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Extract from the Kallartes Travel Guides:
Beyond Kipna monastery, you can follow the road upstream for around half an hour through a tunnel and past a road bridge to join the remnant of a wonderful
kaldermi
climbing up to the village of
KALLARTES
, perched superbly above the upper reaches of the Kallaritiks River. This depleted village, one of the southernmost Vlach settlements in the Pndhos, was a veritable El Dorado until the close of the nineteenth century. Fame and fortune were based on its specialization in gold- and silversmithing, and even today the craftsmen of Ionnina are mostly of Kallaritiot descent - as is Bulgari, one of the world's most exclusiv...
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