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The property is located in one of the traditional settlements 35 km north of Larissa.

It is a traditional building of 100 square meters made of stone and has 2 bedrooms, a living
room with kitchen and a bathroom.
It is owned by a plot of 200 square meters.

Ampelakia is a former community in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, Greece. Since the
2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Tempi, of which it is a municipal
unit and a municipal community.
Ampelakia is also regarded as the historical seat of the municipality

History of Ampelakia

The traveler who will feel the need to visit the historical town of Ampelakia (named `The
Jewel of Thessaly`), has to go up the well made road that starts from the Tempe Valley
After just 5 kilometers is Ampelakia. As we get closer to the town the mansion of George
Mavros (Schwartz) stands out. There is an unsure knowledge to exactly when and who
established Ampelakia because there are no clear documents that attest to this subject. The
inscriptions of churches and the recollections of their liturgical elements are the most
reliable records about its foundation.

The historian Elias Georgiou (`History and the Cooperative of Ambelakia`, Athens 1951, p.
9) published the recollection of the Bishop of Platamon Gregorios, in the ritual which Nikos
Gameos bought in 1580 and donated to the old church of Saint Paraskevi. Also, at the First
Convention of Studies on Ambelakia, on the 13–15 August 1994, Kostas Spanos, the history
researcher, stated that Ampelakia has existed as a settlement at least since the 14th
century AD, which means that it is one of the Thessalian settlements of the last Byzantine
era.

As far as concerns the name of the village, Ampelakia, some historians claim that it comes
from the corruption of the word `Amfilakia` which means a village between two streams.
But this is not right because the town is crossed by four streams and not two. The most
possible version is that the name of the town comes from the fact that in the village and in
the area around it there were a lot of vineyards (`Ambelia` in the Greek language).
According to a rescued register of the vineyards in the year 1899, we know that there were
700 owners of vineyards who cultivated 1,100 acres (4.5 km2).
The property is located in one of the traditional settlements 35 km north of Larissa.

It is a traditional building of 100 square meters made of stone and has 2 bedrooms, a living
room with kitchen and a bathroom.
It is owned by a plot of 200 square meters.

Ampelakia is a former community in the Larissa regional unit, Thessaly, G...
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