In this page you will find the most accessible and with touristic interesting villages around kaimaktsalan ski center.

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The ancient city of Edessa was founded in 814 BC by King of Macedonia Karan. Built on the site "Logos", because the water offered ochyrotita and fertility. Oldest finds date back to Neolithic times, but there is more to the Bronze Age and especially iron. Today, after excavations can be seen the city walls, parts of buildings on the acropolis and lower town and cemeteries.

The most important monuments of the region are:

South Gate, which includes a circular courtyard inscribed in a rectangular tower.
The Memorial paved road that crosses the entire city. Surrounded by marble columns and built piers. In a column is written manumission inscriptions.

The walls of Edessa, the most preserved in Macedonia. Constructed around 300 BC Until now, survives to a height of 5 meters.

LD the plain of Almopia, built at the foot of Mount Vora is the Orma.

There are two versions about the origin of its name. One says that the sea reached a very old there, which was bay. The other, by rushing streams stemming from Mount Vora.

The residents involved in agriculture and tourism. Also operating in the village of traditional houses and hotels for visitors to the Baths.

The plane of the square are aged over 100 years. Indeed, in the cavity of one of them, a refugee tsagarada operated.

It now has about 700 residents.

Loutraki is 13 km. from Aridea, 20km. the ski resort and 100km. remove you from Thessaloniki. It has 1280 inhabitants and in 1922 began to develop rural tourism. Today there are many guesthouses for visitors.

The residents of the Upper inhabited Loutraki, just miles from its current location.

Loutraki last 10 days of August are the Pozaritika involving music and dancing. Guests combining the thermal waters with a variety of activities such as walks in the green trails, gorge Baths, climbing, climbing, exploring caves in the area of ​​the Baths and visit the ski resort of Kaimaktsalan.

The City of Pozar is a city of Pella. Located in the northwestern part of the county and include specific relief, because there are big differences in height to reach the 1,500 meters. It occupies an area of ​​562,910 acres, becoming the first municipality in the area of ​​the county and has (real) population 20,213 inhabitants. Headquarters is the Aridaia, which has gotten its name. The inhabitants of the municipality Pozar participated in the revolution of 1821. A great fighter of the Revolution of 1821 was the Angel Gatsou by the Saracens and General Constantine Binos.

Edessa (formerly called parallel Vodena) is a city in central Macedonia in Greece, capital of the homonymous province and the prefecture of Pella. The population of the city of Edessa is 18,253, while that of the expanded municipality is 25,619 inhabitants (census 2001).

The city is a strong element of water (rivers and waterfalls), which is why the names: Edessa (wedes the Phrygian was the water tower or water) and Vodena (voda in Slavic is water) have the same root.

The city's name is Phrygian origin and means "tower / city, into the water."

Giannitsa is the largest city of the prefecture of Pella with 31,442 inhabitants (census 2001). Located on the historic Via Egnatia in the center of Macedonia, at an altitude of 40 meters, between the mountain and Paiko Giannitsa Plain, north of the drained lake Giannitsa.

Despite the close proximity to Thessaloniki (48 HM), the city has managed to develop its own independent and evolve as the most important economic, commercial and industrial center of the prefecture of Pella. The demographic composition of the city of Giannitsa is a human mosaic.

The 1924-1925 departed for Turkey Turks who were left with the Slav-speaking exarchikos withdrawn in Bulgaria. In the same period syntelesthike establishment in town and villages, the Greeks from Thrace and Eastern Rumelia by the Sea and the Caucasus. The population of the city and the region is now clearly Giannitsa Greek and the city is evolving spiritually and culturally, along with economic progress.

H Vegoritida lake is one of the largest and deepest lakes in the country, the limits of Pella, Florina and Kozani. It alpine lake type and tectonic origin. He is the recipient of a water catchment area of ​​approximately 1,800 square kilometers.

Probably came from prolimnaies karst subsidence during long geological subsidence of the past. Characteristics of the high degree of karstification, ie the creation of chemical erosion due to groundwater wells and the emergence of high infiltration rate of precipitation and underground storage.

In Vegoritida recorded 11 fish species: the Tsironis, the back, the carp, the Tourna, tench and other enhancements are made regularly of the lake with fish, as compared to the volume it can accommodate more species. Visitors can enjoy boating, fishing, sailing, canoeing or kayaking, swimming and hiking.

Starting with the Municipal District Promahi and after a journey through forest roads we reach the famous Forest Promahi the pentaveloni pine, a species unique in Europe, protected by the Ramsar convention. The Black Forest lies on the eastern slopes of the Vora and from the ski resort.