Ετικέτα: With the Locals

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, […]

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 | […]

Every January, something unusual rises above the streets of Litochoro. Tall masts carrying crosses and colourful banners appear as part of the town’s Epiphany celebrations — a distinctive local tradition known as the Sichna, or Sichnoforia. Under Mount Olympus, faith, community and local memory come together in a tradition that has been carried through generations […]

Chestnut Season in Skotina, Pieria | Harvest, Mountain Life & Local Stories A walk through the chestnut groves of Skotina, where autumn harvest, family memory, mountain paths and the Aegean landscape come together. Centuries-old chestnut trees on family land in Skotina, Pieria. Autumn in Skotina does not arrive all at once. You notice it in […]

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 […]

Iordanis Poimenidis | From Ancient Sites to Metal Art in Pieria With the Locals · Katerini & Pieria · September 2025 Some people collect old things. Some people repair them. And some look at a rusted agricultural tool, a forgotten machine or an old piece of metal and see something that does not exist yet. […]