Pitsiota

Place of Pitsiota in the Phthiotis (it can be detected in the pin of the blue arrow).

Pitsiota is a village in the municipal unit of Agios Georgios Tymfristou, Phthiotis, Greece, northwest of Lamia. It is in the northwestern part of Phthiotis and very close to the borders of Evrytania and Karditsa regional units. Pitsiota's altitude is 780 m (2,560 ft). Nearby villages are Palaiokastro, Dikastro and Perivlepto.

Panoramic view of the village. In the background you can see the peak Bakakas of the cordillera Lykomnimata (=Wolftombs)

Climate

The average annual temperature in Pitsiota, fluctuates between 9.2 and 15.0 °C (48.6 and 59.0 °F). In Pitsiota there have also been observed very low minimum temperatures which can reach down to −14 °C (7 °F). January is the coldest month and July is the warmest. Autumn is warmer than Spring as well as in all Greek area. After the third week of May, the invasion of the warm season is intense.

History

Without some specific historical reports, the age of the village has been calculated and found to exceed 500 years, since it had already been constituted before the Turkish slavery (1453). Its early inhabitants went there, from Evrytania, Agrinio, Trikala, from the villages of Fthiotida, or from Agrafa mountains (soldiers during the Turkish slavery, who served the Greek post, which had been later recast to the chapel of Saint Paraskevi). The maximum number of inhabitants that has been recorded is about 430 in the late 19th century.

In modern age, an abandonment of the village appeared, as the latest census show, however during summer seasons, it gets again some life, and can be an exceptional escape from the ciy routine. This happens because it is built in the Southern banks of the beautiful and verdant mountain "Lykomnimata", which is placed near the Tymphristos mountain complex. A few kilometers away from Pitsiota, one of the World Rally Championship's-Rally Acropolis- tracks passes through.

Demographic Data

Population according to the census