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Municipality of Niata is semi-mountainous and dry, with
the exception of Apidia, which commands underground water
resources and cultivates citrus fruit, garden products,
olives and tobacco. Around Aghios Dimitrios and Niata
un-watered olives are grown. Animal rearing, almost on
ecological lines is a significant factor.The honey produced
in the area is of excellent quality as there is abundant
thyme here.
There
are taverns that also serve traditional dishes, such
as home-made pasta ("gogizes"), pies and other
local delicacies. The visitor may buy local pasta made
in a small industry of Niata, feta and myzithra cheese
and olive oil.
Aghios
Dimitrios was built after 1850 by the inhabitants of
the village of Giotsali. In 1944 it was burnt down by
the Germans and 21 of its inhabitants were executed,
mainly women, children and old men. Apidia is 6000 years
old. An ornament of the village is the church of the
Assumption of the Virgin with its unique arcitecture.
The marble icon screen, richly decorated, is also magnificent.
Kremasti at an altitude of 800m. has many springs and
next to the village starts a forestof fir trees. Niata
was built in the late Byzantine era. On the 18th September
1825, the army of Ibrahim captured many inhabitants,
among them 74 children and 7 women and slaughtered 30
men.
At
Niata the old wind-mills and dozens of stone wells around
the village, are really noteworthy.
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