Discover Hidden Pelion

The villas of Tsagarada ‘’stole’’ their colours from nature

This harmony of man and landscape, this concordance between them, is the powerful attraction of the villas in Pelion and what constitutes its charming profile, the main condition for the maintenance of its exceptional natural beauty. Pelion is a mountain in human proportions. I often think that this balance results from another factor equally important. The Pelion landscape combines in an unusual wise way, both male and female elements. The Aegean coasts, either clear-cut and rocky or sandy, sometimes rough and dangerous and sometimes calm, but always so exciting, are perfectly complemented by the wet, green steep slopes with the luxuriant vegetation which end up to these coasts. On the other hand, the side of Pagasitikos gulf, a big hug with many smaller and safer ones, with tender curvilinear slopes around them and olive trees almost entering the sea. And the top of the mountain is naked, without any sharp edges either. The beauty of Pelion villa is not frightening, nor oppressing, it does not put your limits to the test. It makes you feel comfortably into your human flesh. You experience a spiritual euphoria for just being a human and having been able to visit such a blessed place in Greece. The beauty of the mountain is gradually and mildly revealing, it welcomes you with gentleness and familiarity and it usually makes you a part of it, offering you an unsurpassed feeling of participation in Creation and, more than this, in something that cannot be expressed in words.

But every glance is unique, every slope, every villa in pelion. Every look lends other dimensions to the visible and through this, it penetrates and explains other aspects of the invisible. That is also the case, and much more than that, for the keen eye of the photographer. An eye which is limited by the range of the camera’s lens and every time necessarily focuses to a whole or to a detail, having at the same time endless possibilities to select a point of view and a subject. The reality remains the same. But its image and its distinctive meaning are up to each one of us. It is an adventure for the eye and the soul