HDE-801-PELION GASTRONOMY ESCAPES_EN

Gastronomic Escapes

TRANSPORT: MINI BUS/BUS AREAS : EAST PELION DEPARTURE TIME : 19:00 OR UPON REQUEST RETURN TIME: 23:00 OR UPON REQUEST MINIMUM PARTICIPATION : 8 - 20 PERSONS CODE: HDE 801 Diners in Traditional Villages of Pelion Get to know and taste the diners in traditional environment.

Cuisine and good food is important as anywhere else in Greece. Pelion has some very unique and tasty traditional dishes that one should try when eating out. Through our organized escapes we ensure a possibility for you to know the Pelion Kitchen via selected traditional taverns, where housewives with very caring about guests prepares a dishes using home-recipes and with natural ingredients.

Most taverns of our area use only local products, so your plate always full of delicacies and treats from Pelion.

We selected a few tavernas to propose you a unique experience to “travel” to Pelion's Gastronomy.

Don’t forget, that in the end you’ll be surprised with delicious sweets, hand-made by housewife.

SPETSOFAI: THE “SPECIALITE” OT PELION Pelion is absolutely magnificent with green mountains everywhere. Spetsofai, a stew of country sausage, green mild peppers, onions and wine. One of the best foods to taste accompanied with local red wine…

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Price per person: From 25,00 € to 35,00 € per person (depended from participation) Price includes: Transfers with mini bus/bus.

English speaking escort (or other language if requested).

Dinner at local restaurant.

All taxes.

KISSOS The traditional village Kissos is situated only 12 km away from Agios Ioannis. In Kissos you can find the church of Agia Marina which is of the 17th century and has a woodcut temple, the hagiographies and ethnographies of the painter Gianni Pagoni. Near the church, there is a small museum of icons and woodcuts of Byzantine art. In the graphic square of Kissos there are taverns where housewives offer traditional meals and local products. Here you can taste a fresh meet “kontosouvli”, “spetsofai”, “fasolada” and other dishes of Pelion’s cousine. After dinner you can make a small walk on stone paths of Kissos, just to feel the unique atmosphere of an old village.

ZAGORA The capital village in Pelion remained impregnable from the Turks, developed the marine trade and small handicraft. In Zagora , you will experience a very traditional local meal in a most beautiful setting and with other added luxury of being driven back home after possibly consuming some of the excellent locally produced wines. After dinner in the village we return back to Agios Ioannis.

TSAGKARADA It is a green landscape with rich vegetation, high plane trees and chestnut trees.

One of the most beautiful tourist places of the landscape of Pelion, is the village of Tsagarada, which is located approximately 450 m above the sea level. Tsagarada was founded in 1500 in a wild chestnut forest. Around the churches of Taxiarxes, Agia Paraskevi, Agia Kyriaki, and Agios Stefanos, four wonderful settlements were formed. In the square of Agia Paraskevi, a special surprise awaits the visitor: a huge one thousand year old plane tree with a trunk whose circumference reaches 14 metres. Another special characteristic that catches the eye of the visitor are the houses, all of them with large flower gardens.

In every corner of Tsagkarada you can find a traditional tavern and small restaurant with numerous food choices.

MOURESI This village is the oldest in Pelion and it’s situated near to Agios Ioannis. It is built amphitheatrically between the apple and chestnut trees. The views are dramatic, looking across the plunging mountainside and the Aegean Sea. Mouresi overlooks a deep valley which great beauty is known only to the few lovers of nature, the initiates, who have sought out a guide to take them down the deep recesses of the ravine where two streams form natural pools in whose ice-cold waters only fairies and nymphs have bathed since the dawn of time. The village's cobble flag-stoned, main square is just beautiful and is surrounded by a tall linden tree that generously lends its shade to the beautiful church of Agia Triada. In some beautiful corners of the village you can find small traditional taverns with many food options between meet, fish, traditional dishes and hand-made sweets.

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