Monasteries of Pindos: Cattle breeders and shepherds found refugetranslated

Of particular interest is the trek to the unique monumental complex of the Aspropotamos Pindos area, with the help of Krystallia Mantzana, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Head of the Antiquities Ephorate of Trikala. As she emphasizes to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, studying the churches and monasteries, it is found that most of them are dedicated to saints or holidays, which are celebrated in the summer months, a fact completely related to the accommodation and living conditions. This period has as its main milestones the feasts of Saints George and Demetrius, while Agia Paraskevi also holds an honorable place. At the same time, the cattle breeders and shepherds passing by to go down to the plain found shelter and hospitality in certain monasteries.

In more detail, at an altitude of 1,150 m and in the northernmost village of Aspropotamos, in Haliki, Ms. Mantzana points out to APE-MPE, is Agia Paraskevi, a three-aisled basilica of large dimensions, with a covered portico on the south side that follows the structure of the catholicon of the Prophet Helios Monastery in neighboring Sirrakos and has undergone many renovations. Internally, it dominates…