Lake Orestiada
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Lake Orestiada or Lake of Kastoria is a lake in the Kastoria regional unit of Macedonia, northwestern Greece. It spreads out in a natural basin, surrounded by mountains and is the remnant of a huge an
Lake of Kastoria
Road close to the lake
View to the town
Dalmatian pelican at lake Orestiada
Dispilio
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Dispilio is a village near Lake Orestiada, in the Kastoria regional unit of Western Macedonia, Greece. Near the village is an archaeological site containing remains of a Neolithic lakeshore settlement
Lake Orestiada
…Byzantine architectural heritage of the town, an 11th-century Byzantine monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa and the reconstructed prehistoric settlement of Dispilio, where the Dispilio Tablet was retrieved from the lake in 1992. The lake is known to freeze in winters, for 2 to 5 weeks. Orestiada is surrounded by…
Modern reconstruction of the hypothetical Neolithic settlement of Dispilio, on lake Orestiada