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Pelion or Pelium ( Pilio, Ancient/Katharevousa: ??????) is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly
Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
 in central Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf
Pagasetic Gulf

The Pagasetic Gulf is a rounded Headlands and bays in the prefecture of Magnesia that is formed by the Pelion peninsula. It is connected with the Euboic Sea....
 and the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
. The GR-38
Greek National Road 38

Greek National Road 38 is a highway linking the cities of Agrinio, Karpenisi and Lamia . It is the only highway linking Agrinio and Larissa because Greece Interstate 30 is narrow....
 runs in the southern portion of the peninsula and the GR-38A runs in the middle.

In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Mount Pelion (which took its name from the mythical king Peleus
Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
, father of Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
) was the homeland of Chiron
Chiron

In Greek mythology, Chiron or Cheiron was held as the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents....
 the Centaur
Centaur

In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attica Pottery of ancient Greece, they are depicted with the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be....
, tutor of many ancient Greek heroes, such as Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
, Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
, Theseus
Theseus

For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night....
 and Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
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Pelion or Pelium ( Pilio, Ancient/Katharevousa: ??????) is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly
Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
 in central Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf
Pagasetic Gulf

The Pagasetic Gulf is a rounded Headlands and bays in the prefecture of Magnesia that is formed by the Pelion peninsula. It is connected with the Euboic Sea....
 and the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
. The GR-38
Greek National Road 38

Greek National Road 38 is a highway linking the cities of Agrinio, Karpenisi and Lamia . It is the only highway linking Agrinio and Larissa because Greece Interstate 30 is narrow....
 runs in the southern portion of the peninsula and the GR-38A runs in the middle.

In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Mount Pelion (which took its name from the mythical king Peleus
Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
, father of Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
) was the homeland of Chiron
Chiron

In Greek mythology, Chiron or Cheiron was held as the superlative centaur among his brethren. Like the satyrs, centaurs were notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, and generally uncultured delinquents....
 the Centaur
Centaur

In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attica Pottery of ancient Greece, they are depicted with the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be....
, tutor of many ancient Greek heroes, such as Jason
Jason

Jason was a late ancient Greece Greek mythology figure, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus....
, Achilles
Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
, Theseus
Theseus

For other uses, see Theseus Theseus was a legendary king of Athens, son of Aethra , and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, with whom Aethra lay in one night....
 and Heracles
Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
. It was in Mount Pelion, near Chiron's cave, that the marriage of Thetis
Thetis

Silver-footed Thetis , disposer or "placer" , is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ....
 and Peleus
Peleus

In Greek mythology, Pele?s was a Greek hero cult who was already known to Homer. Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Ende?s, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly; he became the father of Achilles....
 took place. The uninvited goddess Eris
Eris

Eris typically refers to:* Eris , the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System * Eris , in Greek mythology the goddess of discord, and the Goddess of Discordianism...
, to take revenge for having been kept outside the party, brought a golden apple with the inscription "To the Fairest". The dispute that then arose between the goddesses Hera
Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
, Aphrodite
Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
 and Athene resulted in events leading to the Trojan War
Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
. When the giants Otus and Ephialtes
Aloadae

File:Gustave_Dor?_-_Dante_Alighieri_-_Inferno_-_Plate_65_.jpgIn Greek mythology, the Aloadae were Otus and Ephialtes , sons of Iphimedeia, queen of Aloeus, by Poseidon, whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into her bosom....
 attempted to storm Olympus
Olympus

A number of different things are named Olympus:...
, they piled Mount Pelion upon Mount Ossa, which became a proverbial allusion
Allusion

An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, mythology, or work of art, either directly or by implication....
 for any huge but fruitless attempt.

Geography


Today, Mt. Pelion is part of the prefecture of Magnesia
Magnesia

Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture....
 (capital city: Volos
Volos

Volos is a coastal port city situated at the center of the Greece mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia Prefectures of Greece....
) and embraces twenty-four villages including:

Most significant:

  • Agios Georgios Nileas
  • Agios Lavrentios
  • Portaria
    Portaria

    Portaria is one of the 24 villages of Mt. Pelion, Magnesia, Greece, facing the Pagasetic Gulf. It is located N of Volos and its suburbs. The houses, its windows and its doors are painted beautifully with a variety of colors with beautifully colored edges....
  • Makrinitsa
    Makrinitsa

    Makrinitsa , nicknamed "balcony of Pelion," is a village 5 km NE of Volos, Magnesia, Greece. One of the most characteristic traditional settlements, full of mansions and houses that look like hanging ornaments on the green mountain side and are colorful but not as Portaria....
  • Milies
    Milies

    Milies is a village and a municipality on Mount Pelion in Greece. It is a traditional Greek mountain village, at a height of 400 m. It is 28 km from Volos, the capital city of the prefecture of Magnesia....
  • Mouresi
    Mouresi

