Greek Map

Zalogo

Historical mountainous village. The monument of the sculptor Zogolopoulos, which represents the "dance of Zalogos", is situated on the rock from where the women of Souli fell down with their children, chased by the men of the Turk Ali Pasha, who set aside his promise and persecuted the people of Souli in December of 1803, when Souli was captured because of some traitor. Then, the people of Souli separated themselves in three groups. One of these groups composed by 800 Soulians, with Koutsonikas as leader, was going towards Parga who was captured by the Russians, and it stopped at Zalogos for rest. The Soulians, in order to avoid the Albanian fighters of Ali Pasha who were chasing them, were fortified in the monastery on the top, where they resisted for two days. On December the 18th, a group, with leader Kitsos Botsaris, managed to broke a part of the men of Ali and so 147 Greeks arrived in Parga. The rest who stayed in the monastery were captured, while 57 women ran away. When they arrived on a rock, at the top named Stefani, in order not to be captured by the Albanians, they threw their children in the precipice of Acherontas river and then they commited suicide falling themselves too. According to the tradition, they fell into the precipice dancing, one after the other. At the south slope of Zalogos, there are the ruins of the ancient city of Kassope. As it seems by the excavations, it was built before the middles of the 4th BC century. It was powerful Hellenistic center, which was ruined, with the other cities of Epirus, by the Roman conquerors.

Worth seeing places:

• The nunnery of Agios Demetrios, 3km from the village.
• The Rock from where the women of Souli fell down into the precipice, 15km from the monastery.

• The ruins of the ancient city of Kassope, 2km north-west of Kamarina. Kassope was inhabited since the Paleolithic period. In BC 700, the Ileians settlers had founded on the coastal areas several cities and at the beginning of the 4th BC century they founded Kassope. The city was ruined in the years of the Romans domination and it was deserted after the foundation of Nikopolis because the population was compelled to inhabit the new city. At the city`s area there are ancient remains mainly of the Hellenistic Years.

<

Best experienced with

Best viewed in 1024x768