Vale of Tempe
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The Vale of Tempe or Tembi is a gorge in the Tempi municipality of northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south, and between the regions of Thessaly and Macedo
View of the Pineios River gorge.
The vale
View of The Paradise of Tempe by Abraham Oretellius, 1590
Pineios (Thessaly)
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The Pineios is a river in Thessaly, Greece. The river is named after the god Peneus. During the late Middle Ages, it was also known as the Salamvrias or Salavrias.
Vale of Tempe
…municipality of Tempi, the valley is ten kilometers long and as narrow as 25 metres in places, with cliffs nearly 500 metres high. Through it flows the Pineios River on its way to the Aegean Sea. Historically the gorge has provided a strategic route through the mountains and its impressive rugged beauty is poetically…
Pineios flowing through Larissa
Pineios, autumn