By Sarah Chevalley (text) and Laurent Fabre for
Le Figaro Magazine
(photos)
Through the open windows of the car seeps a scent of figs mixed with wet earth.
The water trickles over the strip of asphalt, flooding the road, as if in a torrent.
Leaving the shores of the Pagasetic Gulf with scintillating reflections, the road rises in the middle of an exuberant nature dotted with pomegranate trees, apple trees, wild almond trees ... Out of the trees, the path leads onto a ledge, offering a spectacular view of the gulf whose tip in the shape of a curved finger can be seen and the islands to the south, small dark spots placed on the water, while on the other side, the silhouette of Euboea emerges, dominated in the distance by the summits of Mount Parnassus.
The beauty and wealth of Pelion had not escaped the gods of antiquity.
They had made it their summer residence, leaving the snow-capped peaks of Olympus for a while.
In mythology, the shadow always succeeds the light.
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