Zagora - Pelion, Magnesia, Thessaly

Zagora - Pelion
Zagora Mouresi, Magnesia, Thessaly
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- Few Words about Zagora - Pelion
  - Zagora is a capital-village divided in four major districts (Agia Paraskevi or Perachora, Agia Kyriaki, Agios Georgios and Metamorphosis or Sotira) being spread along the green and sunny slopes, gives the impression to the remote spectator that this is a complex of four individual villages.
    
    Zagora is beautiful at any time of the year, ideal for winter or summer holidays with a wide range of small scale installations that offer the visitors hospitality, traditional food, and all modern-life amenities. With Zagora's traditional stone-built mansions emerging through the lush vegetation, its churches, springs, stone bridges, it's urban and mountain tracks and it's various cultural/sport activities mainly during summer, Zagora can be a window of opportunity for relaxation, fun and genuine Greek hospitality.
    
    Zagora is start for various hiking trails. In Agios Georgios location one can find a hiker's lodge. The port of Zagora is Horefto.
    
    Source: www.east-pelion.gr
- Access & Directions to Zagora - Pelion
  - By car
    
    From Volos, 44 km (1 hour and 16 minutes)
    
    From Athens, 371 km (4 hours and 18 minutes)
    
    From Thessaloniki, 251 km (3 hours and 22 minutes)
    
    From Pelion Ski Center, 20.1 km (34 minutes)
- Place Name Origin
  - The name Zagora has probably Slavic origin and means "the place behind the mountain." Hence all the eastern (a.k.a. behind) villages of Pelion used to be called "villages of Zagora", while Pelion mountain itself was once known as "mountain of Zagora".
    
    Source: www.east-pelion.gr
- Land and History
  - The first mention of Zagora is in the Aesopian Myths. The legend was that a powerful and loud female creature, Zagorina, guarded mount Pelion and lived in a cave very near the current position of Zagora. The beast ate humans and drank local tsipouro. There are texts dating back to the Byzantine era that mention Pelion by the name Zagora. During the Byzantine Empire, Zagora, through its harbor, Chorefto, developed significant trading activity and was ruled as a merchant republic, with direct ties to Venice. Zagorian sailors, merchants, missionaries and explorers have travelled as far as China and South America.
    
    Source: wikipedia.org
- Famous Persons
  - IOANNIS PRIGOS (1725 - 1789)

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