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It is also a World Biosphere Reserve. The whole region of Pieria's Olympus was declared archaeological The Ruler Of Olypmus And God Of Thunder historical site Zeus the preservation of its monumental and historical character. Saint Augustine on The Ruler Of Olypmus And God Of Thunder. The Old Monastery of Dionysios altitude m lies in Enipeas' Zeus and is accessible by car from Litochoro. The Zeus international airport is that of Thessaloniki, and railway stations The Ruler Of Olypmus And God Of Thunder those of Litochoro, Katerini and Leptokarya. Retrieved 3 February The Ruler Of Olypmus And God Of Thunder Violence In Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime article: Monasteries and churches at The Ruler Of Olypmus And God Of Thunder Olympus.

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The left limb is the peak named Mytikas or Pantheon. It is Greece's highest peak. Then, on the right is Stefani or Thronos Dios [Throne of Zeus — 2, metres 9, ft ] , which presents the most impressive and steep peak of Olympus, with its last sharply rising meters presenting the greatest challenge for climbers. On the east side of the high peaks the steep slopes form zone like parallel folds, the 'Zonaria'. Even narrower and steeper scorings, the 'Loukia', lead to the peak. Olympus has numerous ravines and gullies. Most distinguishable of the ravines are those of Mavrologos-Enipeas 14 km and Mavratzas-Sparmos 13 km near Bara and 'cut' the massif in two oval portions.

On the southern foothills the great gorge of Ziliana, 13 km long, consists of a natural limit that separates the mountain from Lower Olympus. There are also many precipices and a number of caves, even nowadays [ when? The form and layout of the rocks favor the emergence of numerous springs, mainly lower than 2, m, of small seasonal lakes and streams and of a small river, Enipeas, with its springs in the site Prionia and its estuary in the Aegean Sea. Beekes the word is of pre-Greek origin and he speculates that it originally meant "mountain". Homer Iliad 5. Mount Olympus was historically also known as Mount Belus [ citation needed ] , after Iliad 1. In Ancient Greek religion and mythology , "Olympus" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods.

Thessalian Olympus is the highest peak in any territory with Greek settlement and came to be seen as the "Pan-Hellenic" representative of the mythological seat of the gods, by at least the 5th century BC, as Herodotus 1. In Pieria , at Olympus's northern foot, the mythological tradition had placed the nine Muses , patrons of the Fine Arts, daughters of Zeus and the Titanide Mnemosyne. In antiquity, the Olympus massif formed the border between Thessaly and Macedon. The history of the surrounding area is consequently of interest in the context of the Rise of Macedon , the Chremonidean War and the Macedonian Wars during the 4th to 2nd centuries BC.

In the period of the Ottoman Empire the mountain was a hiding place and base of operations for klephts and armatoloi. It was known as Semavatevi in Turkish during the nearly years of Ottoman rule. In Olympus, the second armatoliki was founded, led by Kara Michalis in 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.

In that period Livadi in Olympus became the seat of the armatoliki of Olympus and Western Macedonia, with their first renowned commander Panos Zidros. In the 18th century the Turks had to replace the armatoloi who very often joined the klephts with Muslim Albanian armatoloi who ravaged the countryside of Macedonia. However, Olympus's armatoloi, even after their capitulation to Ali Pasha , never ceased fighting on land and at sea.

Among them who were active there and in nearby regions were Nikotsaras, Giorgakis Olympios and the legendary family of Lazaioi. In the early 20th century, even for some time after the liberation from the Ottoman Empire , robbers were active in the region — the best known of them the notorious Giagoulas, while during the German invasion in the Royal Hellenic Army fought significant battles along with units of New Zealanders and Australians.

During the German Occupation — the mountain was one of the centers of the Greek Resistance , while a little later the Greek Civil War —49 started there, in Litochoro. The whole region of Pieria's Olympus was declared archaeological and historical site for the preservation of its monumental and historical character. Five km away from the sea is Dion , sacred city of the ancient Macedons, dedicated to Zeus and the Twelve Olympians.

Its prosperity lasted from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD. The excavations, continuing since , have revealed numerous findings of the Macedonian, the Hellenistic and the Roman period. Currently there is a unique archaeological park of hectares, with the ancient town and the sacred places of worship, outside its walls. Many statues and other invaluable items are kept in the nearby Dion's archaeological museum.

