If you arrived in the crash, then you should evaluate the wicker, located in this beautiful ancient Greek city, which has become due to them is widely known.
This terrain is able to admire and make the visits. If you have visited at least once, then they already imbued with the feeling that another city, such a distinctive, no in Greece, nor in the rest of the world.
In Castor, it is necessary to take walks in two wonderful, wonderful places - there are seeking to get all those who arrived in Greece - the state known to the myths and gods. Each of them is peculiar and unique, after their visit, tourists remain bright memories for a long time. Having been in the first, the soul acquires the heat of sunlight and as if it becomes closer to heaven, and visiting the second, you will have a chance for healing and spiritual, and bodily diseases, getting rid of fatigue and experiences.
Meteoras
This is the territory of cosmic forces. Located at a distance of one hundred and twenty-five kilometers from Castoria.
The first of the travels committed by resting in Castorior is a trip to meteors, the territory of the cosmic forces, where the powerful impressions will remain in every visit. When tourists come here, they themselves are convinced that the energy here is a special, giving the strength and renewal of the Spirit.
Unique Local Natural Beauty Wallary Creation of Man - Here the monastery monastic monastery of Christians are unknown here on the rocks. In this place there were earlier and today, those believers who have made a choice in favor of rejecting from worldly worries and devoting themselves to the ministry to the Lord. For this reason, meteors are considered the second center of Orthodoxy in the state - after St. Athon, who is a closed monastic state. Nowadays, there are six monasteries in meteors.
The name of the meteora terrain means "soaring in the air", between heaven and land. This name gave the first local monastic community to the one who owns the merit of its foundation is Rev. Afanasiya Meteoric (XIV century).
Arida - "Alps in Greece"
The second journey will be more suitable for fans of the medical and recreation holiday. Arida, which has a nickname "Greek Alps", is a unique region in the state in which the tourist is surrounded by majestic mountains, covered with a rich forest, therapeutic thermal sources - the SPA resort of natural origin, mysterious caves and natural beauty. An important nuance is also the fact that in these places you can relax at any time of the year - therefore, the crowds of tourists can constantly come here.
Did you ever enjoy the autumn days among the mountainous area? The air is clean and transparent, it is drunk, and the mighty natural forces, which carries healing water in the sources, give you energy and health. After all, it is not easy so therapeutic effect of local thermal sources was highly appreciated in the romance period.
During the winter, the local hydraulician attracts tourists who prefer to combine treatment with healing waters and a skiing sport that can be engaged in the center of Voras-Kaimakzalan, which is near.
Those who love to learn everything new to give new places of rest will be able to stroll through the picturesque mountain trails, to visit the caves with a unique atmosphere, on wonderful plain lakes, as well as in the establishments of culture - in the Museum of Natural Sciences and in the Paleontological Museum.
Orestiad Lake
Orestiad is a lake in the mountains, the fate of which was the heart of Castoria. They called him in memory of the leader of the Ellinines of Oriest Argossky, whom Danian chased in the XI-century to our era. However, there is a legend that the son of Zeus Olympic, Castor, looked at this lake of volcanic origin every morning. The likelihood is not excluded that because of this, the Hero is so called, how he is known today. For otherwise, the name of the city of "Castoria" is associated with the numerous population of Bobrov, who lived in the waters of the Orestiad Lake - after all, on the ancient Greek "Castor" means "beaver".
This lake is located at an altitude of 630 meters, in the west of its territory there is a long peninsula, on which the city of Castoria is presented. The richness of the animal and plant world in Orestiad Lake provides strong impressions not only on tourists who come here to admire natural beauty, however, on scientists - since here you can see a large number of fish species; The lake also attracts various representatives of the feathers - thanks to abundant "fish farm" (they fly here, herons, storks, quax, swans and pelicans). One of the favorite, beautiful and romantic traditions of holidaymakers is the custom of feeding gulls and swans on the urban embankment.
Studies of scientists and local lesions lead to the same conclusion regarding the age of Lake Orestiad - he is about ten million years old. To ride along his waters means approximately the same thing that touched the past, while enjoying the beautiful scenery of the city from the water, which one who intends to spend the rest of the rest is only in Castoria.
Dragon Cave
Not all those who relax in Castoria, heard of the secrets that lie in her underground world. The dragon cave is not a legendary fiction or fairy tale - this place exists in fact, there are extraordinary natural beauty and modern system, designed to preserve the unique microclimate, saved the natural magic for us.
Entrance to this wonderland, which is similar to a monstrous mouth, is located within fifteen meters from Lake Orestiad. According to the local legend, the entrance was guarding the dragon, sped the fire on the unnecessary guests.
In this cave, in the only country there are seven lakes with fresh water, ten underground rooms of various magnitudes and five tunnels. Promotes powerful impressions from visiting this natural wicker also artificial lighting, thanks to which is highlighted both tourist trails and rocks. The remains of the cave bear were discovered here, they are ten thousand years old.