Rising over 1000 metres high and popular year-round among adventure sports and nature lovers, Evrytania is lush, scenic and varied, with bubbling streams and snow-clad forests; an ideal destination for hiking, climbing, rafting, trekking and much more.
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Velouchi Ski Resort
Soaring above the capital of Karpenisi is Mount Tymfristos (also called Velouchi), with its popular ski centre. Here you’ll find delicious rustic cuisine here, as well as a wide choice of comfy B&Bs where you can cozy up by the fireplace and watch the snowfall. Although, being a mountainous region, much of the cuisine is meat-centred, Evrytania is widely known especially for its delicious river trout.
Best Places to Eat
-To Spiti Tou Psara (on the provincial road that goes from Karpenissi to Prossou) for delicious grilled or butter-fried trout. Trout is also great at Fresko, where you can also buy it to take away.
-River Art Cafe-Restaurant is a most unusual as well as flavoursome stop for anything from breakfast to full-fledged local feast in a quirkily artsy ambiance.
-For trout as well as local game head to ultra-rustic and cozy Hagiati for homemade stews, pies and hilopites pasta.
Don’t leave Evrytania without trying: Local prosciutto ham (made by Allandika Stremmenou) and cheeses made by Koutroumanou such as creamy, zingy katiki cheese, mild myzythra, graviera and the local star cheese, tsalafouti.
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