According to a tradition Orpheus, son of Apollo and Calliope one of the Muses , taught here the mystic ceremonies of worship of Dionysus also known as Bacchus. To the north the ancient Pydna is located. Here, in BC, the decisive battle between the Macedonians and the Romans took place. It was built in the 16th century by Saint Dionysios of Olympus , who also founded the most significant monastery in the region. The Old Monastery of Dionysios altitude m lies in Enipeas' gorge and is accessible by car from Litochoro. It was looted and burned by the Ottomans and in it was destroyed by the German invaders, who suspected it was a guerrilla den.

Nowadays it has been partially restored and operates as a dependency of the New Monastery of Dionysios , that is outside Litochoro. Further west, in the edge of Mavratza stream, at 1, m, there is the Agia Triada Sparmou Monastery , that flourished in the early 18th century, possessed great property and assisted to establish the famous Tsaritsani ' school. It was abandoned in , but in it was completely renovated and reopened as a male monastery, affiliated to Elassona 's diocese. Archaeological evidence suggests that Mount Olympus was regularly visited in religious pilgrimages through antiquity and the early middle ages.

For instance, ancient Greek pottery, coins, and evidence of sacrificial ashes estimated to be from B. Plutarch , writing during the Roman Empire , reported that writings and sacrificial ashes left by priests and religious pilgrims on the summit of the mountains of Mount Kyllini and Mount Olympus could be found intact several years later, neither being washed away by rains or scattered by winds.

Plutarch cited this as evidence that the highest mountains on earth were above the clouds and winds. Augustine of Hippo , writing in the early middle ages, similarly reported in On Genesis that "on the peak of Mount Olympus, which is said to rise above the area of this humid air, we are told, certain letters are regularly made in the dust and are a year later found whole and unmarred by those who climb that mountain for their solemn memorials. Richter tried to reach the summit in but was abducted by klephts , who also killed the Ottoman gendarmes that accompanied him. It was just one year after the liberation of northern Greece from Ottoman rule, on 2 August , that the summit of Olympus was finally reached.

Afterwards, and till his death in , he was the official guide on Olympus. In , he and Marcel Kurz reached the second highest summit of Olympus, Stefani. Based on these explorations, Kurz in edited Le Mont Olympe , a book that includes the first detailed map of the summits. In , the painter Vasilis Ithakisios climbed Olympus together with Kakkalos, reaching a cave that he named Shelter of the Muses , and he spent many summers painting views of the mountain.

Olympus was later photographed and mapped in detail by others, and a series of successful climbs and winter ascents of the steepest summits in difficult weather conditions took place. Climbing Mount Olympus is a non-technical hike, except for the final section from the Skala summit to the Mytikas peak, which is a YDS class 3 rock scramble.

It is estimated that 10, people climb Mount Olympus each year, most of them reaching only the Skolio summit. 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. From there a road goes to Prionia, where the hike begins at the bottom of the mountain. Generally speaking Olympus's climate can be described as one of Mediterranean type with continental influence. Its local variations are the result of the impact of the sea and the rugged relief of the region. In the lower locations Litochoro and the foothills the climate is typically Mediterranean, i.

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. As the altitude rises, the phenomena are more intense and the variations of temperature and humidity are often sudden. The coastal northeast slopes of Olympus receive more rain than the continental northwest, so, as a result, there is a clear difference in vegetation, being more abundant in the first of them. Hottest month is August, while coldest is February. The mountain's highest zone, over 2, metres, is snowcapped for about nine months September to May.

In some places the winds gather snow, 8—10 metres thick anemosouria in Greek , while in some deep ravines the snow is maintained all over the year everlasting snow. For this Olympus's alpine region, recordings have been made in the s in the highest-altitude weather station in Greece, that was established on the summit of Aghios Antonios 2, m , providing a number of interesting data for the mountain's climate.

The average annual precipitation heights vary from cm at Prionia 1, m to cm at Aghios Antonios, about half of them rainfall and hailstorms in summer and the rest snowfall in winter. The weather may change several times in the same day. In summer rainfalls are frequent, commonly as evening thunderstorms, many times accompanied by hail and strong winds. However water springs over 2, metres are scarce and visitors should ensure that they have always water and of course the necessary clothing for any weather conditions.

Of them are characterized as significant, 56 are Greek endemic and of them 23 are local endemic, i. An important book about the plants and flowers, from the beach of the Aegean Sea up to the upper regions of Mount Olympus, was written in by the Swedish botanist Arne Strid. Most of those found in lower altitude are the common Mediterranean and central European species.

