Εμφανίζονται 12 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Πληροφορίες για τον τόπο στην ευρύτερη περιοχή: "ΑΚΡΑΤΑ Δήμος ΑΙΓΙΑΛΕΙΑ" .
ΑΚΡΑΤΑ (Κωμόπολη) ΑΧΑΪΑ
Η όμορφη παραλιακή πόλη της Ακράτας με τα καταγάλανα νερά, τις θαυμάσιες
ακρογιαλιές και την σύγχρονη τουριστική υποδομή της προσφέρει πολλές συγκινήσεις
σε όσους επιθυμούν να συνδυάσουν ξεκούραση και περιπέτεια στις διακοπές τους.
Η Ακράτα καθώς και οι γραφικές παραλίες των γύρω χωριών Τράπεζα,
Πλάτανος, Αιγείρα
προσελκύουν κατά τους καλοκαιρινούς μήνες πλήθος παραθεριστών που απολαμβάνουν
τις ιδιαίτερες ομορφιές της περιοχής.
Νοτιοανατολικά της Ακράτας βρίσκονται τα ερείπια της Αρχαίας
Αιγείρας με το φημισμένο αρχαίο θέατρο καθώς επίσης και τα ίχνη της αρχαίας
πόλης Αιγές που καταστράφηκε γύρω στο 281 π.Χ.
Στα περίχωρα της Ακράτας είναι κτισμένη η μεταβυζαντινή Ιερά
Μονή της Αγίας Τριάδας, τόπος φιλόξενος και γοητευτικός, ενώ 20 χιλιόμετρα
από την πόλη ο επισκέπτης συναντά τη Σελιάνα,
όπου έχουν εντοπισθεί τα ίχνη της αρχαίας
Φελλόης, την οποία αναφέρει στα Αχαϊκά ο Παυσανίας. Στο Περιθώρι,
4 χιλιόμετρα νότια της Σελιάνας,
υπάγεται η μεταβυζαντινή Μονή
των Αγίων Αποστόλων και το κρατικό εκτροφείο θηραμάτων.
Κοντά στο Περιθώρι,
η Εξοχή (Ράχοβα) - όπου από
το 1829 μέχρι το 1837 λειτουργούσε "Ελληνική Σχολή" από τις πρώτες που
ιδρύθηκαν στην Ελλάδα μετά την
απελευθέρωση από τους Τούρκους - είναι ο τόπος που ανέδειξε πολλές ιστορικές φυσιογνωμίες
της επανάστασης του 1821 καθώς και επιφανείς κληρικούς όπως οι Πατριάρχες Ιεροσολύμων
Δοσίθεος και Χρύσανθος.
Οι ορεινές περιοχές νότια της Ακράτας παρουσιάζουν ιδιαίτερο τουριστικό
ενδιαφέρον. Εδώ θαυμάζει ο επισκέπτης την μαγευτική λίμνη του Τσιβλού
και τα ιστορικά αλλά και γραφικά Κλουκινοχώρια - Αγρίδι,
Μεσορούγγι, Περιστέρα,
Σόλος, Ζαρούχλα
κ.α. - χωριά με έντονα παραδοσιακά στοιχεία και σκορπισμένα μέσα σε πυκνό ελατοδάσος.
Στην Ζαρούχλα
βρίσκεται η βυζαντινή εκκλησία της Παναγίας ενώ στις πλαγιές του Χελμού
ο επισκέπτης συναντά την περίφημη βρύση της Γκόλφως από το ομώνυμο έργο του Περεσιάδη
και η εκκλησία του Αγίου Γεωργίου με ξυλόγλυπτο τέμπλο. Κοντά στο χωριό Σόλος
τοποθετείται η αρχαία Αρκαδική Νωνάκρις.
Ο Πύργος του Αργυριάδη στην Αγία
Βαρβάρα και το σπίτι του οπλαρχηγού Θεοχαρόπουλου αποτελούν δύο από τα σημαντικότερα
ιστορικά σημεία αναφοράς του συμπλέγματος των ορεινών χωριών που ονομάζονται Κλουκινοχώρια.
Από το χωριό Σόλος και μετά
από πεζοπορία τριών περίπου ωρών φθάνει κανείς στα μυθικά "αθάνατα νερά"
- τα Ύδατα της Στυγός - στα οποία κατά την μυθολογία ορκίζονταν οι θεοί του Ολύμπου.
Στα Ύδατα της Στυγός η Θέτις έλουσε τον γιό της Αχιλλέα για να γίνει άτρωτος.
Από την Στύγα ο επισκέπτης μπορεί περπατώντας να φθάσει στο Μέγα
Σπήλαιο διασχίζοντας τις θαυμάσιες και απόκρημνες βουνοπλαγιές του Χελμού.
Το κείμενο (απόσπασμα) παρατίθεται το Μάρτιο 2004 από τουριστικό φυλλάδιο
της Νομαρχίας Αχαϊας
(1999).
ΑΚΡΑΤΑ (Κωμόπολη) ΑΧΑΪΑ
A seaside village in a wonderful physical environment and with clear
seas. It is 71 klm away from Patra.
The city, which was named after the river Krathi,
is at the position of the ancient city of Eges.
The post-Byzantine convent of the Holy Trinity which was built in
1715. Its wall paintings are in a good condition. There are many important heirlooms,
portable icons, ecclesiastic books and a hand made Gospel of 1672. Many of the
cells have been built on ancient remains.
This text is cited December 2004 from the West Greece Region General Secretariat URL below, which contains image.
