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Destination: Dendra-Platanoulia-Tyrnavos-Thessaly

The Platanoulia My forest hang out with friends there. It straddles the Titaricius or
Pear Festival Come and visit Roumani, You can also go fishing, there else Ksirias river. The bridge
The Pear Festival is the beautiful forest of are mainly wels catfish. almost collapsed after the
successfully held in our Platanoulia.Ιt is located in Dimitris Tsoutsas 5th flood in 1972.
village during the past few our village and Pinios passes Grade In 2010, the same problem
years and it aims to highlight through it. Alerdo Giata reappeared, but
the local products, especially It is the only forest, 6th Grade maintenance works were
the pear. through which a river flows. It made and the bridge was
The municipality of has a lot of trees, most of The Tyrnavos Bridge declared a protected
Tyrnavos, and specifically which are oaks. It is 13 An impressive stone monument by the Greek
the villages Dendra, kilometers far from Larissa bridge dominates the Ministry of Culture.
Platanoulia and the and it covers an area of about entrance of Tyrnavos. It was Leo Kazani 6th Grade
residential area of Agia 500 acres. built around 1900 and it is
Sofia, with only 1.000-1.100 On May Day, we barbecue composed of 10 arches. It The bees,
inhabitants, produce the and we have fun in Roumani. connects Tyrnavos with our best friends
most pears, not only in the We keep it clean and we Larissa. The honey bees play an
prefecture of Larissa, but in important role in nature. The
whole Thessaly. They hold fertilization of plants takes
and cultivate a huge area of place thanks to them.
25.000 acres. Τhe pear They are very hard-
harvest starts in the working. They belong to a
beginning of August and the small community, the hive. In
Pear Festival is held in early every hive there are about
autumn every year. The 80.000 bees. Every hive has
visitors can get to know other its queen bee, the worker
local products, apart from bees and the drones. The
pears, such as various fruits work of the queen bee is to
and tsipouro. lay eggs to revitalize the bee
At the end of the festival, population in the hive. All the
we all enjoy ourselves worker bees are females and
experiencing the folklore their job is to take care of the
musical event with live bee larvae and guard the
traditional music, songs and hive. There are six
dances. categories of worker bees.
Efsthathia Kaltsogianni Τhe drones are the male
6th Grade bees and they never sting.