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Modern Florina is smothered in pale green, that soothes nerves and settles the soul, has excess oxygen for those who visit and enjoy the nice restaurants, the most beautiful desserts and in particular the climate and the hospitality and honest love of its people. Beautiful and stylish hotels, friendly and tame vast forests, magnificent landscapes, beautiful lakes and rivers, traditional villages, parks for wildlife. And then the subtle, unique, delicious cuisine.In Florina, everyone can be satisfied, poets, novelists, climbers, fishermen, walker, eateries, patients. For each one there is something. Florina has something for everyone apart. Prespa offers the unique of its beauty, silence, stretch, rare birds, 282 species that have disappeared from Europe at a special link with the 32 species of flora and fauna of 1600 species and delicious fish at least 11 species, along with trout of St. Germain. Each village has its feast. Then everybody run to celebrate, enjoy and dance. Nobody is left hungry and especially the stranger.

Volos, a city full of beauty

From Volos, you to have the opportunity to visit wonderful places in the sea, the mountain or the plain. There are ships to connect daily with Sporades and boats running regular service routes to the enchanting villages of Pelion. The seaside avenue, well set, friendly and pleasant, is an excellent walk, while in the Upper Volos you will enjoy a unique view to Pagasitikos Gulf. Within the city, you can admire several mansions and neoclassical buildings. You have to find time to see the pottery workshops, the exhibition center Dimitrias at the entrance of the city, handicrafts and craft workshops of weaving and the traditional train, connecting the old city with Milies village - in the summer it makes symbolic journeys from Volos to Agria (7 km). You will visit the church of St. Constantine, St. Nicholas, Metamorphosis, Agia Triada and Virgin Goritsa. In Episkopi, in Upper Volos, the church of the Virgin, which has been dated to the 12th century, it contains built-in Byzantine relief pieces. The archaeological museum shows great interest, which houses the most important collection of Greek art from the ancient tombstones Dimitriada. It was founded in 1909 and has seven rooms with finds from excavations in various parts of Thessaly. It is situated on the eastern edge of the beach town, deep in a lush garden.The Municipal Gallery, housed in the City Hall and it has paintings, prints and sculpture of major neo artists. At the Nea Ionia Municipal Gallery, you will marvel new artists' works. 4.5 km from the city, in Anakasia, is the Theophilos Museum with paintings of the great painter. In the city, you will also see the home of folklorist Kitsos Makris, where - among others - there are works of Theophilos. In the park of Anavros, you will admire the sculptures of featured Greeks and foreign artists. If you wish to stray a little from Volos to satisfy your archaeological interests, you will find ruins of Ancient Dimitriada at New Pagases (6 km from Volos), with the well-preserved theater, residues and traces of the temple wall. A little further south, it is the place and the citadel of ancient Pagasae, a city that was inhabited from the Neolithic era. In the village Dimini (5 km from Volos) and in Sesklo (14 km from Volos) there are prehistoric settlements. It would be remiss not to mention the tsipouradika of Volos, whose number in the region far exceeds the 300. You will enjoy the local tsipouro and specialty seafood in the traditional atmosphere of these taverns. Tsipouradika are also found inside the city of Volos, on the street Pagasae.

Parnassos Ski Centre

One of the best organized and full equipped ski centers in our country, in order to cover all the requirements from beginners to advanced friends of ski is Parnassos. Parnassos skiing centre offers in the lovers of winter sports a lot of different ring levels, possibilities for interesting descent for skier out of the ring levers, while they consist an ideal initial point for crossings with mountaineering skis. The three ski centers – Gerontovrahos, Fterolakka and Kellaria – cover the requirements of winter sports and not only, while at the winter period they are in complete operation. The centers allocate: Parking, Helideck, Spaces of reception, Restaurant, Bar, Cafeteria, Experienced personal babysitting, First aids, and Road help. Also function faculties ski and snowboard, shops of renting and sale of types ski and snowboard. For the friends of ski but also for the friends of mountainous nature, in the ski centers that find in altitude 1.600 – 2.300 m., function 1 cable railway, 6 air lifts and 7 sliding lifts and 20 slopes, total length 14 km. From these 16 are slopes of skiing of length 6000m., until 4000m.. From these 13 are for new, medium and experienced skiers, while the other three are for professionals. For those who want to learn ski or are beginners, the Greek Center of Mountainous Sports Arahovas, as other private faculties, teach daily courses ski at the duration of winter period.