Ramonda heldreichii syn. Jankaea heldreichii , a plant relict of the Ice age , is of particular interest to botanists. The intense diversity of the landscape, the varying orientation of the slopes and their position in relation to the sea affect locally Olympus's climate and so a local microclimate prevails, combined with the geological background and the soil favor the growth of particular vegetation types and biotopes. Generally Olympus's northeast side is densely forested, as it receives the most rainfall, while the southwest one has significantly sparser vegetation.

In Olympus there are generally four sequential flora zones, but due to the complex topography and variety of microclimates, these do not form an obvious clear sequence with altitude. In the altitude between and metres occurs the evergreen broadleaf trees' zone maquis. Along with oak Quercus ilex and Greek strawberry tree there occur kermes oak , strawberry tree , Phillyrea latifolia , bay laurel , cedar and others. Of the deciduous species most common are Fraxinus , Ulmus , Montpellier maple , Judas tree , terebinth , Cotinus coggygria and others. The evergreen broadleaf trees' zone is gradually replaced by ecosystems of European black pine , that forms compact clusters, with no intermediate zone of deciduous oaks, although trees of these species occur sporadically within clusters of black pine.

On the northern slopes of Xirolakos valley, at altitude between and metres, there is a high forest of downy oak of about hectares. The black pine dominates on the eastern and northern side of the mountain, between and 1, metres. In this zone there is also hybrid fir in small groups and scrubs or small clumps, particularly in the lower region and in the sites Naoumi west and Stalamatia and Polykastro east , where it is mixed with black pine and Bosnian pine. In this zone there is also beech. While in the neighboring mountains Pierians and Ossa it creates an extended vegetation zone, in Olympus it is restricted to small clusters, appearing as islets, mainly in more humid locations and the best soils. A particularly rich variety of trees and shrubs is found in Enipeas' gorge.

One can see there elm , cherry plum , European yew , hazel , holly , Cornus mas , manna ash , maple and a considerable variety of herbaceous plants. Gorges and ravines are covered by oriental planes , willows , black alders and riverside greenery. Typical species of this zone is Bosnian pine. This rare kind of pine occurs sporadically higher than 1, metres and gradually replaces the black pine, while over 1, metres it creates an almost unmixed forest. Another feature of this zone is that over 2, metres the trees appear in a crawling form. The region, where Bosnian pine grows, is mostly dry and its slopes are rocky. There are no springs or water streams.

The vegetation growing there is adapted to specific local conditions and represented by typical shrubs, graminaceous , chasmophytes etc. Beyond Bosnian pine's zone follows an extensive zone, without trees, with alpine meadows, consisted by a mosaic of grassland ecosystems, depending on the topography, the slope and the orientation of the ground. In general, this alpine flora with more than plant species, contains snow accumulation meadows, grassy swamps, alpine scree and rock crevices. On the meadows, the rocks and the steep slopes live most of the endemic plants, among them some of the most beautiful wildflowers in Greece.

Half of them are found only in the Balkans and 23 only in Olympus and nowhere else. Achillea ambrosiaca , Alyssum handelii , Asprerula muscosa , Aubrieta thessala , Campanula oreadum , Carum adamovicii , Centaurea incompleta , Centaurea litochorea , Centaurea transiens , Cerastrium theophrasti , Coincla nivalis , Erysimum olympicum , Festuca olympica , Genista sakellariadis , Ramonda heldreichii , Ligusticum olympicum , Melampyrus ciliatum , Ophrys helenae Ophrys sphegodes subsp. Large mammals, that lived formerly in the region, like deer , have disappeared. In ancient times there were lions Pausanias , while at least until the 16th century there were bears Life of St.

Dionysios the Later. There have also been detected species of birds like sparrowhawk , cinereous vulture , rock partridge , white stork , rock dove , European robin , lanner falcon , peregrine falcon , tree falcon, golden eagle , short-toed snake eagle , booted eagle and hoopoe. Many of them, particularly the birds of prey, are scarce. In addition there are the common reptiles of Greek fauna 22 species like snakes , turtles , lizards , etc. 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 The aim of this declaration was " In addition the declaration has aimed promoting scientific research along with environmental education for the public and tourist development in the region.

Specific laws prohibit all forms of exploitation on the eastern side of the mountain in an area of about 4, hectares, that is the core of the Park. A wider region, around this core, has been designated "peripheral zone of the National Park", so that its managing and exploitation to be done so as not to adversely affect the core's protection. At present, the park has been expanded to 24, hectares. Its lowest altitude is metres and its peak, Mytikas, at 2, metres. It is also registered in the list of Natura European Network as a special protection area and a site of community interest. It informs their visitors about geology, archaeological sites, mythology, monasteries, plants, animals and other subjects affecting Mount Olympus.

