{"id":3815,"date":"2013-03-24T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistswindow.com\/new\/?p=3815"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T16:36:40","slug":"aghia-sotira-walk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/aghia-sotira-walk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aghia Sotira Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

What fabulous weather we had for Saturday’s walk from Aghia Sotira…<\/p>\n

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Our first stop was at Pera, where we explored the deserted village, had a chat to a visiting local and took some photos….<\/p>\n

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This is possibly ‘my favourite walk of them all’….<\/p>\n

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The spring flowers are at their peak at the moment….<\/p>\n

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and the fig trees are budding….<\/p>\n

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Continuing uphill, we paused at the church of Aghia Pareskevi to admire the view….<\/p>\n

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then climbed up to the ruined Frankish castle – Leone, which was our flower-filled, super-scenic, lunch-stop…<\/p>\n

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A panoramic view indeed….<\/p>\n

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There’s still some snow on the Tayettos…..<\/p>\n

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At the brow of the hill – armies of fig trees…. <\/p>\n

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It’s about an hour’s walk from the castle, up…then down to Kastania….<\/p>\n

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We were greeted by Kiria Sofia Zerva, who kindly opened the museum for us and gave a demonstration of weaving and a bit of info on silk production…..<\/p>\n

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Continuing downhill, we passed through the ruined stone village of Polistari, where the church restoration had progressed quite a bit since my last visit….<\/p>\n

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A beautiful walk of around 10.5 kilometres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What fabulous weather we had for Saturday’s walk from Aghia Sotira… Our first stop was at Pera, where we explored the deserted village, had a chat to a visiting local and took some photos…. This is possibly ‘my favourite walk of them all’…. The spring flowers are at their peak at the moment…. and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}