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Bridges
Generally, the inaccessibility of the area combined with many rivers and streams, especially during the winter months, required in the past the construction of bridges. The «golden age» of Zagori has allowed wealthy families to fund expensive and sometimes unsuccessful village connection projects. Today, about 60 bridges are preserved in very good condition, and there are testimonies about another hundred that have been destroyed.
Saint Minas Bridge
Small bridge near Dilofo, built next to the homonymous small church. It is unknown when and by whom it was built.
Garani Bridge
The bridge is the one that connects the neighborhoods in the village of Vrysochori.
Kouitsa Bridge
It is located at the entrance of Vrysohori.
Masoras Bridge
It is located on the way to St Minas just outside Vrysochori.
Panagia Bridge
It is located in Skamneli (1808 AC).
Peyki Bridge
It is located in the centre of the village of Vrysochori.
Pitsioni Bridge
It is close to the village of Kipi.
Siomena and Stathis Bridge
They are both in the village of Dikorfo. The first one, is unknown by whom and when it was built, while for the second one, the built-in slab informs us that it was financed by Stasoulis Stathis in 1904.
Skarvena Bridge
It is located closeto Vrysochori.
Hatchiou Bridge
The bridge is near Tsepelovo (1804 AC).
The bridge of the Bear
It was built in 1806 at a cost of 40 Napoleons coins. It was formerly called “Xeropotamos bridge”…
Goura Bridge
Stone bridge on the old pedestrian street in the stream of Gura-Tristeno . Its distinctive feature is the tap with the stone sink on the bridge’s body.
Kalogeriko or Plakida
It is located near the village of Kipi (1814 AC) and is a typical three-arched bridge.
Kalouta Bridge
The three-arched bridge is located three kilometers east of the village of Anthrakitis…
Kaber Aga-Bridge
It is stone built on the Zagoritiko River (a tributary of Arachthos) and is an example of the architecture…
Bridge of Kleidonia – St Minas
The Kleidoniavitsa bridge was built in 1853 by Maljak Pasha’s Baltaki Chunoum and cost 37,000 grosia…
Kokkoros or Noutsos
It is located between the villages of Dilofo, Kipoi and Koukouli and is built in 1750 at the expense of the Consul General of Zagori Noutsos Kontodimou from Vradeto…
Kontodimos or Lazaridis
Το γεφύρι βρίσκεται μεταξύ των χωριών Κήποι και Κουκούλι (1830μ.Χ.)
Missios Bridge
It was funded by the ruler Alexis Misios from Monodendri in 1748. It is a double arched bridge, built on the Gorge of Vikos, it follows the stairs of Vitsa, a path that connects the villages of Vitsa and Koukouli.
Mylos Bridge
It is located in Elati and connects the village with Dilofo. It was named after the adjacent mill and was funded by Dimitris Xinos, the time that it was constructed remains uknown and it cost 1000 grosia, at the time.
Tsipiani Bridge
One-arched stone bridge with three more bows in its access to the left bank of the River Barda. Characteristic of the pseudo-arched shape of the large bow.
It was built in 1806 at a cost of 40 Napoleons coins. It was formerly called “Xeropotamos bridge” or “bridge of the Hebrew” because the sponsor of the construction of the bridge was a Jew, Solomon Matsilis of Ioannina, who had been in danger once that he faced harsh weather conditions. On August 6, 1906, the Turkish army killed Captain-Bear, a Macedonian chieftain from the village of Samarina, and at that time, the bridge was named after him.
The three-arched bridge is located three kilometers east of the village of Anthrakitis. It was built in 1800 by Gerodosi who offered 500 stones. The people of Kalouti asked Kosmas Aetolos to mediate the construction of the bridge and he scolded them because they did not have as their first priority the construction of a school.
It is stone built on the Zagoritiko River (a tributary of Arachthos) and is an example of the architecture of the craftsmen of the region and provides the visitor with the opportunity to experience the tradition and the culture of another era.
The Kleidoniavitsa bridge was built in 1853 by Maljak Pasha’s Baltaki Chunoum and cost 37,000 grosia. It unites St Minas and Klidonia and it was part of the road connecting Ioannina with Konitsa.
There are also bridges in the villages of Dipotamos, the double-arched bridge in the village of Mousiovo, the bridge of Milos, as well as in Manassi, the bridge of Matsopoulos and the bridge at the Tsioulou pit, with unknown data on time of its construction and its sponsors.
It is located between the villages of Dilofo, Kipoi and Koukouli and is built in 1750 at the expense of the Consul General of Zagori Noutsos Kontodimou from Vradeto. At the same time there was another bridge, which they also used to punish the zoo: In order to find out if a suspect was a zooist, they forced him to cross the bridge, carrying a goat on his back. If he passed by or admitted his act, he was acquitted. Otherwise, his punishment was drowning in the river. Near the bridge is the “Daveli Cave”, which was the refuge of the robber George Davelis in the summer of 1881, when he was hunting for a Turkish military passage. Davelis paid his salvation to Agia Paraskevi, because near the bridge there is a chapel of Agia Paraskevi. For this reason, the robber constructed the icon in the small cave. The second name of the bridge comes from the surname of the owner of the adjacent mill. This mill served the needs of the inhabitants of Koukouli, Kapesovou, Vradeto, Dilofou and Aspangelon.
The bridge is located between the villages of Kipi and Koukouli.
It is located between the villages of Dilofo, Kipoi and Koukouli and is built in 1750 at the expense of the Consul General of Zagori Noutsos Kontodimou from Vradeto. At the same time there was another bridge, which they also used to punish the zoo: In order to find out if a suspect was a zooist, they forced him to cross the bridge, carrying a goat on his back. If he passed by or admitted his act, he was acquitted. Otherwise, his punishment was drowning in the river. Near the bridge is the “Daveli Cave”, which was the refuge of the robber George Davelis in the summer of 1881, when he was hunting for a Turkish military passage. Davelis paid his salvation to Agia Paraskevi, because near the bridge there is a chapel of Agia Paraskevi. For this reason, the robber constructed the icon in the small cave. The second name of the bridge comes from the surname of the owner of the adjacent mill. This mill served the needs of the inhabitants of Koukouli, Kapesovou, Vradeto, Dilofou and Aspangelon.
It was funded by the ruler Alexis Misios from Monodendri in 1748. It is a double arched bridge, built on the Gorge of Vikos, it follows the stairs of Vitsa, a path that connects the villages of Vitsa and Koukouli.
