Section
Places
Towns, villages, rivers and monuments. Thessaly up close and from the air.
PlacesKarditsa
Agrafa: the mountains that never made it into the registers
Sheer peaks, stone bridges and villages clinging to the slopes. The Agrafa are among the most untouched mountains in Greece, a short drive from the plain of Karditsa.
PlacesSporades
Skopelos: the Chora, the chapels and Agios Ioannis at Kastri
Ancient Peparethos, a town that descends like an amphitheatre to the harbour, and a chapel on a rock that the whole world came to know.
PlacesTrikala
The Bridge of Pyli and Porta Panagia
A stone arch of 1514 over the Portaikos river and, a few steps away, a 13th-century Byzantine church. Where the Thessalian plain enters the Pindus mountains.
PlacesTrikala
Meteora: monasteries at the edge of the sky
Giant rock pillars, monasteries perched on their summits and seven centuries of history. What Meteora is, and how to see it with respect.
PlacesMagnesia
The Pelion railway: the little train called Moutzouris
Tracks just 60 centimetres wide, iron bridges and a route through the plane trees. The story of the railway designed by the father of Giorgio de Chirico.
PlacesKarditsa
Lake Plastiras: the water that brought the mountains to the plain
A man-made lake that looks natural, between the plain of Karditsa and the Agrafa mountains. Its story, and why it is worth the drive.
PlacesLarissa
The First Ancient Theatre of Larissa: the heart of the city back in the light
For centuries it lay buried under houses and streets. Today its marble auditorium stands again in the middle of the city, looking back at it.
PlacesLarissa
The Second Ancient Theatre: Larissa's other theatre
Smaller and less known, hidden among apartment blocks. From above, its semicircle looks like a footprint in the grass.
PlacesLarissa
The Pineios: the river that made the plain
From the Pindus to the Vale of Tempe, the Pineios crosses Thessaly and flows through Larissa. A river that is landscape, myth and daily life at once.
PlacesLarissa
Larissa from above, in ten pictures
Ponds, squares, monuments and lights. A photographic journey over the city by drone.