Pitsylia Sights

  1. AGROS

    Poised high on the mountains (1000m), Agros is a breezy, largish village, convenient for hiking or driving forays into the surrounding hills. While not a particularly beautiful place to spend your holidays, it is an alternative to the better-known village of Platres to the west. The less-frequented surrounding villages and Byzantine churches make it a good base for discovering the island away from the rest of the mountain visitors.

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  2. CNT

    Agros is known across the island for its cottage industries that make rose products, bottled fruit, and sausages. Local entrepreneur Chris Tsolakis runs an unusual yet thriving industry in the village: CNT is a rose-product and pottery business. Visit the workshop and learn what can be made out of roses: rose- and flower-water, rose brandy, skin cleansers, candles, rose liqueur and even a rose-infused Cabernet Sauvignon wine. Decorative ceramic bottles and other pottery items are also made in the workshop.

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  3. Kafkalia Sausage Factory

    At the Kafkalia Sausage Factory all products, including lountza , hiromeri (traditional smoked ham), loukanika (village sausages), pastourmas (spicy smoked beef) and bacon, are made on the premises. Ask to see the dark and hot smoke room next to the busy little shop.

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  4. Niki's Sweet Factory

    A wonderful Mediterranean way to put some sweetness into your life is preserving fruit, so that in winter when, for example, figs are but a distant dream, you can dip into a jar of fig preserve and beat the winter blues. Niki's Sweet Factory dedicates its entire business to this tasty therapy, and sells products like orange marmalade, fig preserve and diabetic walnut sweets. Ask about the healing properties of some of the preserves.

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  5. Stavros Tou Agiasmati

    This Unesco-listed Byzantine church is famous for the frescoes, painted by Filippos Goul in 1494, that decorate its gable roof. Access to the church requires some forethought; you must obtain the key from the priest at Platanistasa village 5km away and, of course, return it.

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