Blanketing the Metsovo plateia with the enticing smell of grilled meat, this friendly place serves just as it has since it opened in 1962: your meal of spit-roasted lamb, chicken or kokoretsi (lamb offal) is served on a big sheet of waxed paper. French fries are hand-cut, naturally.
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Epiros
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The Tossizza family mansion conjures life in this mountain town: a cosy dream of fireplaces and gorgeous carpets, and the reality of being snowbound for…
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Founded by Evangelos Averoff to fulfil a long-held wish to crown his family's town with a quality gallery, this three-storey space exhibits works of Greek…
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3. Lake Pamvotis Information Center
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This monastery, active at least since the 13th century, bursts with flowers and is tended by kindly nuns – in stark contrast with its church, in which one…
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This museum presents early Christian and Byzantine art, pottery, coins and silverware, plus post-Byzantine icons and manuscripts, early Venetian-produced…
8. Municipal Ethnographic Museum
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Set inside the Aslan Pasha Mosque (1619), the museum exhibits local costumes and period photographs, along with tapestries and prayer shawls from Ioannina…