Kalambaka, a city built below the rock of the Meteora

kalambaka hotels : Every year, millions of visitors come from all over the world in order to admire and honour Meteora. If its needed, they stay at Kalampaka and Kastraki. Kalampaka is a city of rich history and important monuments. The one of the greatest importance is the Holy Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary that is at the north-eastern part of the city under the very high rock of Aea. The city of Kalampaka is built on the feet of the Meteora and it is at the left side of the river Pinios at the point that it enters the plain of Thessaly. It is the starting place for those visitors who wish to be familiar with the monuments and the magnificent sites of Aspropotamos of Hasia, of Koziakas and especially of the Meteora. The city of Kalampaka is the capital of the homonymous province that takes up the north-western part of the prefecture of Trikala. There, one can find nice hotels, modern campings, restaurants, tourist shops, etc. The ancient name of the city was Aeginion. This is how it is mentioned in the Hellenistic and Roman years because of the great importance of its position. The name Aeginion is witnessed from an enshrined inscription on the wall that is at the eastern part of the church of Saint John the Baptist. At the beginning of the 10th century (901-907) Kalampaka of today is mentioned as Stagi, a name that is reserved until today as a Metropolitan title. Many travellers passed through Kalampaka from the ancient years until today and they refer to it by the name Aeginion or by the name Stagi or by its present name Kalampaka. At the north-eastern part of the city exists the picturesque neighbourhood of Sopotos, under the rock of the Holy Trinity (east) and the rock of Alsos (north). In the city there are many small churches -country chapels of post Byzantine age. In fact, many of them have admirable hagiographies.The cathedral church of Saint Vissarion is constructed in the honour of Saint Metropolitan of Larissa, who was the founder and the owner of the Monastery of Dusikos. The church has been hagiographied entirely by John Albanis. The Byzantine church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary is the most important and most imposing monument of Kalampaka which constitutes a point of reference and adoration for all the faithful people. Despite the significant efforts that have been materialised, it is obvious the abandonment on behalf of the people in change for the systematic maintenance of the temple and the environmental space, too. Let us hope that UNESCO, the European Community and mostly the Greek state will be interested in the maintenance of this appreciable monument of Orthodoxy before it is too late. The church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary, which is found in the old city, was erected between the 10th and the 11th century on the ruins of an old Christian "basilica" church. The order (way of building) is "trikliti" (triforium) basilica of mixed type "it has very high and lit the intermediate "klitos" (aisle) of the narthex and the "trivilo". The outer narthex was added in the 16th century. In the southern wall there are surrounded with wall externally a lot of ancient parts of bas-reliefs (rodakes representations wrought in relief, signs, capes etc.), as well as old Christian sculpture with a vine-shoot. From the sculpture decoration of the Byzantine basilica, the oldest is the marble "kivorio" (tomb) of the Holy Altar found in the Sanctuary. Special interest presents the unique in Greece marble pulpit that imposingly is raised at the centre of the intermediate "klitos" in front of the Holy Gate. It has been reconstructed to its biggest part from architectural parts of the old pulpit. The murals of the church are dated from the 12th until the 16th century and are of exceptional interest. A lot of murals were created in 1573 by priest Kiriazis and by Neofytos, son of the eminent painter Theofanis from Crete. The most important of the temples portable pictures is the both sides painted picture, which on the one side portrays the Assumption of Virgin Mary and on the order the Christs Crucifixion. The two now separate, pictures after the theft and their restoration are kept in the Varlaam Monastery of the Meteora. The wood carved temple of the church belongs to the appreciable work of the post Byzantine wood carving and it was created during the 17th century. In a little depth on the front left part of the main temple, part of a mosaic flooring had been revealed. As we enter the temple on the northern wall of the inner narthex they are written, with capital letters writing, the "golden bull" of the Emperor Andronikos c Paleologos 1336 with which the borders of the Bishopric of Stagi are determined and privileges are granted, as well as the "sigilio" (the Patriarchs edict) of the Ecumenical "universal". Patriarch Antonios D 1393 with which the privileges of the Bishopric of Stagi - that various emperors of Byzantium had granted occasionally are renewed. Impressive and imposing is also the churchs bell tower, found on the northern side of the entrance in the grounds of the church.

