and the arched bridges are saved
till today composing... the unique Pelion scene.
Above of these, nevertheless, is the heaven nature
of Pelion that attracts and entrances its numerous
visitors.
Wild, gnarled and with lush vegetation that descends
till the coasts of Aegean, the east side of it and
quiet, peaceful, sown with picturesque villages
and windless beaches, the side of Pagasitikos.
The uniqueness of the Greek landscape concentrates
to this miracle of the nature that is called Pelion,
where the rustle of the trees of the mountain unites
with the air of the sea and in our imagination we
hear the clops, the conflicts and the passions of
the Centaurs.
We start the tour of Pelion from Volos, following
the road net. |
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  MAKRINITSA
- Community of Makrinitsa
Volos- Makrinitsa: 15 km
The balcony of Pelion. One of the most characteristic dorps with mansion houses and houses that seem to hang like gems at the green slope.
The square with the age-long platans offers a panoramic view towards Volos and Pagasitikos. In a coffee-house of it, a big mural of the painter Theophilos, is saved. The picturesque cobblestone pavements of Makrinitsa are scattered with traditional faucets, where fresh water flows continuously.
At the mansion house Topali the museum of folk art and history of Pelion is housed. It is about a folkloric museum - representation of a mansion house with a full equipment, pictures, jewelry, apparels, firmans, books, tools, records of the community, flags, stone busts and weapons.
The stone built church of Ai Giannis o Prodromos (1800) at the square of Makrynitsa consists a miniature of the Pelion architecture. Beside it, the peculiar faucet "the immortal water", at which all the cobblestone pavements of the village end up.
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 ANAKASIA
- Municipality of Iolkos
Volos - Anakasia: km.
The head of the Municipality of Iolkos, with the
Pelion element been strong, with old mansion houses,
traditional cobblestone pavements, running waters,
and old stone built faucets. Sights of the municipality
are the mansion house of Kontos at Anakasia, with
pieces of the folk painter Theophilos, the Holy
Temple of the Dormition of Mary at the Upper Volos,
a byzantine monument with murals of the 18th century
and the mansion house of Zafiriou at Agios Onoufrios. |
 PORTARIA
- Municipality of Portaria
Volos - Portaria: 12 km
It has been the most important commercial center
of the 24 villages of Pelion. The hotel "Theoxenia"
after 1900 was considered to be the bigger and most
luxurious of the Balkans.
Today Portaria is "the lady of the reception"
at Pelion. The neo-classical mansion houses of it
present interest, many of which function as guesthouses.
Every year, around the end of August the custom
of the Pelion marriage relives.
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 CHANIA
- SNOW CENTER
- municipality of Agria
Volos-Chania: 26 km
A mountain dorp at an altitude of 1200 m., built
in a dense beech forest is the passage from the
west to the east Pelion.
Aforetime, at the inns of Chania the travelers and
the merchants stayed the night. Today, beside the
village, at the position Agriolefkes, one of the
most beautiful snow centers of the country runs.
The ski adorers descend the slopes with the frozen
like fossils trees, watching at their left Pagasitikos
and at their right Aegean.
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 ZAGORA
- municipality of Zagora
Volos-Zagora: 45 km.
The bigger village of Pelion that has met a great
commercial and intellectual acme during the 17th
and the 18th century, is the birthplace of the historical
G. Kordatos. There are byzantine texts that refer
Pelion with the name Zagora. The library of Zagora
is important, as it carries thousands of volumes
of rare books. The school of Rigas or Ellinomousio
as it is known was the oldest school of Pelion.
At this studied among others, Anthimos Gazis, Gr.
Konstantas, the Zagorian Kallinikos Lapatis (of
Constantinople) and the bard of the Graesism, Rigas
Velestinlis (Feraios).
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 VENETO (CAVES)
- community of Keramidi
Volos- Veneto: 51 km.
At the northest edge of Pelion, we meet Keramidi,
a traditional stone built village that extents till
the coast of the Aegean Sea. Port of it is Kamari,
a piscatorial dorp with an excellent sandy beach.
Squarely to Keramidi, in a green slope that ends
to the sheer rocks of Aegean, Veneto is built. One
can visit the impressive caves that exist at the
marine area of the ancient "iini" by a
boat or a ketch. |
 CHOREFTO
- municipality of Zagora
Volos - Chorefto: 55 km
The lush vegetation of Pelion hugs the sandy beaches
of Chorefto, that was a known port from where the
"Zagorian ships" left for the big markets
of Europe and East. At this place, where during
the bigger part of the year the waves dance, G.
Drosinis was inspired his poetry collection, "Galini".
A green path leads from the north side of the village
to the lovely desolate sand beaches Parisena and
Analipsi. |
 AGIOI
SARANTA
- Municipality of Zagora
An endless beach, unexploited and thus magical.
Green and blue waters, clear as a crystal, a sand
beach without an end, a virgin place where the fantasy
free wanders and leaves its faint footprints over
the golden sand. |
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