PIERIA - ELATOHORI
Welcome to the Land of 12 Gods !!!
Monday, December 6, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
October 2010
October 2010 - Sea &Agrotourism !!!
Art
Wine
Farm
Hotel accomodation Offer 34 Euro Double Room with Breakfast !!!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Olympus Riviera - Pieria
Adventure-Secret Paradise-Mountain Olympus !!!
Sun is Shining :) !!!Early Summer wishes from Hotel Europe inn !!!
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Adventure-Secret Paradise-Mountain Olympus !!!
Sun is Shining :) !!!Early Summer wishes from Hotel Europe inn !!!
more info...
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Paralia is a Cosmopolitan beach stretching for many kilometres, with clean sand and shallow sea. It has been awarded the European Blue Flag for many years. Wide and sandy, it attracts a great number of tourists every summer.
From here you can gaze at the imposing sight of Mount Olympus and at Pieria, the Mountain of the Muses of Pieria. Paralia is also a good starting point to visit all the sights of the hinterland of the county. There is a harbour where you can yachts and small craft can moor.
A vast number of modern hotels of all categories, rooms to rent, many restaurants and taverns offering Greek and International cooking, plentiful shops, sea sports, important cultural displays as well as a great variety of night clubs guarantee a holiday free of worry and care.
Situated just 8 kms from Katerini, it is easily reached from The National Motorway E75 (Junctions: Katerini or Korinos) and from the recently completed coastal road from Olympic Beach (Katerinoskala) to Nea Agathoupoli. It is also served by the railway from Salonika to Athens (Station: Katerini).
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Special offer JUNE
VILLA EUROPE hotel is located 100 m from the famous coast of Paralia Katerinis and offers relaxing and pleasant summer holidays. It has 18 fully equiped rooms with satelite TV, Air Condition, Safe Box, Mini Bar, Hair Dryer, Telephone, Heating, Breakfast and Cafe Bar. From Paralia Katerinis you can visit in less than 1 hour Thessaloniki, Dion, Vergina an mount Olympos.
Olympus Riviera-Paralia-Villa Europe
Special Offer June 36 Euro Double Room with Breakfast !!!
Special Offer June 39 Euro Double Room with Breakfast !!!
Hotel EUROPE INN is a Hotel in Paralia, built at 1997, only 150m from the beach, in front of a green park and in the nicest area of the town. All his comfortable rooms, contains shower/WC, telephone, radio, satellite-TV, Air-condition, hair-dryer, mini-refrigerator and Balcony. The Hotel also has an elevator and internet service free. You can enjoy your breakfast from the buffet at the air-conditioned restaurant or at the full of Palms terrace of the Hotel . The stuff and service of the hotel fulfils all your expectation.
Hotel EUROPE INN is a Hotel in Paralia, built at 1997, only 150m from the beach, in front of a green park and in the nicest area of the town. All his comfortable rooms, contains shower/WC, telephone, radio, satellite-TV, Air-condition, hair-dryer, mini-refrigerator and Balcony. The Hotel also has an elevator and internet service free. You can enjoy your breakfast from the buffet at the air-conditioned restaurant or at the full of Palms terrace of the Hotel . The stuff and service of the hotel fulfils all your expectation.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Area View
Mountain Olympus
Traditionally regarded as the heavenly abode of the Greek gods and the site of the throne of Zeus, Olympos seems to have originally existed as an idealized mountain that only later came to be associated with a specific peak. The early epics, the Illiad and the Odyssey (composed by Homer around 700BC) offer little information regarding the geographic location of the heavenly mountain and there are several peaks in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus that bear the name Olympos. The most favored mythological choice is the tallest mountain range in Greece, the Olympos massif, 100 kilometers southwest of the city of Thessaloniki in northern Greece. The highest peak - shown in the photograph - is Mytikas at 2918 meters (9570 feet).
The deities believed to have dwelled upon the mythic mount were Zeus, the king of the gods; his wife Hera; his brothers Poseidon and Hades; his sisters Demeter and Hestia; and his children, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Athena, Hermes and Hephaestus. It is interesting to note that these Olympian gods and goddesses were understood in ancient times as archetypes representing idealized aspects of the multi-faceted human psyche. Worship of the deities was a method of invoking and amplifying those aspects in the behavior and personality of the human worshipper. Zeus was the god of mind and the intellect, and a protector of strangers and the sanctity of oaths; Hera was a goddess of fertility, the stages of a woman's life and marriage; Apollo represented law and order, and the principles of moderation in moral, social and intellectual matters; Aphrodite was a goddess of love and the overwhelming passions that drove humans to irrational behavior; Hermes was the god of travelers, of sleep and dreams and prophecy; Athena was spiritual wisdom incarnate; Hephaestus was the god of the arts and fire; and Ares represented the dark, bloodthirsty aspect of human nature.
These gods and goddesses did not actually live upon Olympos, rather the ancient myth can be understood to be a metaphor for the power of the sacred mountain. This spiritual power had drawn hermits and monks to live in the caves and forests of the mountain since long before the dawn of the Christian era. With the coming of Christianity the myths and legends of the old Greeks were suppressed and forgotten, and the holy mountain was seldom visited. Today, weekend hikers and young travelers on the vagabond trail through Europe dash up and down the peak in a single day. It is certainly a beautiful place for such a hasty hike, yet to draw upon the real magic of Olympos one must come as a pilgrim and stay some quiet days in the woods. The author has lived for a month in the forests of the sacred peak and experienced that the spirits of the old gods and goddesses are still powerfully present.
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