Private transfer from Athens airport to Metsovo or vice versa.
Metsovo is one of the most well-known big traditional villages, located at an elevation of 1.160 m.It is situated in a wonderful part of the Pindos mountains and its locals have a long tradition in the production of top quality wood-carved items and embroideries. Today it is considered as one of the most popular ski-resorts around Greece. Metsovo is 1 hr away from Meteora.The city of Metsovo is reported for first time in 1380 after Christ in the chronicle of brothers Proklos and Komninos. Initially it was a small settlement of shepherds. Later, because of its important geographic place, it enjoyed particular preferential treatment that contributed in its survival and accelerated the rhythms of multifarious growth in difficult times. It is reported that in 1430 after Christ privileges were granted in the people of Metsovo by the Sultan Mourat the second, as a reward of the good behaviour.Renewal of this privileges happened in 1659 from the Sultan Mehmet the fourth. With base these privileges, the city of Metsovo and the surrounding villages Malakasi, Milia, Anilio, Votonosi, Old Koutsoufliani (Platanistos) and Derventista (Anthochorj) they constituted a kind of federation, an autonomous democratic state in the Ottoman Empire. The privileges of the city of Metsovo were suppressed in 1795 from the centralized state of Ali Pasha. Exception constituted the Exarhia, which was maintained up to 1924. In 1700 after Christ a self supported Greek school was founded in Metsovo, that was elected one of the more important centres of education, where the most important teachers of the era taught.
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