Mountains and sea together, experience the great diversity of the Pelion peninsula with our personal recommendations for beaches, bays, walks, mountain villages and restaurants. Explore the Pelion, we do our best to maintain the site and keep it up to date.
Goals
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Just browse the map of the peninsula for specific goals, or click on the photos below to discover the area directly in Google Maps. On the featured pages you get special information about summer, winter, spring, or hiking and about unique opportunities for driving, boating or motorcycling.
The coasts
Enjoy crystal water on the Aegean Sea or the gulf side, including fantastic lonely places, with untouched tranquility.
The Pelion has no mass tourism. Therefore, the beaches, coves and other destinations are never crowded, even in high season.
The most targets around Lafkos are reachable by car in less as a half an hour. The next beaches below are just 10 minutes away.
The coasts and bays are so numerous and varied that it would take a lifetime to visit them all.
When the singing skater meets the fishing cowboy surfing on the sun warped rails of Greek Rembetiko. In the summer month in Melina until October, you might enjoy on a Thursday great poetic music with the fantastic duo above.
Hiker’s paradise
Go directly to trails, the geography and vegetation of the Pelion peninsula. If you are able to read Greek check also this maps for routs.
The Pilion peninsula is part of a mountain range that crosses Greece from the mountains of central Macedonia to Mount Olympus. It ends at Mount Ossa and Mavrovounio in Pilion.
The nature of the area combines the inviting and mild atmosphere of the sea with the rugged and unspoilt profile of the mountain slopes.
The result is a rich visual experience with a variety of vegetation, colors and scents. A visit at any time of the year is an unforgettable aesthetic journey.
Get ready to hike, cycle or run along Pelion’s countless trails and ancient paved walkaways, surrounded by quaint mountain villages, magnificent nature and breathtaking views. Whatever the season, one of the best places for hiking in Greece is the Home of the Centaurs on the Pelion peninsula.
Despite the years that passed by, many of the traditional roads are still in very good shape due to efforts done by local communities.
The interior of the peninsula impresses with dense deciduous forests of beech, chestnut, oak and plane trees. Along the coasts, olive groves and pine forests grow together.
Autumn is mild and the thousands of sprouting flowers are reminiscent of spring.
Here thrive some species of animals, mushrooms and especially herbs in great diversity, which are otherwise hardly found.
The vast network of roads and footpath’s, the variety of nature and panorama, make the Pelion one of the most interesting areas for hiking in Greece.
Find out more about trails, the geography and vegetation of the Pelion peninsula. If you are able to read greek check also this maps for routs.
Mountain villages
The Pelion area invites you to explore the rich history from over 40 mountain villages built by skilled stonemasons from the Epirus region.
The privilege of autonomy is considered as the basis for their prosperity that reached its peak in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Most of the villas, monasteries, bridges, fountains and paved footpaths, called “Kalderimia” that we admire today, were built at that time.
At the end of the 19th century, Evaristo Di Chirico, the father of the well-known painter Giorgio de Chirico, built an artistic narrow-gauge railroad to the villages of Pelion. Till this day, commutes the train in the summer months between Ano Lechonia and Milies as a historic railroad.
The villages are famous for the picturesque and unique architecture, great squares, delicious local cuisine, monasteries, and even a ski center on Mount Pelion. More about the villages and their history.
Today, in the Summer, the village of Agios Lavrentios is transformed into a magnificent music event.
Musicians from all over the world meet in dozens of workshops, devoting themselves to classical music, jazz and Balkan folklore.
They give planned or spontaneous concerts in houses and alleyways, in the modern amphitheater, on the village square and in olive groves. Dance and puppet theater are also on the program. (Photos by the Festival)
Old stones
Next to Volos you could visit and study the archaeological sides of Dimini and Sesklo. Both are important examples of craftsmanship in the region at the Greek Neolithic Period 6000-3000 BCE. Discover the Pelion.
Living in light and change
The peninsula is constantly changing its face. In the north, the fir forests at 1600 meters tell of the Central European highlands, and in the south, the dry nature and clear colors remembers the south of Italy.
The weather is mild, even in winter you’ll rarely find a day without any sunshine.
One of the greatest spectacles in Greece is the timeless atmosphere.
I believe that all ugliness disappears when you have light like this, said Henry Miller once, and was not alone in this view.
The port city of Volos
The next big city Volos is just 30km or 50 minutes far away from our vacation home. It is a port city and the capital of Magnesia.
Greece fifth largest town is famous for its “Tsipouradika“.
The town offers a beautiful and relaxed city center, with still countless old-established stores and handicraft businesses in family hands.
The harbor provides several sailing possibilities, bookable by day with skipper or up to 4 days without crew.
Discover the Pelion. More about the holiday cottage, the village, events, hikes and other tourist excursions like the Pelion train is reachable searching the web or within our personal guide’s. Everything about arriving or booking is here. We are also glad about a message or your contribution in our guestbook.
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