Alevizou - Lesiani - Sourvia monastery
- Difficulty / Distance
- Easy
- 13.81km
- Altitudinal difference
- 377m
- 709m
- 332m
- Ascend/Descend
- 1332m
- 666m
- 666m
- Duration
- 08:00
- Drinking water
- No
- Marking
- Red marks
A fairly long circular route, with which we pass through two stone arched bridges in the ravine of Kaliakouda (Alevizou and Leschiani), from the monastery of Sourvia and the chapel of Agios Nikolaos. The time was 8 hours, but at a leisurely pace and long stops. The course can be shortened by about 2.5 hours if we skip the monastery of Sourvia-Agios Nikolaos and go up to Loutsa directly from the bridge of Leschiani. Marking with red marks. The course begins and ends at Mavrolithari. There we go from a dirt road that is passable and from a car. Just before the parking lot of the church in Phytoko we go left on a cement road with a sign to 'Gorgoypikou Monastery'. The road becomes asphalt and then a dirt road. Go constantly straight, leaving intersections to the right towards 'Lombarda', 'Gioni' and 'Moni Gorgoypikou'. At 5.5 km from Phytoko (of which 3.5 on a dirt road), we reach the location Mavrolithari, where the dirt road turns right starting downhill to the ravine of Kaliakouda (Xiria). There we leave our car and start the journey. We descend to the Alevizos bridge, from there with a path we go to Leschiani and its bridge, we continue uphill to Sourvias monastery (maximum altitude 700 m.), From there by road first and then by path we pass by Agios Nikolaos, we cross the stream of Kalia we climb the plain of Loutsa with the characteristic tree (altitude 693 m.), from where we return to the starting point. The route is recommended for spring and autumn. It is also recommended to wear long pants and to have a pruner with us, because some pieces suffered from dense vegetation at the time of recording (Leschiani-Sourvia and Loutsa-Mavrolithari), however they remain passable. The fountain in Leschiani usually has no water, so we must have enough with us.