Land Plot for Sale

FOR SALE PLOT 247 sq.m with building permit for 2-storeyed HOUSES with basement, at ANAKASIA (VOLOS) 

The grant for building is revised and in valid. The plot is sited at an amazing location, at a fully green environment, bearing with a large façade to a road.

Anakassia is located on the west, before Ano Volos. Since 1991 it has been the seat of the Municipality of Iolkos. 

Particular reference point consists the house of Giannis Kontos, built in 1912, with the extraordinary wall paintings of the popular painter Theophilos. Since 1981 it has been operating as “Theofilos Museum”.

The villages of Ano Volos are the ones the visitor of Pelion firstly meets, enchanting him and offering unique moments of escape from the hum of a big city. By car or two-wheeled vehicle, the landscape is idyllic.  The resident’s whitewashed mansions alternates with the carved and beautiful gray stone plaque of Pelion. As he keeps going, he starts to feel the pulse of the Centauri mountain. The traditions and myths that accompany the area begin to unfold, thus the visitor becomes a mystic of this incomparable beauty.

In the 3rd century B.C., king Demetrius I of Macedon decided to establish a new capital at the edge of Pagasitikos gulf, for the most effective administration of his state, thus the city was named Demetrias. Its first concern was to fortify it with strong walls. As time went by, the city was developed into an international trading port.

Between Volos and Dimitriada, the connecting link is the Municipality of Iolkos. The residents of today's Municipality of Iolkos, according to historical data, are the descendants of the last inhabitants of Demetrias. In 1423, when Thessaly was occupied by the hordes of Turkhan Wei, (general of Murad II) the Ottomans drove Greeks out of the "Castle" of Golo and were settled there because the place provided security. There, were also resided the Turkish settlers transferred from Asia. These settlers were given several of the most fertile fields of the surrounding area.

The persecuted Greeks settled in the western foothills of Pelion where they transferred their families and their households. They built homes and churches, planted trees and brought water from the mountain. Their occupations continued uninterruptedly by cultivating the estates left to them -quite many in the entire basin of today's Volos. The name of these settlements was Golos or Volos, a flourishing economic and political society, especially in the 19th century.