The traditional settlement of Makrinitsa, the so-called "Balcony of Pelion", is located 17 km from the city of Volos. It received the name Makrinitsa from the Monastery of "Our Lady of Makrinitsa" (or Our Lady of the Acute Visitation) founded by Con. Melissinos between 1204-1215. Makrinitsa was a
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In the central part of Pelion, 28 km southeast of Volos, is the village of Milies. It is established that the settlement was inhabited before 650 AD. h. based on the untouched Christian tombs with offerings (mainly lamps) accidentally discovered in the area. The time of the establishment of Mileon
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In southern Pelion, in Lafko Magnesia, the "Antonis Tavanis" Radio Museum is located. It is housed in a stone two-story mansion from 1890, which the painter Magda Karastathi donated for 7 years to the Cultural Association of Lafkos "i Drasi". The Museum was inaugurated in 2008 with the help of the
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The Fampeio Museum of Art is housed in the old Primary School of Lafkos Magnesia, in the southern part of Pelion, 50 km from the city of Volos. It was founded in 2005 in honor of the artist Thanasis Fampas (1922-2011). In his painting, which is influenced by archaic austerity and Byzantine
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The Museum is housed on the 1st floor of a building that belongs to the Community of Agios Georgios Nileas of the Municipality of Milea. It was established in 1992 and includes 22 sculptural works by the sculptor and engraver Nikolaos Pavlopoulos (1909-1990) or Nikolas. These are 20 bronze, mostly
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The Museum of Lake Culture is located in the Kanalia settlement of the Municipality of Karla, 25 km northwest of Volos. It has been operating since 2005 in a building that used to be a cinema. The Museum owns a number of Photographic Collections such as that of Dimitris Letsios from Volio who
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The Olive Museum was created in 2008 by the company "Pelion Oros" in the settlement of Ano Gatzeas. It is housed in a two-story stone building owned by G. Vogiatzis that consists of the main Museum (100 sq.m.) and a smaller designed projection area (20 sq.m.) with 4 built-in jars that used to be an
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