Agios Athanasios

At a distance of 30 km from the city of Edessa and very close to the ski center of Voras, is the traditional listed settlement of Agios Athanasios (or Tsegani).

An important attraction of the village is the church of the Ascension, which was built in the late 1700s. The village has everything in terms of food, coffee, drink and entertainment.

The village was built in the late 16th century at the foot of Mount Voras (or Kaimaktsalan), at the top of Piperitsa at 1,200 m, and was once a thriving livestock community until the 1970s. Then the vertical decline began, until 1995 when the whole village “fell apart” and reached the number of only two families. The rest either “took their pieces” or moved lower to Neos Agios Athanasios. With the construction of the ski resort in 1995 the situation was reversed.

Today it is a beautiful tourist village with tiled buildings, samples of very interesting traditional Macedonian architecture, which is perfectly combined with the natural landscape of the area. Everything is stone built, uniform and manicured, with flower beds and trees.