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The second most sublime place in the world: The Zagori, Greece

The second most sublime place in the world: The Zagori, Greece

A hidden mountain idyll is my choice for the most sublime place you can actually visit*.

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Oct 30, 2020
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There is a reference in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s book Mani to ‘the Kondaritiki-speaking lathmakers of the Zagorichoria’.

You can Google that phrase, but you won’t get very far. Leigh Fermor was a travel writer, but he might as well have been writing science fiction.

One day, I received an invitation to visit the Zagori – otherwise known as the Zagorichori…

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