The natural environment of Agiasos offers unforgettable hiking routes through stone-paved paths (pathumenis) that lead you to enchanting locations, from where the eye embraces the infinite green in all its shades, as it blends with the blue-white of the sky or the deep blue of the distant sea.
Cobblestone paths add the human touch to Mother Nature’s painting. Such walking routes (the development, repair and marking of which was funded by the Department for Rural Development and Food through the Leader Plus Community Initiative) are:
Agiasos (Hero) – Burnt Thresher – Marble – Olympus
Agiasos (Apesos) – Patsavoura – Marble
Agiasos (Slaughterhouse) – Kasteli – Karkavoura – Agios Dimitrios
Agiasos (Agios Ioannis) – Agios Konstantinos – Agios Efstratios – Panayouda – Sanatorium.
Agiasos – Agios Paneras – Pat’ma – Tsolekos – Andria
Agiasos – Agios Vasilios (Ligno Fountain) – Agios Dimitrios
Agiasos (Cemetery) – Kastelli Hill
Agiasos (Stavri) – Kalami – Liakas – Asoma
Also, from the picturesque Stavri of the village, we descend the stone-paved traditional “patumeni” (designated preserved by the decision of the Minister of the Aegean no. and crossing the regions of Boro, Elepsa, Agria with the verdant olive groves we reach the dewy Karini.
Several stone-paved paths cross the mountains of Agiasos, but years of neglect have already damaged their passability and cohesion.
One can also go to the top of Olympus by car from two routes: a) from Ai Dimitri, the junction of Megali Limni to Ambeliko, Kampia (through the pine forest of amazing natural beauty) and b) from Sanatorio, Kayani, Potama, Kampia (through the unique chestnut forest and the municipal pasture).
The climb to the top of Olympus, either on foot or by car, is more than worth it. A unique view surrounds you. The view stretches unobstructed towards all points of the horizon. To the east, the gulf of Gera, the peninsula of Amalis, its strait
Mytilene and the Asia Minor land. North the pine tree that descends to the gulf of Kalloni and the bare beauty of Northwest Lesvos. West and south, behind the wooded mountains and sunless ravines, the deep blue color of the Aegean. And at your feet is the dreamy Agiasos, spread out amphitheatrically in the arms of the surrounding mountains.
An unsurpassed natural jewel of the Mount Olympus and its predominant plant community is a non-native chestnut forest of 11,000 acres, which is a habitat with limited distribution in the Aegean and a habitat for important terrestrial plants. The well-known and much-loved chestnut tree ensured for centuries a significant income for the residents of Agiasos.
Today, many local and mainly foreign tourists visit Agiasos, to admire and study this insurmountable wealth of the forests of Olympus, which are without exaggeration a botanical paradise.
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