Olympus Alpine Biblioteca was created to collect and share digital content of accessible non-profit/non-commodity information about climbing history of Mount Olympus. Inland from Greece’s famed islands, with their pristine beaches and clear blue waters, is a landscape of verdant pine forests, dramatic gorges, and steep mountainsides.Here stands the mythic Mount Olympus, the home of the Ancient Greek gods. Collection and destruction of nests, eggs or chicks and general disturbance and destruction of fauna species. De Olympus of Olympos, in dichterlijke taal ook wel Olymp (Grieks: Όλυμπος / Olympos, Nieuwgriekse uitspraak: [ˈɔlimbɔs]? Description. helenae), Poa thessala, Potentilla deorum, Rynchosinapis nivalis, Silene dionysii, Silene oligantha, Veronica thessalica, Viola striis-notata, Viola pseudograeca. Most climbs of Mount Olympus start from the town of Litochoro, which took the name City of Gods because of its location at the foot of the mountain. Higher it is more humid and severe, with more intense phenomena; in these locations it often snows all over the winter, while raining and snowing is not unusual, even in the summer. In that period Livadi in Olympus became the seat of the armatoliki of Olympus and Western Macedonia, with their first renowned commander Panos Zidros. The action of the klephts in Olympus led the Turks to visit their outrage on the klephts' ally-village of Milia (in the late 17th century), which they destroyed. Felling, humus transportation, rooting and collecting shrubs, plants and seeds. Its lowest altitude is 600 metres and its peak, Mytikas, at 2,917 metres. Olympus' dry foothills, known as the Xirokampi, are covered in chaparral and provides habitat for animals such as wild boar. With Athina Krikeli, Ioannis Stratakis, David Washington. Among its peaks are Mount Ólympos (Olympus)—the mythical seat of the gods, whose often cloud-topped summit rises to 9,570 feet (2,917 metres), the highest point in Greece—and the equally fine peaks of Mounts Kisszavos (Ossa) and Pílios (Pelion). Entrance to children under 14 years unescorted. Omissions? It is also registered in the list of Natura 2000 European Network as a special protection area and a site of community interest. On the southern foothills the great gorge of Ziliana, 13 km long, consists of a natural limit that separates the mountain from Lower Olympus. The average annual precipitation heights vary from 149 cm at Prionia (1,100 m) to 170 cm at Aghios Antonios, about half of them rainfall and hailstorms in summer and the rest snowfall in winter. Corrections? It is open from mid May to end of October and from December to mid April. It is managed by one of the best experienced Greek climbers, the geologist Mihalis Stylas. and some amphibians (8 species) in streams and seasonal ponds, as well as a great variety of insects, particularly butterflies.[25]. However, Olympus' armatoloi, even after their capitulation to Ali Pasha, never ceased fighting on land and at sea. Lace your climbing boots tight, because this quiz will test whether you can conquer the highest peaks of knowledge. This page was last edited on 28 November 2020, at 14:11. It was just one year after the liberation of northern Greece from Ottoman rule, on 2 August 1913, that the summit of Olympus was finally reached. Olympus" in international festivals. Greece's highest mountain, dwelling of the Twelve Gods of antiquity, has been the first region in the country to be applied specific protective rules, by its declaration as a National Park in 1938. 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