Travel Reference
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ACCOMMODATION AND EATING WESTERN PELION
You'll find more antique mansions to be found in this part of the Pelion, but also quite a few modern copycats, no less
comfortable or charming for that. Be sure not to turn up unannounced: in high season they're likely to be booked up, and
off-season the owners will be elsewhere.
stained-glass windows, located 200m uphill from the
village through-road. Rooms are elega
nt an
d impressive,
and breakfast is served in the courtyard.
€70
O Yiorgaras
T
24230 86359.
Located next to the
Stoïkos
,
this taverna is the place to come for traditional dishes
featuring game and wild mushrooms and whatever is in
season. Expect about €15 and up, per person.
Daily lunch
& dinner.
Stoïkos
T
24230 86406,
W
stoikoshotel.com.
The
approach road from Miliés to the village is lined with inns,
including this modern option constructed in the traditional
way, where most of the well-executed room
s ha
ve wood-
beam ceilings and views. Breakfast included.
€70
MILIÉS
Eskitzi
T
24230 86789,
W
eskitziroomspelion.com.
Just east of town these country-style rooms have a cosy feel
despite the plain modern building. All have views of the
surrounding mountain scenery, but ask for o
ne
with a
balcony. Free parking; basic breakfast included.
€50
Othon Korbas
T
24230 86219.
This bakery, down by the
bus stop, sells every kind of bread, pie and turnover
imaginable, including
eleópsomo
and
tyrópsomo
suitable
for hikers. Prices start at as little as €1.
Daily, lunch early
evening.
O Palios Stathmos
T
24230 86425,
W
paliosstathmos
.com.
“The Old Station” is located, as the name implies, out
by the old train station. The colourful, simple rooms here
are worth it if you get a balconied front unit with a
nostalgic view of the quaint tracks. Breakfast included, in
their own traditional restaurant,
which
is also open for
lunch and dinner (€10-15/person).
€60
Panorama
T
24230 86128.
This simple grill occupies a
vine-covered wedge-shaped building just above the platía,
and is consistently good. Fresh vegetable pies and meats,
average price/dish €6.
Daily lunch & dinner.
3
PINAKÁTES
Alatinou
T
24230 86995 or 697 28 38 282,
E
demileon@mailbox.gr.
A few steps below the square,
this hotel offers rather monastic, but comfortably
renovated, en-suite rooms with dark-wood deco
r an
d a
terrace for breakfast, included. Open summer only.
€70
Ì
Dhrosia
(alias Taverna tou Papa)
T
24230 86772.
Taverna at the far western edge of Pinakátes. The food here
- including
dolmádhes
and
gídha lemonáti
(goat stew with
lemon sauce) - uses free-range meat and poultry. Wash it
down with a jug of the deceptively potent red wine from
some of the few surviving local vineyards. Expect about
€15/person.
Daily, dinner only.
VYZÍTSA
Ì
Arhondiko Karagianopoulou
T
24230 86717,
W
karagiannopoulou.com.
A very handsome eighteenth-
century mansion, with touches such as painted ceilings and
The southern Pelion
he
southern Pelion
is drier, lower and more stereotypically Mediterranean; the terrain
overall is less dramatic, the villages more scattered. The region has been hit hard by
forest fires - in particular a June 2007 blaze that burnt the entire coast from Argalastí
to Áfyssos, and across the peninsula to Potistiká - such that the only undamaged pines
grow around Neohóri, southeast of Miliés, and above Katiyiórgis. There are, however,
interesting corners, and considerably less tourism inland, while a number of busy
coastal resorts attract a mixed clientele of foreigners and Greeks. The area can be
reached a little tortuously by bus or car from Vólos, or more directly by sea, via
speedboats from Vólos.
Áfyssos
The first village you come to in the deep south,
ÁFYSSOS
, is by far the prettiest
Pagasitic resort, laid out like a theatre, on hillside slopes with a shady waterfront square
and a fairly broad, long crescent beach, lined with consistently vernacular structures:
tavernas, private bungalows, small hotels and rooms. It's packed out in summer - with
Greeks, especially - and you can forget about the teeming weekends. Its main claim to
fame is that this was the very spot from which Jason and the Argonauts embarked in
pursuit of the Golden Fleece.
