At the foot of Kirfis mountain and at an altitude of 600m. is lying
amphitheatrically the small picturesque town of Desphina. Having a population
of about 2,500 inhabitants, nowadays Desphina is an independent Municipality,
near the site of the ancient city of Echedameia (there still are ruins-curved
graves, etc.), which was destryed by Phillip II of Macedonia (355-346 BC), native
town of the 1821 hero Isaiah bishop of Salona Isaiah and of the painter Spiros
Papaloukas.
Noteworthy monuments of Desphina and of the region are: the historic
monastery of Ag. Ioannis Prodromos related to the 1821 Liberation struggle, the
chapel of Taxiarches (in the yard of the Agios Charalambos church) which is a
Basilica built during the 12th century with notable but partly damaged wall paintings.
At the site Syro-Kastro there are still ruins of the ancient town of
Medeon,
ruined together with
Echedameia
by Phillip II (Third Sacred War).
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the WebPage
of the Prefecture of
Fokida
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