Ετικέτα: Slow Travel

What Does Pieria Taste Like? A Morning at the Gastronomic Festival of the Mountain & the Forest in Elatochori A personal journey through food, forest, people and the flavours of Pieria. What does Pieria taste like? Maybe it tastes like warm bread, local cheese, mushrooms, chestnuts and honey. Maybe like Greek coffee sweetened with flower […]

Mushroom & Truffle Festival Olympus | Skotina, Lake Kati & Mount Olympus Forest Experience A two-day celebration of wild mushrooms, forest knowledge, local gastronomy and village life beneath Mount Olympus. Some festivals are remembered for their music. Others for their food. The 1st Mushroom & Truffle Festival Olympus, held on May 16–17, 2026 in Skotina, […]

Dion Archaeological Park, Greece | Ancient Dion at the Foot of Mount Olympus A March Morning, a Quiet Archaeological Site & an Unexpected Stray Muse March 1, 2026 — Dion, Pieria Early March light at the Archaeological Park of Dion. © ExperiencePieria.info What Is the Archaeological Park of Dion? The Archaeological Park of Dion is […]

Fire, Cedar & Memory The Tsagkala Carnival ritual in Skotina, Pieria — where fire, community and older layers of memory meet. 22 February 2026 · Skotina, Pieria The cedar fire of Tsagkala in Skotina, Pieria. © Experience Pieria In the village of Skotina, beneath the slopes of Mount Olympus, fire still has the power to […]

Some places ask you to slow down. Agia Kori is one of them. Near Vrontou, on the slopes of Mount Olympus, a short winter walk leads through forest and water to a small waterfall — a place where, on one January morning, a simple walk became something much more personal. Agia Kori Waterfall, Olympus | […]

Forest Bathing in Olympus, Greece | Shinrin-Yoku, Forest Therapy & Slow Nature What happens when you stop trying to conquer the mountain and simply spend time inside the forest? Litochoro, Pieria — beneath Mount Olympus Enipeas Gorge, Mount Olympus — water, forest and November mist beneath the mountain. There are many ways to experience Mount […]

Exclusive Wine Experience in the Hidden Forests of Olympus & Pieria Where nature, faith, and taste meet beyond the known. October 26th, 2025 — Ano Milia, Pieria / by Giorgos Gizelis The Love Trail (Monopáti tis Agápis), Ano Milia — an easy forest path layered with fallen leaves and wild chestnuts. October warmth, light like […]

October in Paralia Katerinis | A Walk by the Sea, Coffee & Local Life October 4, 2025 — Paralia Katerinis, Pieria There are still days in October when the coast of Pieria seems reluctant to let summer go. The light becomes softer, the beach begins to breathe at a different pace, and the sea keeps […]

Kiwifruit of Olympus | Harvest, Farmers & Local Life in Agios Spyridon October 1, 2025 — Agios Spyridon, Pieria, Greece Kiwifruit harvest in Agios Spyridon, Pieria, beneath the foothills of Mount Olympus. In Agios Spyridon, Pieria, the landscape around Mount Olympus is not only forest, mountain and villages. It is also farmland. In autumn, the […]