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_______________________________________________ Hitting the roads again, during the Xmas Vacation... This time to explore something new, to live a new “adventure�, to have fun and to experience something different... The road drove us to Northern Greece and more specifically to Florina; the last Greek city before the Albanian ang Bulgarian borders! Hope that you will enjoy this, full of images, flip book from this awesome #nut_escape ...!
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Florina (regional unit)
________________________________________ Florina (Greek: Περιφερειακή ενότητα Φλώρινας) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of West Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Florina. Florina borders the regional units of Pella to the east, Kozani to the south and Kastoriá to the southwest. At the Greek international borders, it is adjacent to Albania (Devoll and Korçë districts) to the west, the Republic of Macedonia (Bitola andResen municipalities) to the north and Lake Prespa to the northwest, where the two borders cross each other. Lake Vegoritida is situated in the east. Mountains in the regional unit include Verno (2,128 m or 6,982 ft), Varnous (2,117 m or 6,946 ft) and Voras (2,524 m or 8,281 ft).
Pisoderi
_________________________ Pisoderi (Greek: Πισοδέρι) is a village 17 km west of Florina, Greece.Nearby,5 khm, is the ski resort Vigla. First mentioned in an Ottoman defter of 1481, the village, then known as Ipsoder, had only twelve households.[1] The ski center is located on Mount Verno, and currently has five lifts and ten trails. The summit of the resort is 1939m above sea level, with a total vertical drop about 420m. The resort has a view of the Lake Prespa, on the border between Greece, Albania and Macedonia.
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Konstantinos Karmas
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George Gkiatas
Lake Prespa
__________________________ Prespa is the name of two freshwater lakes in southeast Europe, shared by Albania, Greece, and F.Y.R.O.M.. Of the total surface area, 176.3 km2 (68.07 sq mi) belongs to the Republic of Macedonia, 46.3 km2 (17.88 sq mi) to Albania and 36.4 km2(14.05 sq mi) to Greece. They are the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans, standing at an elevation of 853 m (2,798 ft). The Great Prespa Lake (Greek: Μεγάλη Πρέσπα, Limni Megáli Préspa) is divided between Albania, Greece and Macedonia. The Small Prespa Lake (Greek: Μικρή Πρέσπα, Mikri Prespa) is shared only between Greece (138 km2 (53.28 sq mi) drainage area; 42.5 km2 (16.41 sq mi) surface area) and Albania (51 km2 (19.69 sq mi) drainage area; 4.3 km2 (1.66 sq mi) surface area). In 2014, the Ohrid-Prespa Transboundary Reserve between Albania and Macedonia was added to UNESCO’s World Network of Biosphere Reserves. In the 10th century, the Tsar Samuil built the fortress and church of St. Achillius on an island called Agios Achillios in the Small Prespa Lake, on the Greek side of the border. The biggest island in the Great Prespa Lake, on Macedonia’s side, is called Golem Grad (“Large Town”), and Snake Island (Zmiski Ostrov). The other island Mal Grad (Small Town, in Albania) is the site of a ruined 14th century monastery dedicated to St. Peter. Today, both islands are uninhabited. Because Great Prespa Lake sits about 150m above Lake Ohrid, which lies only about 10 km (6.21 mi) (6 miles) to the west, its waters run through underground channels in the karst and emerge from springs which feed streams running into Lake Ohrid. For many years, the Greek part of the Prespa Lakes region was an underpopulated, military sensitive area which required special permission for outsiders to visit. It saw fierce fighting during the Greek Civil War and much of the local population subsequently emigrated to escape endemic poverty and political strife. The region remained little developed until the 1970s, when it began to be promoted as a tourist destination. With an abundance of rare fauna and flora, the area was declared a Transnational Park in 2000. In 1999 the Society for the Protection of Prespa received the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for its conservation efforts regarding the Lake Prespa Ramsar site. The area contains three National Parks located in Albania, Greece, and F.Y.R.O.M.. The largest town in the Prespa Lakes region is Resen in the Republic of Macedonia. _______________________________________________ ________________________________________
Photo: Eva Patapatiou
Photo: Petros Vaxevanakis
Photo: Eva Patapatiou
Photo: Petros Vaxevanakis
Photo: Eva Patapatiou / Petros Vaxevanakis
Photo: Petros Vaxevanakis
Photo: Petros Vaxevanakis
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