Kapsia Cave is 15 km away from Tripoli and 1.5 km from Kapsia Village. The French archaeologist Gustave Fougères firstly discovered this beautiful cave in 1887 while was excavating in ancient Mantineia. The first research of the cave was held on 20 August 1892 by a Greek-French expedition headed by Arcadian county engineer Nicolas Sideridis …
The artificial snake-shaped lake of Ladonas is located between the mountains of Lagkadia and the Afrodisios mountain. The lake, when at its highest level of operation (420 meters altitude), is 15 km long with maximum width of 1500 m and minimum width of 75 m and its capacity then reaches 49,000,000 m3. It is supplied …
Lagkadia of Arcadia is a village in Gortynia, built on a steep mountain slope. It is the home place of Deligiannis’ family, and other combatants of 1821. Tha masons from Lagkadia were famouse throughout Greece for their rich architectural tradition, which is evident in the village itself. In antiquity, the road leading to Olympia, where …
Lagkadia Village or otherwise the “Hanging Village” (Kremasto) – 19 min – 14km Read More »
Zigovisti (also Zygovisti) is a mountainous village in prefecture Arcadia. It is built at an altitude of 1.200 m. on the slopes of Mainalo and is one of the most mountainous settlements in the Peloponnese. It is officially proclaimed as traditional settlement. It is 6 km from Dimitsana. At the village square there is the …
Zatouna is built beyond the Lousios river. Ancient travelers wrote that this place was particularly inaccessible due to the wild vegetation. It was inhabited by Slavs in the 8th century, hence its name, which is Slavic and means “beyond the river” or “a place flooded with water”. Located four kilometers from Dimitsana it has been …
Karytaina is officially proclaimed as a traditional settlement, as it retains the color of a medieval castle town. Its main attraction is the castle, built on the top of the hill above the settlement. It has a length exceeding 110 meters and a width exceeding 40 meters. Its walls reach a height of 7 meters …
The Monastery of Philosopher is located on the dingle of Lousios River, south of Dimitsana, in Prefecture Arcadia. It is built on the west side of the gorge of Lousios river, 11 km southwest of Dimitsana and about 86 km from Tripoli. The monastery consists of two monastic complexes, the old and the new one, …
In the gorge of Lousios river and in an impressive landscape, 3 km from Dimitsana (68 km from Tripoli) is the Monastery of Aimyalon. It is built at the foot of a large rock, almost hovers in the air, in a cavity of the gorge of the stream Izvora.. The Monastery was built in 1600, …
The Open-air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana is a thematic museum that highlights the importance of water in traditional society, presenting the basic pre-industrial techniques for use of water as a major source of energy for the production of various products. It is an area of about one square kilometer, in which, during the pre-industrial …
The Open-air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana (15 min – 13 km) Read More »
Dimitsana is a historic village in the Peloponnese, the capital of the province of Gortynia in the Prefecture of Arcadia. It is one of the largest villages in the area. The main road that passes through Dimitsana heads toward either the Lousios river or the monasteries of the area. The village itself is ideal for …
