ABOUT BAROS

Another route, 12 km from Matsouki, leads to the crossing of Baros, known as the “Baros pass”. The road to the left leads to Kalarrytes and to right through a stunning beauty path between canyons, steep slopes and dense forests it reaches Anthousa and the villages of Aspropotamos in Thessaly. Baro’s neck is one of the three accessible mountain passes from Thessaly to Epirus . At the point where the mountains of Kakarditsa and Peristeri meet at an altitude of 1905m. is one of the most difficult passages of Pindos known for the snowstorms that suddenly break out even in the spring. Here were until 1912 the Greek-Turkish borders. The mountain crossing of Baros was known for many centuries before in the caravans of the transports carrying people and merchandise, as well as in the Pindos tseligades, which were raising their flocks every summer from the Thessaly winters high up in the alpine meadows of Pindos for free grazing. Moreover, it was a strategic point and its occupation was necessary for the movement of the army from Epirus to Thessaly and vice versa. At that time the villages of the area sank from life! Later, the Civil War and the new living conditions led to the desertion of the area and the mountainous passage of Baros to become obsolete and forgotten.

Since many years now there have been drilling and asphalting works on the road and in 2013 the last piece of asphalt was delivered.

This area of Central Pindos, considered one of the most beautiful in the country, is unfortunately threatened by the ever-increasing human interventions that shatter and alter the alpine highlands and brutally disturb the ecosystem.