Hikers will find help from professional rangers, a guide provides tours for groups in the mountain area. The Park is protected by specific legislation. Most distinguishable of the ravines are those of Mavrologos-Enipeas 14 km and Mavratzas-Sparmos 13 km near Bara and 'cut' the massif in two oval portions. On the southern foothills the great gorge of Ziliana, 13 km long, consists of a natural limit that separates the mountain from Lower Olympus. There are also many precipices and a number of caves, even nowadays [ when? The form and layout of the rocks favor the emergence of numerous springs, mainly lower than 2, m, of small seasonal lakes and streams and of a small river, Enipeas, with its springs in the site Prionia and its estuary in the Aegean Sea.

Beekes the word is of pre-Greek origin and he speculates that it originally meant "mountain". Homer Iliad 5. Mount Olympus was historically also known as Mount Belus [ citation needed ] , after Iliad 1. In Ancient Greek religion and mythology , "Olympus" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods. Thessalian Olympus is the highest peak in any territory with Greek settlement and came to be seen as the "Pan-Hellenic" representative of the mythological seat of the gods, by at least the 5th century BC, as Herodotus 1.

In Pieria , at Olympus's northern foot, the mythological tradition had placed the nine Muses , patrons of the Fine Arts, daughters of Zeus and the Titanide Mnemosyne. In antiquity, the Olympus massif formed the border between Thessaly and Macedon. The history of the surrounding area is consequently of interest in the context of the Rise of Macedon , the Chremonidean War and the Macedonian Wars during the 4th to 2nd centuries BC.

In the period of the Ottoman Empire the mountain was a hiding place and base of operations for klephts and armatoloi. It was known as Semavatevi in Turkish during the nearly years of Ottoman rule. In Olympus, the second armatoliki was founded, led by Kara Michalis in 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.

In that period Livadi in Olympus became the seat of the armatoliki of Olympus and Western Macedonia, with their first renowned commander Panos Zidros. In the 18th century the Turks had to replace the armatoloi who very often joined the klephts with Muslim Albanian armatoloi who ravaged the countryside of Macedonia. However, Olympus's armatoloi, even after their capitulation to Ali Pasha , never ceased fighting on land and at sea. Among them who were active there and in nearby regions were Nikotsaras, Giorgakis Olympios and the legendary family of Lazaioi. In the early 20th century, even for some time after the liberation from the Ottoman Empire , robbers were active in the region — the best known of them the notorious Giagoulas, while during the German invasion in the Royal Hellenic Army fought significant battles along with units of New Zealanders and Australians.

During the German Occupation — the mountain was one of the centers of the Greek Resistance , while a little later the Greek Civil War —49 started there, in Litochoro. The whole region of Pieria's Olympus was declared archaeological and historical site for the preservation of its monumental and historical character. Five km away from the sea is Dion , sacred city of the ancient Macedons, dedicated to Zeus and the Twelve Olympians. Its prosperity lasted from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD. The excavations, continuing since , have revealed numerous findings of the Macedonian, the Hellenistic and the Roman period. Currently there is a unique archaeological park of hectares, with the ancient town and the sacred places of worship, outside its walls.

Many statues and other invaluable items are kept in the nearby Dion's archaeological museum. According to a tradition Orpheus, son of Apollo and Calliope one of the Muses , taught here the mystic ceremonies of worship of Dionysus also known as Bacchus. To the north the ancient Pydna is located. Here, in BC, the decisive battle between the Macedonians and the Romans took place. It was built in the 16th century by Saint Dionysios of Olympus , who also founded the most significant monastery in the region.

The Old Monastery of Dionysios altitude m lies in Enipeas' gorge and is accessible by car from Litochoro. It was looted and burned by the Ottomans and in it was destroyed by the German invaders, who suspected it was a guerrilla den. Nowadays it has been partially restored and operates as a dependency of the New Monastery of Dionysios , that is outside Litochoro. Further west, in the edge of Mavratza stream, at 1, m, there is the Agia Triada Sparmou Monastery , that flourished in the early 18th century, possessed great property and assisted to establish the famous Tsaritsani ' school.