    Mouresi is a municipality in the Magnesia prefecture, Greece. Its population is 3,107 . The seat of the municipality is in Tsagkarada. The village population was 324 in 2001 and that of the municipal district was 404....
  • Tsangarada
  • Zagora
    Zagora

    Zagora may refer to:* Zagora, Morocco, a town in southern Morocco* Zagora, Greece, a village in the eastern part of the prefecture of Magnesia in central Greece...
  • Vyzitsa
  • Argalasti
    Argalasti

    Argalasti is one of the main villages of South Pelion, Magnesia, Greece, built on a fertile plateau, 40 km southeast of Volos. It is an important commercial and tourism center of the area with a rich cultural tradition....
More:

  • Agios Dimitrios
    Agios Dimitrios Pelio

    Agios Dimitrios Peliou , other forms: Ayios Dimitrios Peliou is a village that is part of the municipality of Mouresi, it is located about 10 km NW of Tsagkarada and Anilio....
  • Anilio
  • Artemida
    Artemida

    Artemida may refer to:*Artemis, a goddess in Greek mythology*Artemida, Attica, a town in Attica, Greece*Artemida, Magnesia, a municipality in Magnesia, Greece...
  • Drakeia
  • Kanalia
    Kanalia

    * Kanalia Greek The village of Kanalia is located 26 Kilometres from Volos and at a height of 80 metres above the sea level. It is one of the prettiest on the NorthWest side of Pelion....
    ,
  • Kissos
    Kissos

    Kissos, also Kisos , older form: Kissos is a village that is part of the municipality of Mouresi, it is located about 6 km NW of Tsagkarada....
  • Neochori
  • Pinakates
    Pinakates

    Pinakates is a Greece mountain village located 25 km east of Volos in the Magnesia prefecture. Pinakates belongs since 2001 to the municipality of Milies....
  • Vlasios
  • Xinovryssi


The mountains are entirely forested, with beech
Beech

Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe and North America.The leaf of beech trees are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5–15 cm long and 4–10 cm broad....
, oak
Oak

The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of about 400 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus , which are listed in the List of Quercus species, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus....
, maple
Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as Maple. Maples are variously classified in a family of their own, the Aceraceae, or included in the family Sapindaceae....
 and chestnut
Chestnut

Chestnut , is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the Beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate climate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
 trees. Pelion is a tourist attraction throughout the year: the mountain includes trails and sidewalks, giving access to numerous beaches (with sand or pebbles) of varying size. Modern Pelio's twenty-four villages all retain traditional Pelian architecture and construction.

History


Place in Horton, Greece
The Pelion train, dating back to 1881, was the first serious public investment in the area. Electricity, radio and automobiles were first introduced in the 1950s except for Volos, which had those utilities from earlier times. Television arrived in the 1970s and the 1980s and computers and Internet in the late-1990s. The northern part of the Pelion mountains was struck by a forest fire (see Summer 2007 Wildfires in Greece) on Wednesday June 26,2007 which started in Siki and damaged its forests, mostly at the middle part of the mountain. The fire lasted for several days and stopped on July 1. Several villages were damaged. As of late August however, a natural rebirth of the forest was already being noticed, with several trees gradually turning green again, as well as bushes appearing on the ground.

Communications


The mountain has a telecommunications tower that broadcasts radio and television including ANT1
ANT1

Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a popular television station in Greece. It is pronounced "Ant-?nna" because of the Greek word for "Antenna" meaning aerial and "ena" for the number 1....
, Mega
Mega Channel

Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV, was the first private network to launch in Greece. Mega launched on November 20, 1989 and is owned by Teletypos S.A.....
, ERT
Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi

Hellenic Radio [and] Television is the Greece state-owned public radio and television broadcasting corporation. It is a member of European Broadcasting Union....
, Star Channel
Star Channel

Star Channel is a Greek television network that broadcasts a mix of foreign and Greek programming. It launched in December 1993 and is owned by Nea Tileorasi A.E.....
, Alter
Alter Channel

Alter Channel/Alter TV better known as Alter, is a private network in Greece. It launched in 1990 and is owned by Altec PC. Programing is comprised mainly of news & current affairs shows and entertainment programmes....
, TRT and more and radio including ERA, ANT1 FM and many more.

Panorama


Its panorama offers a views of the valley, the mountains of western Magnesia, the plain of Thessaly
Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
 and its nearby mountains, Mavrovouni
Mavrovouni

Mavrovouni may refer to several places in Greece:*Mavrovouni, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina Prefecture, part of the municipality Kalpaki...
, Euboea
Euboea

For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
, Central Greece
Central Greece

Continental Greece or Central Greece , colloquially known as Rumelia , is a Regions of Greece of Greece. Its territory is divided into the peripheries of Central Greece , Attica, and one Prefectures of Greece of West Greece....
 and the northern Sporades
Sporades

The Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. It consists of 24 islands, of which five are inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Peristera and Skyros....
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