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The fauna in the National Park of Tzoumerka, Peristeri, and Arachthos Gorge includes a significant number of terrestrial, aquatic, and flying invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Regarding vertebrates, a total of 197 species have been recorded, while the existing studies on invertebrates are limited, and the number of species living in the area’s habitats […]

Although the area of the National Park of Tzoumerka, Peristeri, and Arachthos Gorge has not been thoroughly studied in terms of its flora species, from past studies and scientific publications, we know that approximately 700 plant species grow in the area. The slopes of Lakmos and Tzoumerka are characterized by a great variety of habitats […]

Songs, music, dance, and celebration were central activities of collective life in the mountain communities of the Tzoumerka region. Community rituals and celebrations coincided with the agricultural calendar to commemorate important moments in individual and collective life. The festivities organized during these periods, with the participation of musicians from the surrounding area, were a reference […]

The traditional sweets that are prepared and offered during the holidays are of excellent quality. There are baked sweets, such as baklava or sweet with stone (home-made sheet), kourabiedes, ravani, halva, melachroini, sponge cake. Honey, one of the most nutritious substances, is used in these sweets and gives them aroma. There are, of course, the […]

Grill Day Tsiknopempti is a week before Shrove Sunday, where it is characterized by the large consumption of meat, family gatherings and the smell of the gosling from the roasting meats. It takes place a few days before the beginning of the great fast of Lent. Halloween Sunday On Shrovetide Sunday, everyone dresses up as […]

The pork fat is cut into large pieces and put into the cauldron with a little water. By boiling the water evaporates, and the light fat melts. All that remains is anything that is solid, concentrations of fat, i.e. pieces the size of walnuts. These are taken out of the cauldron and kept separately. The […]