It was abandoned in , but in it was completely renovated and reopened as a male monastery, affiliated to Elassona 's diocese. Archaeological evidence suggests that Mount Olympus was regularly visited in religious pilgrimages through antiquity and the early middle ages. For instance, ancient Greek pottery, coins, and evidence of sacrificial ashes estimated to be from B. Plutarch , writing during the Roman Empire , reported that writings and sacrificial ashes left by priests and religious pilgrims on the summit of the mountains of Mount Kyllini and Mount Olympus could be found intact several years later, neither being washed away by rains or scattered by winds.

Plutarch cited this as evidence that the highest mountains on earth were above the clouds and winds. Augustine of Hippo , writing in the early middle ages, similarly reported in On Genesis that "on the peak of Mount Olympus, which is said to rise above the area of this humid air, we are told, certain letters are regularly made in the dust and are a year later found whole and unmarred by those who climb that mountain for their solemn memorials.

Richter tried to reach the summit in but was abducted by klephts , who also killed the Ottoman gendarmes that accompanied him. It was just one year after the liberation of northern Greece from Ottoman rule, on 2 August , that the summit of Olympus was finally reached. Afterwards, and till his death in , he was the official guide on Olympus. In , he and Marcel Kurz reached the second highest summit of Olympus, Stefani. Based on these explorations, Kurz in edited Le Mont Olympe , a book that includes the first detailed map of the summits.

In , the painter Vasilis Ithakisios climbed Olympus together with Kakkalos, reaching a cave that he named Shelter of the Muses , and he spent many summers painting views of the mountain. Olympus was later photographed and mapped in detail by others, and a series of successful climbs and winter ascents of the steepest summits in difficult weather conditions took place. Climbing Mount Olympus is a non-technical hike, except for the final section from the Skala summit to the Mytikas peak, which is a YDS class 3 rock scramble. It is estimated that 10, people climb Mount Olympus each year, most of them reaching only the Skolio summit.

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. From there a road goes to Prionia, where the hike begins at the bottom of the mountain. Generally speaking Olympus's climate can be described as one of Mediterranean type with continental influence. Its local variations are the result of the impact of the sea and the rugged relief of the region. In the lower locations Litochoro and the foothills the climate is typically Mediterranean, i. 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.

As the altitude rises, the phenomena are more intense and the variations of temperature and humidity are often sudden. The coastal northeast slopes of Olympus receive more rain than the continental northwest, so, as a result, there is a clear difference in vegetation, being more abundant in the first of them. Hottest month is August, while coldest is February. The mountain's highest zone, over 2, metres, is snowcapped for about nine months September to May. In some places the winds gather snow, 8—10 metres thick anemosouria in Greek , while in some deep ravines the snow is maintained all over the year everlasting snow. For this Olympus's alpine region, recordings have been made in the s in the highest-altitude weather station in Greece, that was established on the summit of Aghios Antonios 2, m , providing a number of interesting data for the mountain's climate.

The average annual precipitation heights vary from cm at Prionia 1, m to cm at Aghios Antonios, about half of them rainfall and hailstorms in summer and the rest snowfall in winter. The weather may change several times in the same day. In summer rainfalls are frequent, commonly as evening thunderstorms, many times accompanied by hail and strong winds. However water springs over 2, metres are scarce and visitors should ensure that they have always water and of course the necessary clothing for any weather conditions.

Of them are characterized as significant, 56 are Greek endemic and of them 23 are local endemic, i. An important book about the plants and flowers, from the beach of the Aegean Sea up to the upper regions of Mount Olympus, was written in by the Swedish botanist Arne Strid. Most of those found in lower altitude are the common Mediterranean and central European species. Ramonda heldreichii syn. Jankaea heldreichii , a plant relict of the Ice age , is of particular interest to botanists. The intense diversity of the landscape, the varying orientation of the slopes and their position in relation to the sea affect locally Olympus's climate and so a local microclimate prevails, combined with the geological background and the soil favor the growth of particular vegetation types and biotopes.

Generally Olympus's northeast side is densely forested, as it receives the most rainfall, while the southwest one has significantly sparser vegetation. In Olympus there are generally four sequential flora zones, but due to the complex topography and variety of microclimates, these do not form an obvious clear sequence with altitude. In the altitude between and metres occurs the evergreen broadleaf trees' zone maquis. Along with oak Quercus ilex and Greek strawberry tree there occur kermes oak , strawberry tree , Phillyrea latifolia , bay laurel , cedar and others. Of the deciduous species most common are Fraxinus , Ulmus , Montpellier maple , Judas tree , terebinth , Cotinus coggygria and others. The evergreen broadleaf trees' zone is gradually replaced by ecosystems of European black pine , that forms compact clusters, with no intermediate zone of deciduous oaks, although trees of these species occur sporadically within clusters of black pine.

