Pelion Paths
The walking trails
of Pelion
Pelion is laced with kalderimia, the centuries-old cobbled paths that link the mountain villages to the sea. Here is a growing, fact-checked guide to the best of them across the whole peninsula, with a Google Earth link for every trail. The ones nearest us begin within a short walk of the hotel.
Start from our village
On foot from the door
Pinakates → Vizitsa
A short, easy kalderimi between two of the prettiest western Pelion villages, the old daily school route, walked until 1985.
Around Vizitsa (circular)
A half-day loop straight from the village, past a monastery, the historic Milies railway bridge and a spring waterfall.
Milies Station ↔ Vizitsa (circular)
A loop linking Vizitsa with the historic 1903 Milies railway station, two 18th-century chapels and the Miliotiko ravine.
Kala Nera → Pinakates → Vizitsa → Milies
The grand tour of the western villages, from the sea at Kala Nera up through three mountain villages on old kalderimia, with a train or bus back.
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Western villages & the gulf
Drakia → Agios Lavrentios
An easy, shaded forest walk through chestnut groves between two western Pelion villages.
Agios Georgios Nileias → Kato Gatzea
A scenic kalderimi descent from a hillside village down to the Pagasetic shore, passing an old railway station and olive museum.
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South Pelion, Argalasti to Trikeri
Lafkos → Milina
An easy, family-friendly kalderimi down through olive groves from the handsome village of Lafkos to the gulf at Milina.
Promyri → Platanias
A shaded mule-track descent through plane-tree forest from Promyri down to the southern beach of Platanias.
Tisaios ridge crossing (Floka & Evzonos peaks)
A demanding circular ridge walk at the far south of Pelion, balanced between the Pagasetic Gulf and the open Aegean.
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Portaria, Makrinitsa & the high mountain
The Centaurs' Path (Portaria)
Pelion's most famous short walk, an easy, shaded kalderimi along a stream and over little wooden bridges, where myth placed the centaurs.
Hania → Agriolefkes & Schidzouravli peaks (circular)
A high-mountain loop from the ski centre over two of Pelion's summits, with a 360° panorama from Olympus to Athos.
Makrinitsa → Pliasidi → Zagora
A demanding full-day ridge traverse over the high shoulder of Pliasidi, with views from Mount Olympus to the Aegean.
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East Coast, Tsagarada & the beaches
Tsagarada → Damouchari → Papa Nero
The classic descent from the plane-tree village of Tsagarada down old kalderimia to the harbour of Damouchari and the golden sand of Papa Nero.
Tsagarada → Fakistra → Damouchari
A wilder coastal descent past a cave-chapel and a medieval ruin to the cliff-ringed beach of Fakistra, then on to Damouchari.
Damouchari → Mouresi → Kissos → Agios Ioannis (circular)
A big, varied loop from the sea up through three classic east-Pelion villages and their plane-shaded squares, then back along the coast.
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North, Zagora, Pouri & Horefto
Zagora → Horefto
A historic kalderimi descent from the large village of Zagora down to its beach at Horefto, walkable as a loop on two old paths.
Pouri → Horefto
A coastal descent from the northern village of Pouri past quiet beaches to Horefto, with a clifftop sea-chapel along the way.