Places to visit in the wider area

Hotel Primoula

You can start a daily journey (to the East), from Monodendri (6km). In the square with the big platan, it's worth to visit the exhibition of hand artworks and the cultural centre of Rizarios School where significant exhibitions take place. You can resume on foot until the gorge of Vikos, visit the monastery of Saint Paraskevi (1412) and walk along the path (over the rock), until the South side of this wonderful gorge.

Using your car, you can ignore the area with the new tourist buildings in the North side of the village, and move on to the South in the partially destroyed road, between wonderful and tall sights and many schist plates, for about 5-6km. until the point Oxia. The "Oxia", and "Beloi" (which we will visit later), are the best spots for a panoramic view of the Vikos canyon.

The beautiful village "Dilofo", in the road to Kipoi, is ideal for a short break in order to walk in the cobble-stone pavements or have a coffee or food in Lithos.

Just before Kipoi, you can take a left turn to Koukouli, a great village with an impressive square, the museum of Kostas Lazaridis, and the special mansion house Plakida.

In Kipoi you can admire the well built bridges of Zagoria, (Kalogeriko, Lazaridi, Milou, Kokorou), and visit the folkloric museum of Ath. Tolis.

In Kapesovo, you can stop at "Sterna", the wonderful coffee house of Eli and Gianna Papageorgiou, for hand made traditional sweets, mushrooms and herbs from the canyon of Vikos. Then you can watch one of the rare copies of the "Map of Rigas", in the school of the village, and depending on your mood walk down the gorge and ascend the "Stairs of Vradetos", as long as there is someone to wait for you at the top.

Passing Vradetos, you will need to walk a bit until the point "Beloi" that has to offer maybe the best view of the canyon.

2 km. before Tsepelovo, on the right, you can descend to the Byzantine monastery of Rogovou (1028). While in the village, you can admire the beautiful mansion houses and the temple of Saint Nicolas with the gilded iconostasis.