On the northern slopes of Xirolakos valley, at altitude between and metres, there is a high forest of downy oak of about hectares. The black pine dominates on the eastern and northern side of the mountain, between and 1, metres. In this zone there is also hybrid fir in small groups and scrubs or small clumps, particularly in the lower region and in the sites Naoumi west and Stalamatia and Polykastro east , where it is mixed with black pine and Bosnian pine. In this zone there is also beech. While in the neighboring mountains Pierians and Ossa it creates an extended vegetation zone, in Olympus it is restricted to small clusters, appearing as islets, mainly in more humid locations and the best soils.

A particularly rich variety of trees and shrubs is found in Enipeas' gorge. One can see there elm , cherry plum , European yew , hazel , holly , Cornus mas , manna ash , maple and a considerable variety of herbaceous plants. Gorges and ravines are covered by oriental planes , willows , black alders and riverside greenery. Typical species of this zone is Bosnian pine. This rare kind of pine occurs sporadically higher than 1, metres and gradually replaces the black pine, while over 1, metres it creates an almost unmixed forest.

Another feature of this zone is that over 2, metres the trees appear in a crawling form. The region, where Bosnian pine grows, is mostly dry and its slopes are rocky. There are no springs or water streams. The vegetation growing there is adapted to specific local conditions and represented by typical shrubs, graminaceous , chasmophytes etc. Beyond Bosnian pine's zone follows an extensive zone, without trees, with alpine meadows, consisted by a mosaic of grassland ecosystems, depending on the topography, the slope and the orientation of the ground.

In general, this alpine flora with more than plant species, contains snow accumulation meadows, grassy swamps, alpine scree and rock crevices. On the meadows, the rocks and the steep slopes live most of the endemic plants, among them some of the most beautiful wildflowers in Greece. Half of them are found only in the Balkans and 23 only in Olympus and nowhere else. Achillea ambrosiaca , Alyssum handelii , Asprerula muscosa , Aubrieta thessala , Campanula oreadum , Carum adamovicii , Centaurea incompleta , Centaurea litochorea , Centaurea transiens , Cerastrium theophrasti , Coincla nivalis , Erysimum olympicum , Festuca olympica , Genista sakellariadis , Ramonda heldreichii , Ligusticum olympicum , Melampyrus ciliatum , Ophrys helenae Ophrys sphegodes subsp.

Large mammals, that lived formerly in the region, like deer , have disappeared. In ancient times there were lions Pausanias , while at least until the 16th century there were bears Life of St. Dionysios the Later. There have also been detected species of birds like sparrowhawk , cinereous vulture , rock partridge , white stork , rock dove , European robin , lanner falcon , peregrine falcon , tree falcon, golden eagle , short-toed snake eagle , booted eagle and hoopoe. Many of them, particularly the birds of prey, are scarce. In addition there are the common reptiles of Greek fauna 22 species like snakes , turtles , lizards , etc. 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 The aim of this declaration was " In addition the declaration has aimed promoting scientific research along with environmental education for the public and tourist development in the region.

Specific laws prohibit all forms of exploitation on the eastern side of the mountain in an area of about 4, hectares, that is the core of the Park. A wider region, around this core, has been designated "peripheral zone of the National Park", so that its managing and exploitation to be done so as not to adversely affect the core's protection. At present, the park has been expanded to 24, hectares. Its lowest altitude is metres and its peak, Mytikas, at 2, metres. It is also registered in the list of Natura European Network as a special protection area and a site of community interest. It informs their visitors about geology, archaeological sites, mythology, monasteries, plants, animals and other subjects affecting Mount Olympus.

Hikers will find help from professional rangers, a guide provides tours for groups in the mountain area. The Park is protected by specific legislation. Under the "Special Regulation" entrance to the Park is allowed only by the existing roads and traffic is allowed from sunrise to sunset only on formed paths. The visitor should also know that the following activities are not allowed: [b]. Olympus' massif is found about in the middle of Continental Greece and is easy to approach from the national railway network on the Athens-Thessaloniki line and the secondary roads that connect towns and villages around the mountain, with the principal base for excursions being the town of Litochoro, where there are many hotels and taverns.

In addition, on Pieria's coastal zone there are many camp sites and lodgings. The nearest international airport is that of Thessaloniki, and railway stations are those of Litochoro, Katerini and Leptokarya. Map for an overview: [40] More detailed map of the Olympos region: [11].

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