Milies

By car

From Athens, 356 km (3 hours and 48 minutes)

From Thessaloniki, 237 km (2 hours and 52 minutes)

From Volos, 27.5 km (44 minutes)

From Pelion Ski Center, 31.1 km (58 minutes)

KTEL Volou (local buses) ktelvolou.gr

By train

From Ano Lechonia to Milies

The town was founded by people fleeing pirate attacks on Milies on the island of Euboea. The town was constructed inland and while the sea can be seen from the village, the community cannot be seen from the sea.

Anthimos Gazis and Grigorios Konstantas opened the school "Psychis Akos" in 1814 which is now a library with books and historic features.

Milies was the first community of Pelion which saw the Greek War of Independence of 1821. Magnesia lost the battle and did not join the Greek Kingdom until 1881.

When Milies and the area became part of Greece in 1881, the Ottomans left the area.

Source: wikipedia.org

• ANTHIMOS GAZIS

Anthimos Gazis (or Gazes; 1758, Milies – 1828, Ermoupoli, Syros) was a Greek scholar, philosopher during the Greek Enlightenment, cartographer and one of the heroes of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Milies in Ottoman Greece in 1758 and died in 1828. His real name was Anastasios Gazalis.

• GRIGORIOS KONSTANTAS

Grigorios Konstantas (1753–1844) was a Greek scholar and figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment. He was actively involved in various educational issues as well as participated in the Greek War of Independence.

• DANIEL PHILIPPIDIS

Daniel Philippidis (c. 1750 – 1832) was a Greek scholar, figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment and member of the patriotic organization Filiki Etaireia. He was one of the most active scholars of the Greek diaspora in the Danubian Principalities and Western Europe. Philippidis mainly wrote geographical and historical works as well as translated important handbooks of science and philosophy.