It is characterized as a place with fairies since it has excess of beauty and has been linked with many stories from mythology. At the top of Mount Parnassos stranded after the flood the ark of Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, from whom came the ancestor of the Ellines (Greeks), Ellinas. On the southwestern side lies the famous oracle...
- Viotia Prefecture / Nature / Mountains
Mount Elikonas rises between Thebes and Livadia. It is 35 kilometers long and 15-20 kilometers wide. The mountain volume is divided into three smaller parts, the Helicon altar of Zeus, the source of Ippokrini and the famous grove of the Muses with the highest peak of Zagora (1,527 meters). Paliovouna is the highest peak of central Elikonas...