Welcome to Naturally Zagori

Welcome to Naturally Zagori in Epirus, Greece

… a website about the unique area of the Zagori area and the National Parks of Vikos-Aoos & Valia Calda. Here you will find information about the nature, architecture, local customs, happenings, sports activities, culinary events and much more. Stay tuned for more, the…

Traditional Easter

Traditional Orthodox Easter in Northern Greece

No matter what your religious background, observing the Orthodox Easter in the Zagori villages is a colourful experience that touches all your senses. An experience that will stay with you for ever. For the Greeks Easter is the most important of all religious holidays…

Mushrooms and religion

Fresh Amanita Caesarea in a forest in the Zagori area in Ioannina

ROBERT GRAVES: MUSHROOMS AND RELIGION The profound importance of mushrooms in primitive religion had remained undetected until some twenty years ago, when Mr. R. Gordon Wasson, an American banker, and his Russian-born wife Valentina first called attention to it. The new science of ethnomycology,…