ΑΙΓΑΙ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΧΑΪΑ
Aipsai: Eth. Aigaios, Aigeates, Aigaieus. Or Aega (Aiga), a town of
Achaia, and one of the 12 Achaean cities, was situated upon the river Crathis
and upon the coast, between Aegeira and Bura. It is mentioned by Homer, and was
celebrated in the earliest times for its worship of Poseidon. It was afterwards
deserted by its inhabitants, who removed to the neighbouring town of Aegeira;
and it had already ceased to be one of the 12 Achaean cities on the renewal of
the League in B.C. 280, its place being occupied by Ceryneia. Its name does not
occur in Polybius. All traces of Aegae have disappeared, but it probably occupied
the site of the Khan of Akrata, which is situated upon a commanding height rising
from the left bank of the river. Neither Strabo nor Pausanias mention on which
bank of the Crathis it stood, but it probably stood on the left bank, since the
right is low and often inundated.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΣΤΥΞ (Καταρράκτης) ΑΙΓΙΑΛΕΙΑ
Styx (Stux), a waterfall descending from a lofty rock in the Aroanian
mountains, above Nonacris, a town in the NE. of Arcadia, in the district of Pheneus.
The water descends perpendicularly in two slender cascades, which, after winding
among a labyrinth of rocks, unite to form a torrent that falls into the Crathis.
It is by far the highest waterfall in Greece; the scenery is one of wild desolation;
and it is almost impossible to climb over the rocks to the foot of the cascade.
The wildness of the scenery, the inaccessibility of the spot, and the singularity
of the waterfall made at an early period a deep impression upon the Greeks, and
invested the Styx with superstitious reverence. It is correctly described by both
Homer and Hesiod. The former poet speaks of the down-flowing water of the Styx
(to kateibomenon Stugos hudor, Il. xv. 37), and of the lofty torrents of the Styx
(Stugos hudatos aipa rheethra, Il. viii. 369). Hesiod describes it as a cold stream,
which descends from a precipitous lofty rock (hudor psuchron ho t ek petres kataleibetai
elibatoio hupseles, Theog. 785), and as the perennial most ancient water of the
Styx, which flows through a very rugged place (Stugos aphthiton hudor ogugion,
to d lesi katastuphelou dia chorou, Theog. 805). The account of Herodotus, who
does not appear to have visited the Styx, is not so accurate. He says that the
Styx is a fountain in the town Nonacris; that only a little water is apparent;
and that it dropt from the rock into a cavity surrounded by a wall (vi. 74). In
the same passage Herodotus relates that Cleomenes endeavoured to persuade the
chief men of Arcadia to swear by the waters of the Styx to support him in his
enterprise. Among the later descriptions of this celebrated stream that of Pausanias
(viii. 17. § 6) is the most full and exact. Not far from the ruins of Nonacris,
he says, is a lofty precipice higher than I ever remember to have seen, over which
descends water, which the Greeks call the Styx. He adds that when Homer represents
Hera swearing by the Styx, it is just as if the poet had the water of the stream
dropping before his eyes. The Styx was transferred by the Greek and Roman poets
to the invisible world [see Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Biogr. and Myth. art. Styx];
but the waterfall of Nonacris continued to be regarded with superstitious terrors;
its water was supposed to be poisonous; and it was believed that it destroyed
all kinds of vessels, in which it was put, with the exception of those made of
the hoof of a horse or an ass. There was a report that Alexander the Great had
been poisoned by the water of the Styx. (Arrian, Anab. vii. 27; Plut. Alex. 77,
de Prim. Frig. 20. p. 954; Paus. viii. 18. § 4; Strab. viii. p. 389; Aelian, H.
An. x. 40; Antig. Hist. Mirab. 158 or 174; Stob. Ecl. Phys. i. 52. § 48; Plin.
ii. 103. s. 106, xxx. 16. s. 53, xxxi. 2. s. 19; Vitruv. viii. 3; Senec. Q. N.
iii. 25.) The belief in the deleterious nature of the water continues down to
the present day, and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages relate that no
vessel will hold the water. It is now called ta Mauraneria, or the Black Waters,
and sometimes ta Drako-neria or the Terrible Waters. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii.
p. 160, seq.; Fiedler, Reise durch Griechenland, vol. i. p. 400, who gives a drawing
of the Styx; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. i. p. 195.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΑΙΓΑΙ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΧΑΪΑ
A town in Achaea, with a celebrated temple of Poseidon, originally one of the twelve Achaean towns; but its inhabitants subsequently removed to Aegira.
ΝΩΝΑΚΡΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΓΙΑΛΕΙΑ
A town in the north of Arcadia, surrounded by lofty mountains, in which the river Styx took its origin. From this town Evander is called Nonacrius, Atalanta Nonacria, Callisto Nonacrina virgo, and Hermes Nonacriates, in the general sense of Arcadian.
ΣΤΥΞ (Καταρράκτης) ΑΙΓΙΑΛΕΙΑ
Styx (Stux). A name connected with the verb stugeo, to hate
or abhor, and applied to the principal river in the nether world, around which
it flows seven times. Styx is described as a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. As
a nymph she dwelt at the entrance of Hades, in a lofty grotto which was supported
by silver columns. As a river, Styx is described as a branch of Oceanus, flowing
from its tenth source; and the river Cocytus again is a branch of the Styx. By
Pallas, Styx became the mother of Zelus, Nike, Bia, and Cratos. She was the first
of all the immortals who took her children to Zeus, to assist him against the
Titans; and, in return for this, her children were allowed forever to live with
Zeus, and Styx herself became the divinity by whom the most solemn oaths were
sworn. When one of the gods had to take an oath by Styx, Iris brought a cup full
of water from the Styx, and the god, while taking the oath, poured out the water.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΝΩΝΑΚΡΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΓΙΑΛΕΙΑ
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