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Woodcarving and weaving: crafts still alive

  • 3 min on foot
  • All year
  • an hour in the village, half a day with Milia
A stone shop in Metsovo with carved wooden plates, shepherd's crooks and cheeses on display.
Woodcarvings and cheeses in the shops on the square

Photo: Jean Housen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

HOW FAR
3 minOn foot · 180 m
TIME NEEDED
an hour in the village, half a day with Milia
BEST MONTHS
All year
WHERE
Shops on the square

Metsovo's woodcarvers, the 'taliadouroi', made iconostases for churches all over the Balkans; the one in Agia Paraskevi dates from 1730. Today woodcarving lives on mainly in Milia, and saddle-making, barrel-making, beehive-making and weaving are still practised, as the municipality's MARKATO project recorded in 2026.

WHO IT SUITS

  • anyone looking for something handmade

PRACTICAL

Woodcarvings and cheeses are sold in the shops around the square. In Milia, ask for a workshop that takes visitors. In August 2026 Anthochori ran a hands-on weaving workshop for children and adults.

A CAVEAT

Sources disagree on how many workshops Milia has (about 15 or about 40), so we give no number.

Official website · dimosmetsovou.gr

An arcade of shops in Metsovo full of wooden objects, spoons and souvenirs.
Wooden crafts along the arcade of shops

Photo: Jean Housen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

SOURCES

Checked on 25 October 2026.

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Úna suite in the evening: a hand holds a glass of rosé in front of the double bed with its carved wooden headboard

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FOOD & WINEALL YEAR

Katogi Averoff: a cellar of 1,200 barrels

In the late 1950s Evangelos Averoff planted what the winery calls Greece's first Cabernet Sauvignon here.

Tip: Open daily 10:00–16:00, last tour at 15:00.

How far
14 min on foot
Time needed:
1 hour; the tour lasts 30 minutes

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

A grill house with a timber oriel and outdoor tables under a vine on Metsovo's square.

3 minOn foot

Photo: Mixalis08 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

FOOD & WINEALL YEAR

The Metsovo table

Metsovo cooking rests on pies, 'the triumph of Vlach cooking' as Wace and Thompson wrote in 1914, with leek pie counted as the Metsovo pie, and on roast meat.

Tip: We do not list taverns we have not checked; when you arrive, the hostess will tell you where we eat.

How far
3 min on foot
Time needed:
an evening

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

A round of smoked Metsovone cheese with a wedge cut out, showing its brown smoked rind.

15 minOn foot

Photo: C messier · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

FOOD & WINEALL YEAR

Metsovone from the Foundation's dairy

Metsovone is a smoked, semi-hard pasta filata cheese, a protected designation of origin since 1996, aged at least 3 months.

Tip: Shop phone +30 26560 42765 (travel.gr, 2023); no opening hours are published, so ask us.

How far
15 min on foot
Time needed:
30 minutes

Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December