Ptolemaida: Askio
The landscape around Metamorfosi, near Ptolemaida, is mountainous and forested, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. The settlement lies in the regional unit of Kozani, on the eastern side of the Askio Mountains, a long upland range of Western Macedonia whose ridges separate the Eordaia basin from valleys farther west. Houses follow the bends of local roads, with tiled roofs and gardens set among wooded slopes. Metamorfosi belongs to the municipality of Eordaia, whose principal town is Ptolemaida. That town developed as the centre of Greece’s lignite-mining and power-generating district, an industrial history contrasting with the small residential communities of the surrounding foothills. Askio gives this part of northern Greece a distinctly inland highland character.
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