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\n<\/div>\nLissa (or Lisa) and Lissa Port, as referred in portolanos, is probably related to Litochoron, one of the places with Mycenaean findings. Closely there is an unexplored ancient settlement, probably Pimplia, related to the musical \/ orphic myth and a second to Topoliani, between Litochoron and Leivithra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\nThe Platamon castle, is mostly considered to be built by the Franks, but its masonry indicates more periods<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Saint Dionysius had already settled at Olympus in 1540, when it seems that was built the first little church on one of the higher tops, Prophet Elias. The Saint founded the homonymous Monastery deep in the heart of Olympus and by this settlement he can be referred as the first explorer of the mountain at recent times.<\/p>\n
Sultan Mehmet A\u0384 (1611-1693) is also amongst the first visitors of Olympus, in 1669.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Plan of the Monastery of Saint Dionysius. Katholiko is a cruciform church of the Athonite type, surrounded by four chapels<\/p><\/div>\n
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\n<\/div>\nThe Monastery of Saint Dionysios by B. Ithakisios<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\nCopperplate of the Monastery of Saint Dionysion dated in 1808, referring to antiquities on the tops of Metamorphosis (2.669 m) and Prophet Elias (2.788 m)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
In the period of the\u00a0Ottoman Empire,\u00a0Olympus was the hiding place and base of operations for\u00a0klephts\u00a0and\u00a0armatoloi.<\/p>\n
In 1801, the English explorer E. Clarke was the first who identified Platamon with ancient Heraklion.\u00a0 Shortly afterwards W. Leake visited Dion (Malathria) and Petra, which he identified. He also noted the toumba of N. Ephesos (\u00abSpighi\u00bb), which he identified with Pieria city.<\/p>\n
The Greek Revolution against the Ottomans was declared in 1821. Soon after the Monastery of Saint Dionysios was partly blown by explosives.<\/p>\n
In 1855 the French archaeologist L. Heuzey visited the area. He described Platamon \/ Heraklion and determined with accuracy the position of Leivithra, identifying the word with the Latin toponym \u201cKanalia\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/a>The Monastery of Panagia Kanalon, which is firstly reported in 1699. The Katholiko is a church dated in 1883, after the destruction of the older one. The monastery probably took its name from Kanalia (= leivithra), the ravines between Upper and Lower Olympus, where it is built<\/p><\/div>\n
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He described the site of Dion and identified the river with Vafyras, as mentioned by Pausanias in the myth of Orpheus\u2019 murder. He walked up to Olympus, stopped at the metochion of Saint Dionysios, where amongst other things he saw a latin inscription that he could not read. After three more hours he reached the Monastery of Saint Dionysios and then he went uphill to Mavrologgos and to the tops Kalogiros (Saint Antonios?) and Itsouma (Metamorphosis?) where he mentions the existence of old brickwalls and also the locals\u2019 information about a marble inscribed stele.<\/p>\n
At Nea Ephesos (Spighi), he mentions the toumba, the church of Saint Prodromos, many marbles, byzantine antiquities, a latin and a greek inscription. At Kountouriotissa he mentions the church of Saint Paraskevi and close to the ruins of \u00abPalaiokountouriotissa\u00bb the church of Panagia. He highlighted the coexistence of greek and roman names for the same persons and located there the ancient city Atera. Then, he went to Petra Monastery, where he saw an early Christian sculpture of Saint Demetrios and to the ruined Petra, where he saw icons dated in 1710 and limestones in second use. He after visited Saint Demetrios and then returned to Katerini, ancient Atera according to Felix de Beaujour, which that period was fiefdom (tsifliki) of a bey, with Greek farmers.<\/p>\n
In 1881, after the annexation of Thessaly to Greece, Pieria was on the borderline with the free Greek state until 1912, when also Macedonia was liberated.<\/p>\n
On 2 August 1913, Christos Kakalos led for the first time Frederic Boisonnas (eminent photographer) and Daniel Baud-Bovy (chancellor of the School of Fine Arts in Switzerland) to the highest peak of Olympus.<\/p>\n
In 1921, Marcel Kurz, a Swiss engineer and climber, undertook the mapping of the mountain. Kurz and Kakalos, \u00abhovering between the sky and the abyss\u00bb, conquered the Throne of Zeus, the most precipitous of Olympus top.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nDaniel Baud-Bovy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\nChr. Kakalos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n