According to an 1896 topographical map, the city’s West walls started from the Letaia Gate, at the beginning of Agiou
By the railroad tracks rises the Byzantine fortress of Pithio, built in 1331 as a private refuge and treasury for
The Monastery of Karakalou, with a high and imposing tower, is located in the southeastern side of Athos peninsula, in
It belongs to the cluster of Korestia villages or ‘brick villages’ of the Regional Unity of Kastoria. They are almost
The castle of Ioannina was the work of the Ottoman provincial ruler of Epirus, Ali Pasha, from the late 18th
Gitana or Gitani was the capital of ancient Thesprotia. It was founded in the 4th century BC and destroyed by
Close to Karyes in the northeastern wooded area of Athos, is located the Monastery
Of Koutloumousiou, which was founded
The imposing Portitsa gorge and bridge, as we see it after four kilometers of dirt road from the village of
Vlasti, a mountainous village just 24 km off Ptolemaida, lies in the bosom of Mounts Siniatsiko (or Askio) and Mouriki,
Kozyli monastery, at the foot of Zalongo hill, was the seat of Kozyli bishopric founded after the decline of Nicopolis,