The Municipality of Aristotle offers you dozens of opportunities for day trips, as its changing landscape (300 km of coastline between three mountains protected by the European Convention Natura 2000) has allowed the development of natural phenomena and human activities that are rarely found in a single holiday destination!
Here are some of our suggestions, while we are sure that you will find dozens of others!
Taken from a Macedonian fairy tale! Its architecture and the colorful aesthetics will make you love it.
Visit:
You will visit chapels and monasteries!
You will follow the hiking trails around the village!
You will try organic honey varieties at the stores, near the central stone-built square with the centuries-old sycamore tree. If you want, you can visit the hives in the mountain, accompanied by local beekeepers, who will introduce you to the secrets of bee-keeping.
You will visit the famous mushroom fields of Cholomontas, collecting mushrooms and tasting mushrooms pies in the heart of the Mountain.
You will visit the Domaine Claudia Papayianni, trying excellent varieties of award-winning local organic wines, in an environment that will take you on a journey to the wine cellars of famous wineries around the world.
You will try delicious sausages filled with pork meat and orange, local organic cheeses and feta…but also the Antonis’ yogurt! You will combine your food with moundovina – the beekeepers tsipouro!
You will enjoy the famous touloumba sweets at the central square!
You will celebrate the most beautiful Christmas eves and the brilliant Easter Holidays!
You will follow a daily culinary excursion, walking in the narrow streets, looking for “the pigadi area”, entering the old churches and finding yourself on the way to the cave with the stalactites! You will taste pure products, learn about traditional recipes and authentic flavors and meet hospitable people. You will taste trahana pie, spoon sweet and liqueur “zourvo”, you will become addicted to the taste of sausage with leek and citrus, stuffed spleen, fermented bread and yogurt.
Don’t lose it!
Authentically traditional! Stone built. Green and welcoming.
Visit the Holy Pilgrimage in the green hills of Mount Kakkavos, follow the “bridge roads” and reach the waterfalls!
Celebrate at the “winegrower event” every 1st Sunday of February and follow the local wine routes, visiting wineries and vineyards. Be part of the local tradition and get involved with the locals in events of “kazanemata”, since the tsipouro distilleries at Megali Panagia and Gomati are an autumn attraction of everyday life.
Light a candle in Panagouda Chapel, climbing more than 100 times on the stone steps of the hill!
Live it!
The village that for 22 years hosted Alexis Zorbas – about a century ago!
Visit the “home” of the Kazantzakian hero and then enter the magnificent temple of the Pammegiston Taxiarches Church. You will be amazed by the special architecture and you will fill with awe.
Go to the “Monastic House of Panagia Chara ton Thlivomenon”. Walk along the Neposi Castle and reach Arnaia, following the hiking trail of Alexis Zorbas.
Go biking from Paleochori to the Aristotle’s Park, following the same paths, which led Alexis Zorbas from his home to the magical streets of the Aristotelian Mountain!
You will be fascinated by the colors of the forest, as well as by the alternation of the Aegean Sea and the Aristotle Mountain!
O Ακάνθιος Κόλπος αποτελεί το θαλάσσιο αιγαιοπελαγίτικο όγκο, που περικλείεται από τους πράσινους βραχίονες δύο ιερών βουνών: του Αριστοτελικού Όρους και του Άθωνα. Φυσικά και ιστορικά ευνοημένη η γαλάζια υγρή του μάζα, φιλοξενεί στον αμμώδη γιαλό της τρείς οικισμούς: το Στρατώνι, τα Νέα Ρόδα και την Ιερισσό, τα φημισμένα παραδοσιακά καρνάγια της οποίας συνθέτουν το πιο χαρακτηριστικό της γνώρισμα.
Πράγματι, τα ναυπηγεία της Ιερισσού είναι άρρηκτα δεμένα με τη μνήμη των ανθρώπων της. Χωροθετημένα λίγα μόλις μέτρα από το πολύβουο ψαρολίμανο με την έντονη δραστηριότητα, μυρίζουν ξύλο από το πεύκο που χρησιμοποιείται για τη δημιουργία των σκαφών, ρετσίνι από τις εκκρίσεις του, ιδρώτα από την ανθρώπινη προσπάθεια και ιώδιο από τα μύρα της θάλασσας.
Ντόπιοι ναυπηγοί – ηλιοκαμένοι και δυνατοί, ευφυείς και επιδέξιοι, σκληροί και επίμονοι, τεχνίτες ξακουστοί – «κρατούν» μέχρι και σήμερα την τέχνη των προπαπούδων τους και πηγαινοέρχονται σφυροκοπώντας το ξύλο «από ήλιο σε ήλιο», για να δημιουργήσουν σκαριά της θάλασσας – περίτεχνα, ανθεκτικά στους καιρούς και στο χρόνο, αλλά και λειτουργικά.
Τα καρνάγια της Ιερισσού είναι η ίδια η ψυχή του οικισμού. Μια τέχνη σοφίας και οξυδέρκειας, δομημένη από δουλευτάδες καραβομαραγκούς. Συνάντησέ τους τους στις ακτές του λιμανιού, κάτω από τους λόφους της Αρχαίας Ακάνθου – εκεί που οι αισθήσεις χάνονται «στον κόσμο του χθες». Παρατήρησέ τους να ανεβοκατεβαίνουν στα υπό κατασκευήν σκαριά, να συνοδεύουν τη δουλειά με τραγούδι, να κολατσίζουν ντόπια καλούδια και παστό ορκύνι, γελώντας με χωρατά και ιστορίες από καπεταναίους, ναύτες, μαστόρια και παραγιούς.
Είναι πάντα πρόθυμοι – παρά την όποια κούραση – να σου εξηγήσουν τι κάνουν και πώς το κάνουν, να σε ξεναγήσουν στα «δημιουργήματα τέχνης» τους, να σε μεταφέρουν στα «παλιά εκείνα χρόνια της βιοπάλης», να σου διηγηθούν μέσα από αφηγήματα την εμπειρία που απέκτησαν και κουβαλούν για πάντα στις ταλαιπωρημένες πλάτες τους.
You must definitely visit the “city of heaven”, very close to the Mount Athos.
What you can see:
You will of course swim at the sandy beaches, while you cruise around the island. You will be charmed by the clearness and the color of the seawater. Besides”, “there is no visit to Ammouliani without swimming and relaxation”!
What else you will do:
Are you thinking of anything better?
At the area of Stagira, in the 9th AD century, the city Sidirokafsia was developed, which took its name by the mineral deposits existed at the area, and from the trading as well, which was intensified since the early years of the Ottoman Rule.
Concreter, the fortress complex of “Sidirokafsia” was built at all heights of today’s settlement of Stageira, which includes parts of the fortification- mostly towers, ruins of houses and workshops, where the mine trading was taking place.
The mines of Sidirokafsia were under the control of the Sultan and were (along with villages) the “League of Mademia”, controlled by the Assembly (Sabor). It is about the 20 famous Mademohoria, headed by the Madem-Aga, who collected annually the contribution of the Great Gate. Over the years the mines declined, until the revolution of 1821, when Mademohoria participated in the War of Indepedence, suffering though from heavy disasters from the Ottomans. Then the League of Mademia broke down.
Nowadays you will see all these findings into the Park of Aristotle and the hill right across. The local history will pass in front of your eyes!
