Kastoria, Greece Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Set on a hilly, wooded peninsula extending deep into a slate-coloured lake, KASTORIÁ is one of the most interesting and attractive towns of mainland Greece. It's also wealthy by Greek standards and has been so for centuries as the centre of southeast Europe's fur trade; although the local beavers ( kastóri in Greek) of the name had been trapped to extinction by the nineteenth century, Kastoriá still supports a considerable industry of furriers who make up coats, gloves and other items from fur scraps imported from Canada and Scandinavia and, increasingly, from the pelts of locally … more »