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3 34 Travelling around Greece June 2022
Location and many kinds of herons.
Vegoritida is the lake of L La ak ke e V Ve eg go or ri it ti id da a There are crayfish, clams
our area. It is located in and frogs. The plants it
northern Greece, on the hosts are mostly reeds.
border between Florina and
Pella. It is the third largest Fishing
lake in length and the In the past, fishing was a
largest lake in depth. very common profession
because it was the main oc-
The story about cupation in the village.
its level Every morning the fisher-
Vegoritida is connected men used to fish and sell
with the 3 lakes of the area, their fish in the village. Giant
(Zazari, Chimaditida, fish have been caught. The
Petron). These are the rem- record for the largest fish
nants of the huge ancient was a Wels fish which
lake Eordea. Vegoritida is weighed approximately 150
located at the lowest point kilos.
of Lake Eordea and so all
waters above that point end Sights
up there. According to the There are several attrac-
last 130 years records, the tions around the lake. One
level of Vegoritida is not sta- of them is the mosque from
ble. the times of the Ottoman
In 1954, however, an arti- Empire, of which only a part
ficial underground tunnel of the minaret remains till
was created that connected today. In the village of
Vegoritida with the Agra Perea there is a chapel of A-
swamp in order to create gios Theodoros where there
the Agra Hydroelectric is holy water and a rock to
Power Plant. It was made villages of Faragi and Klidi the Mount Voras and others pass through for blessing.
by Italians for war compen- referring to it. on the side of Vermion. From there, there is an a-
sation and it was 6 km long. In the area of Ptolemaida- mazing view of the lake. Y-
With the creation of this Kozani there was a large Life at the lake ou can also admire the view
project, it lost 2/3 of its vol- swamp called Yellow Lake Our lake has a large flora from the piers of the lake-
ume. It appears that the (Sarigkiol). After some tech- and fauna. It hosts fish such side villages. Inside the lake
level of the lake was never nical works, the channel as Wels catfish, carp, Thin- there is an island that you
stable. This conclusion is (Soulou) that was con- tail thresher that are very can visit by boat.
drawn from the story of Vok- structed has kept supplying tasty. It also hosts various
eria, an ancient roman city Vegoritida with water until kinds of birds that live in, n- The Problems
that is said to be sunk in the today. Vegoritida, however, ear or around it. Those are of the Lake
lake. Archaeological finds is also fed by various cur- Dalmatian pelicans, cor- Our lake has been facing
have also been found in the rents, some on the side of morants, ferruginous ducks problems for decades. One