North Euboea is a long and narrow island in composing a diversity of geographical, cultural and gastronomical features of a travelogue.
72 hours in North Euboea… 72 hours in a nearby and magical destination, in hidden places that “coop” you up with their magic, in authentic picturesque villages that offer you an endless journey through time, in gastronomic stories and local products that convince and the most demanding visitor, in a culture directly from the refugees of Asia Minor and in springs whose waters heal soul and body.
A truly charming place with a hospitality based on real experience. Euboea, even if it received a terrible blow during the summer months, rises and continues to offer its beauty generously.
Because it is worth illuminating the narrative of your place.
To offer its “rebirth” in a modern way, new methods and with creativity and imagination to create a new cradle every day that will be inspired by it.
Its past stands there in great dynamics. But with a new perspective and a new direction you can create the strong and bold present and its future which depend exclusively on you. After all, you create the experience!
In Northern Euboea the thematic tourism finds its place…
Almost all forms of thematic tourism have the potential to inhabit and be developed in Northern Euboea in a landscape that fascinates between mountain and sea.
Limni, Agios, Rovies, Pefki, Kastaniotissa, Agia Anna, Prokopi, Aidipsos are just some of the picturesque villages of the region, whose “thematic” beauty is indescribable.
The changes of the landscape here are fast and the experiences for the visitor are unique, since on the one hand can ride freely in a fairytale landscape near Kamatriades and on the other hand enjoys the wellness of the thermal waters.
Inhabited from prehistoric times, with the most important cities Orei and Istiaia, Northern Euboea at the crossing of Euboean Gulf and Aegean, with the naval battle of Artemisio between Greeks and Persians taking place here, is a place with historical monuments, cultural sites and religious pilgrimages such as the monastery of St. John the Russian and Saint David worth discovering.
From Prokopi of Cappadocia to Prokopi of Northern Euboea…
A historic village of the Municipality of Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna which according to sources is created in the 17th century.
Right in the center of Northern Euboea and in the heart of the valley of the river Kireas, Prokopi was the seat of the Turkish commander from whom the village later took its name since until 1927 it was called “Ahmet Aga”.
Prokopi has a plethora of stories to narrate from Asia Minor to Greece and has fertile ground for the even greater development and evolution of religious tourism.
It is known everywhere in the world for the sanctuary of St. John the Russian, where the relics of the Saint are kept, which were brought with them in 1924 by Cappadocian refugees from Prokopi (Urgiup) to Cappadocia in Asia Minor, visited by Greeks and foreigners alike.
The Museum of Asia Minor Culture takes you on a journey of great folklore that will impress you…
After all, walking in a museum is like walking in history. The museum and its exhibits are living organisms.
No museum object is silent, on the contrary all of them are by definition endowed with a legend and an address in the cultural and historical space-time. Museums make the visible recognizable.
After all, Culture is our Identity.
The Museum of Asia Minor Culture, which is worth visiting and left to the truly experiential tours of its people.
It is a unique cradle of preservation and promotion of the entire folklore of the Prokopians of Cappadocia and their relocation to New Prokopi after the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
The Museum was inaugurated in 2018 and is housed in a two-storey building, where the guest house of the Holy Pilgrimage of Saint John the Russian used to operate.
The Orei captivates you in a deep blue secret between the Aegean and the Evian Gulf…
The Orei of the 4th seasons! Whatever season you visit, you will be enchanted by the beauty and the wonderful colors that emerge mainly in the morning and afternoon from the sea and sky.
Between the Aegean and the Evian Gulf, it figures with a unique “calm and confidence” for its dynamics and captures you without realizing it.
Next to the port you can enjoy delicious fish appetizers and ouzo like velvet.
In “Kala Kathoumena” a cinematic fish tavern with the wave accompanying the recipes that you host at your table, you will definitely refer to a movie by Finos FILM.
A unique sculpture of the ancient Greek world lives in Orei…
The Bull of the Orei encapsulates every eye with its unique plasticity and the liveliness of its form on Pentelic marble. The only sculptural exhibit is kept in a glass canopy near the port of Orei and was excavated in August 1965.
It was buried on the city beach and belongs to the Hellenistic era.
The sculpture consists of three large solid volumes. The muscles in the front of the body are attached with excellent carving.
Three folds near the neck determine the folding of the animal’s head, which is in an attacking position.
The sculpture, which was placed on a pedestal at a stand of three quarters, dates between 290 BC and in 280 BC.
Scholars link it to the existence of a sanctuary in the area considering the tribute of Demetrius the Besieger with a clear iconographic political meaning, referring to the reconstitution of the Common of Euboea by the Macedonian ruler.
