Olympos: in this village of Karpathos time has stopped (Video)

There is no such settlement in Greece.

They say those who were fortunate enough to find themselves in the village that time has not yet managed to touch.

The houses are "embroidered" on the mountain, colorful, all with their own oven, with their own windmill. Churches, small streets, hospitable people, traditional costumes, customs that are kept unchanged over time.The village wakes up in the morning and the women are baking. Bread and food.

At noon the first tourists make their appearance, enchanted by the beauty and play of the sun with the shadow. Many are the women wearing the kavai, the traditional costume, and they talk to the locals - with many Doric elements - as they are waiting for the buses.The village of Olympos was built during the period of Iconoclasm, somewhere between the 7th and 9th centuries by the inhabitants of ancient Vrukounta and Nisyros, in order to protect them from the raids of the Arabs.

This is confirmed by the frescoes of the churches in the village, from where the forms of the saints that the Icicomacans prohibited.The area is isolated, inaccessible, unobstructed from the north and southwest, but open to the west, so that they can control the arrival of the pirate ships and lock themselves in their castle, the ruins of which survive to this day, of the Mesa Castro and Oxo Kamara districts.The name of the village owes it to the high mountain, on the side of which it is built. Today the mountain is called Sun Elias, because on its top, as on the tops of other hills in Greece, was built a temple of Prophet Elias. In the ancient times, however, the mountain, as well as many other mountains of the Greek area, was called Olympos.

Olympos was an agricultural village, like the other villages of Karpathos. The fear of piracy forced the residents to leave the beach and the sea, to resort to the landlocked and to occupy the land.Olympos is unique, but enchants visitors at religious feasts. Easter, on the fifteenth of August, are celebrated with special grace and emotion in the village.

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