Zagori
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How it came to be
Zagori is a group of about 46 villages on the western slopes of the Pindus mountains in Epirus, northwest Greece. Arched stone bridges, cobbled paths and stone stairways tied the villages together, and they worked as a single community.
When Zagori fell to the Ottomans with Ioannina in 1430, a treaty of 1431 granted it self-government. From the 17th century the villages lived on money sent home and left in wills by emigrants, merchants who traded in Romania, Ukraine, Russia and beyond. Their wealth built houses, schools and bridges, and prosperity peaked in the 18th century.
Each village centres on a square with a plane tree and a church, and some are still ringed by sacred forests. A presidential decree of 1979 protected the villages' buildings, and Zagori was inscribed in 2023.
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