Santorini, a famous island

Santorini is an island located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km southeast of mainland Greece. It is also known as Thira and is the southernmost member of the group of Cyclades islands with a population of 13,670 residents. Santorini is essentially what remains of a massive volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient settlement existed on the island and led to the current geological caldera. The breathtaking natural beauty, with a dynamic nightlife, have made the island one of the famous tourist destinations. A giant central lagoon is surrounded by high cliffs on three sides. On the fourth side, the lagoon is separated from the sea by another much smaller island called Thirassia. The lagoon merges with the sea in two places in the northwest and southwest. The water in the middle of the lagoon is about 400 meters depth, thus it is a safe haven for all kinds of shipping. All the ports of the island are on the side of the lagoon and there are ports on the outer perimeter of the island. The capital, Fira, is at the top of the cliff and is looking the lagoon.In the island was one of the largest volcanic eruptions has ever seen the planet: the Minoan eruption (sometimes is called the Thera eruption), which occurred about 3600 years ago. The explosion left a large caldera, which is surrounded by volcanic ash and can be linked indirectly to the collapse of the Minoan civilization on Crete, 110 km to the south, from the creation of a giant tsunami. Another popular theory holds that the explosion of Thera is the source of the myth of Atlantis. Santorini was united with Greece in 1912. The major settlements therein are: Fira, Oia, Emporio, Kamari, Perissa, Imerovigli, Pyrgos and Thirassia. Akrotiri is an important archaeological site with ruins from the Minoan era. The island relies on tourism, especially during the summer months. In order Caldera to continue its being, the island's pumice quarries closed in 1986.

Kipi Zagori

Village Kipi or Mbagia in Zagori / Zagorochoria is abstains just 38 km from Ioannina city."Mpagia" is a Slavic word and means "bath". The village was called like that due to the impressive nature and the natural "pools" featured by the rivers around it.Mpagia or Kipi is the only village that is built amphitheatrically in a slope, So the travaller can admire all the region just with a glance.

Andros - The Story of a multifaceted island

Τhe name of the island most probably originates from General Andros from Crete, legendary colonizer of the Minoan times. Archeological excavations prove the existence of developed settlements, dating back to Mycenaean times or even earlier. The island becomes historically known during the Geometric period (9th-7th century B.C.), as it is proved by traces of a settlement found in Zagora, at the south-western part of the island, close to Zaganiari. The capital of Andros island, during the classical times, was Paleopoli. The prosperity during that period is shown by the big production of coins. Relevant findings together with Hermes of Andros statue are exhibited in the Archeological Museum in Hora. In 7th century B.C. Andros island participated with Chalkideans to the colonization of Chalkidiki and coastal areas of Thrace in northern Greece.Andros, following with the rest Aegean islands the fate of continental Greece, consecutively fell under Roman, Frank and Ottoman occupation. Dating back to 11th century, Byzantine style churches are found around the island, like Taxiarchis in Ipsilou, Melida and Messaria and Kimisi Theotokou (Assumption) in Mesathouri. In the 14th century, the "Agias Monastery" (Zoodochos Pigi) was built near Batsi, while Agios Nikolaos monastery was founded in 1560 and rebuilt in 18th century. Panachrantou monastery was founded in mid-17th century. At Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in Korthi, a school has been established in 1813, before the Greek War of Independence against the Ottomans. It was founded by Samuel Plasimis and it incorporates a separate building, serving as the teachers house and library. On May 10th, 1821, Theofilos Kairis declared the War of Independence, thus marking the starting point of the islands recent history, during which Andros reached the peak of its economic prosperity, thanks to its ships. It is worth noting that Andriot Dimitris Moraitis initiated Greece-North America line in the beginning of the 20th century, while Andros was in 1939 second to Piraeus regarding ship registration.

Villas in Crete

Crete is a unique destination in Greece, that blends impressing history with exquisite modern-time tradition and exceptional lifestyle. Every year, it attracts thousands of visitors from around the globe, who want to explore its amazing natural beauty and experience one of the most special spots in Greece. It can offer great opportunities for natural exploration, vivid life and delicious local cuisine tasting as it holds a long history as a tourist destination. However, luxury is profound in the island's modern aesthetics and villas in Crete draw a lot of attention from its annual visitors.Thus, Divine Retreats team has made a great selection of luxurious villas in Crete, that can satisfy even the most demanding explorer. Properties carefully recruited are waiting for you to explore the borders of luxury and wellness, while giving yourself the opportunity to create summer memories that will last for a life time. All villas meet the highest standards as far as design and amenities are concerned and are categorized in such a way, in order to facilitate the search for your villa of your needs and dreams.

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