TRAVEL TUESDAY 402 - EPIRUS, GREECE

“What I do is the opposite of building walls. I build bridges. A bridge is something that connects instead of separating.” - Santiago Calatrava

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Zagori (Greek: Ζαγόρι), is a region and a municipality in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Asprangeli. It has an area of some 1,000 square kilometers and contains 46 villages known as Zagori villages (or Zagorochoria), and is in the shape of an upturned equilateral triangle.

The southern corner of the triangle contains the provincial capital, Ioannina, the south-western side is formed by Mount Mitsikeli (1,810m), and the Aoos river and Mount Tymfi constitute the northern side, and the south-eastern side runs along the Varda river to Mount Mavrovouni (2,100m) near Metsovo. The municipality has an area of 989.796 km2. The population of the area is about 3,700, which gives a population density of 4 inhabitants per square kilometre, compared to an average of 73.8 for Greece as a whole.

Epirus has many centuries-old bridges that resist time. Although these may be found in many places in Greece they are mainly encountered in the mountainous regions of continental Greece, especially Epirus and Thessaly. Once, they gave a solution to the imperative need of people for travelling or the transportation of goods. Today they are turned into monuments, thanks to their flawless technique and their timeless elegance.

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