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Extract from the Knitsa Travel Guides:
KNITSA
is a sleepy little town whose most memorable features are a famous bridge and a view. The
bridge
, over the As, is a giant, built around 1870 but looking far older. The
view
comes from the town's amphitheatre-like setting on the slopes of Mount Trapeztsa, above a broad flood plain where the As and Vodhomtis rivers mingle with the Sarandporos before flowing through Albania to the sea.
The town was besieged by the Communist Democratic Army over New Year 1948, in their last, unsuccessful bid to establish a provisional capital. Much was destroyed in the fighting, though parts of the old b...
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