GREEK PATHS OF CULTURE

Degree of difficulty: moderate

Start: Central Square

See: The church of St. George with its bell tower, the Gold and Silversmiths School, the historic monastery of Zoodocho Pigi (1443 A.D.) in Stemnitsa (the goldsmiths’ village). The view towards Megalopolis, the gorge of the Lousios river (where the Nymphs bathed the infant Zeus), with the monasteries of the Baptist, the old Philosophou monastery   (963 A.D.) and the New Philosophou Monastery (1691 A.D.) and the Open air Water-Power Museum near St. John’s, Dimitsana.