ATAKTA ADAMANTIOS KORAIS 1832 VOLUME 4 PART 2
Another bright page of the church of Agia Paraskevi Metsovo is its chanting tradition. Byzantine music in the church was brought by the Gianniotian lead singer Dionysios, who taught it at the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This tradition is praised by the Upper Sudanese Zagori Teacher of the Genus Neophytos Doukas, a student of the Hellenic School [...]
The art of beekeeping dates back several decades in Metsovo and has several workshops with commercial activity outside the local market.. These workshops have been operating for decades with the art being inherited from father to son and modernized with the use of new technologies and machines in the production process The quality of the [...]
The whole construction process was done by hand, without machines, using oak, chestnut and robolo wood. Much later, in the 1970s, coal-fired factories were equipped with machinery. Wooden barrels occupied the first place in the storage of products and because their construction required some technique, some specialized and practiced this art as a profession. They [...]
In Metsovo, the art of wood carving began a long time ago. "The great prosperity and flourishing of Metsovite folk art began after 1659, with the exceptional political and ecclesiastical privileges, which the Metsovite archbishop Kyrgos Flokas obtained from the Gate and made Metsovo an autonomous democracy. At that time, wood carving escaped from handicrafts [...]
Livestock has always been the mainstay of Metsovo's economy. Cheese-making is another pole of development. The cheese factory of the Tositsa Foundation has been operating in Metsovo since 1958, absorbing almost the entire milk production of the region. The cheese industry experienced a huge growth throughout the Turkish yoke and the Metsovite cheese merchants used [...]