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Ypati



Prefecture of Fthiotidas

A mountainous large village, built on the mountainsides of Oeti among the oak-trees, plane-trees and cypress-trees. It has got a panoramic view of the plain of Lamia down to the coast of Santa Marina.

It is 21 km to the west of Lamia. The population is 849. Ypati was founded in 410 B.C. It would have assemblies of the city, special currency and two representatives would be sent to the Amphyctionian Convention. During the Aetolian War (1st cent. B.C.), the Aetolian Confederacy assembled in Ypati to discuss about what the Romans put forward. In Byzantine Times, Ypati was called Neae Patrae and became the capital of the Epirus domain. The town was successively dominated by the Franks, Katalans, Serbians and Turks (in 1393). The Turks called it Patratzi (Small Patra) in order to be distinquished by Patrasin Achaia.

The sights are:

  • Remnants of a mediaeval castle
  • The mosaics that cover the St Nicholas churchyard.
  • The famous monastery of St Agathonas on the mountainside of Oeti, which was founded in the 15th cent. The founder was the monk Agathon. The main church is cruciform with dome. There are also two chapels which have got significant murals of the 16th cent. The monastery was destroyed during the War of Independence of 1821 and the German occupation. The vestry includes: portable icons, vestments, ecclesiastical vessels, woodcut crosses, shrines of the Postbyzantine Era, ecclesiastical books of the 18th-19th century etc. There is also a zoo and a hostel.

Loutra Ypatis

The village has been developed due to the hot water springs. It is 18,5 km to the west of Lamia and 8 km away from the town of Ypati. It has got 1140 inhabitants. The hot water springs from a plain near the river of Sperhios. The water in the crater boils very vividly due to the bubbles of the carbon dioxide and hydrosulphur. This water has got a salted taste and smells like a bad egg. This water is able to cure skin diseases, eczemas, herpes, diseases of the respiratory and digestive systems, heart complaints and hypertension.
 

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