Places of the Family

Known as Ano Machalas until 1916, Ano Volos developed as a group of hillside quarters above the port. Its nineteenth-century households participated in silk weaving, olive oil and wine production, milling, and regional trade.

Anakasia adjoins Ano Volos on the lower slopes of Pelion and forms part of the historic Iolkos landscape. Like its neighboring settlements, it flourished through milling, crafts, agriculture, and regional trade during the nineteenth century.

Makrinitsa grew around the medieval monastery of Panagia Makrinitissa, founded in the early thirteenth century by the Malliasenos family. Under Ottoman rule it developed into one of Pelion’s largest and most prosperous settlements, particularly during the eighteenth century.

Portaria rises immediately above Volos on Pelion’s western slope. Stone houses, archontika, fountains, churches, and shaded cobbled lanes record the prosperity of a village tied closely to the port below.

Tsagarada is spread among several church-centered quarters in the deep forests of eastern Pelion. Its cobbled paths descend through chestnut and plane woods toward the Aegean coast.

Zagora, one of Pelion’s largest historic villages, grew through cultivation, textile work, education, shipping, and trade. Its orchards descend toward Chorefto, the maritime outlet used by Zagorian ships.

Milies became a center of Pelion learning, commerce, and book culture. Its historic library and school reflect the intellectual life created by teachers and merchants of the mountain villages.

Vizitsa is a protected traditional settlement of western Pelion, built above the Pagasetic Gulf. Its stone lanes and concentrated group of archontika preserve the form of prosperous mountain domestic life.

Recorded administratively as Soupli by 1833, the settlement was officially renamed Agia Trias on 4 November 1927. Today it belongs to the Skotoussa community in the municipality of Farsala.

Modern Volos grew rapidly after Thessaly joined the Greek state in 1881, becoming the principal port and industrial center of central Greece. Its streets joined the Pelion villages and Thessalian plain to maritime trade and migration.

Farsala stands in the fertile southern Thessalian plain on a site occupied from prehistoric antiquity. Ancient Pharsalos, its acropolis, and the surrounding countryside preserve evidence of the region's long strategic and agricultural importance.

Skotoussa is a rural community in the municipality of Farsala, set among the fields and low foothills of southern Larissa. Nearby ancient Skotoussa was a fortified Thessalian city whose economy drew upon the surrounding grain country.

Longueuil began with a seigneurial grant to Charles Le Moyne in 1657. Its historic center grew opposite Montréal, becoming a town in 1874 and a city in 1920.