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Metsovone from the Foundation's dairy

  • 15 min on foot
  • All year
  • 30 minutes
A round of smoked Metsovone cheese with a wedge cut out, showing its brown smoked rind.
Metsovone, Metsovo's smoked PDO cheese

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

HOW FAR
15 minOn foot · 1.1 km
TIME NEEDED
30 minutes
BEST MONTHS
All year
WHERE
The Tositsas Foundation dairy

Metsovone is a smoked, semi-hard pasta filata cheese, a protected designation of origin since 1996, aged at least 3 months. The Baron Michael Tositsas Foundation dairy has made it since 1958, and its shop also sells metsovella, graviera, cow's-milk and goat's-milk cheeses.

WHO IT SUITS

  • anyone planning dinner in the suite: cheese and a bottle from Katogi
  • a gift to take home

PRACTICAL

Shop phone +30 26560 42765 (travel.gr, 2023); no opening hours are published, so ask us. Úna and Duáo have full kitchens, Tréi and Pátru a kitchenette.

A CAVEAT

Shop hours and dairy tours: ⚠ unverified.

SOURCES

Checked on 25 October 2026.

STAY IDEAS

Stay ideas that include it

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

All year2 nights, Friday to Sunday

Úna · a glass of rosé by the bed

A Katogi wine weekend

The cellar of 1,200 barrels is a 14-minute walk from our gate, on the level.

SUITE Tréi

NEXT DATES

  • The next weekend 6–8 November 2026 Available
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Photo: Mixalis08 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Photo: C messier · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Photo: C messier · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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6 min on foot
Time needed:
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Best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December