Aidipsos, the timeless and healing spa of Greece…
The most popular spa town of the country at the entrance of the bay on the southwest side of North Euboea is the most historic station and destination of hydrotherapy.
The Baths of Aidipsos began to develop after the 5th century BC. where the benefits of hot baths became known.
Especially during the years of the Roman Empire, they were famous for the accommodation of the visitors, the food, but also the entertainment.
The use of baths was continuous until the first years of the Byzantine Empire, when with the predominance of Christianity, baths were discontinued as pagan customs.
Sometime in the 19th century, their development resumed thanks to the refugees who came to the region from Asia Minor.
During this period, apart from the hotel Thermai Silla (1898), which is already built, large hotel units are built, such as Heraklion (1901), Stadium (1910), Kastalia (1920), Istiaia, Aegli, Aura, and others.
Nowadays, they are a pole of attraction for many visitors from all over the world and all seasons.
A place of unique beauty that combines the endless natural beauty and the comforts of the modern city, its cultural culture, diverse entertainment and its offer in the field of health, is rightly considered as the ideal vacation spot.
There are more than 80 thermal springs in the region…
The thermal springs that gush in the sea are a unique phenomenon on a global scale.
The thermal properties of these springs contribute to the healing of diseases of the joints.
Spa therapy treats several gynecological and dermatological diseases.
The Aidipsos Hydrotherapy Center, which is one of the largest centers in Greece, has unique facilities where you can do whirlpool and sunbathing, indoor and outdoor thermal pools.
The luxurious Thermae Sylla Spa, which has been declared a monument of the region, impresses and adorns the whole the area, including unique services.
The local products of Euboea and the gastronomic stories holding up…
Traditions, Faces and Tastes revolve 360 degrees around you with your table filled with infinite goodies, aromas and flavors associated with memory and experience.
If you love the agrotourism landscape, I think you will not stop walking in production units to try the local products of the area directly.
Olives and olive oil, the delicious and sought-after figs whose grace reaches many European countries, peppers in a modified atmosphere, PDO cheeses that you can not get enough to try and everything else you can imagine.
Start your journey at the “Kairis” olive mill and taste extra virgin olive oil, learning about the local varieties of Istiaia and Amfissi and their organoleptic characteristics.
At the Skoretsaniti cheese factory, the PDO feta of the area will impress you, the “skaroto” in various flavors will accompany your wine and tsipouro and milk butter and the local mizithra will convince you of a quality that emanates directly from the high mountains.
The figs of the Taxiarchis Agricultural Cooperative, have a history and a taste not easily to be forgotten while at Kentris Greek Gourmet Foods, you will savor gourmet gastronomic delicacies for all hours of the day.
Create your own experience through authentic local flavors and aromas.
Explore Evvoia at Mount Telethrion…
Activities in absolute natural landscape “climb” high at about 1000 meters altitude and among endless pines and oaks you have the opportunity to organize your experience.
The team of Explore Evvoia with passion and love for walking routes and hiking, in the magical atmosphere that plows on Mount Telethrion guides you to verdant paths and places that you certainly see rarely.
As you “hike” in a unique landscape and hidden secrets, you smell arbutus, discover herbs, mushrooms and centuries-old plane trees.
The nature that stretches in front of you, causes awe and your hiking every minute offers you a different story on the paths you follow.
The village of Kastaniotissa after the hike is waiting for you for Greek coffee in the square and local honey spread on the baked bread.
In the fairytale Kamatriades and the Equestrian Center with wooden houses, stables and a country setting, your dear friends are ready to take a walk between waterfalls and running water and overlook the whole area from above.
In the cafe after horseback riding, do not forget to enjoy the “Evia” cheesecake sprinkled with salt grains, an omelette that you are not used to and of course a pan whose spices fill your wooden table with a mesmerizing view.
A proud peacock will keep you company and will challenge you for photo clicks.
About the Author
Katerina Karsioti is a Journalist – Archaeologist | Tour Guide
She works in print, television and Digital media, loves radio and specializes in Cultural, Tourism and Business reportage. Her employment in a Diplomacy Organization in the fields of Tourism and Gastronomy Diplomacy was an important tool of evolution and development.
She holds certifications in the field of Agrotourism and Agro-nutrition from the University of Crete and the University of the Aegean and is doing an MSc in the same field.
She insists on the development of olive tourism, focuses on the promotion and extroversion of country’s local products and anticipates the day when she will create her own farmhouse in the Peloponnese, where she comes from.
Change, for Katerina, comes when we decide what we want and not what we think we can have.
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