Overview

If you wish to get to know the essence of the people from Kritsa, you must first gain an insight into the "soul" of their locality. Only by understanding their interconnectedness with the natural environment, and the nuances of their actions and behaviour, will you have an appreciation of the character and soul of the Kritsan people. Kritsa is a unique community of people with their own cultural progression, their own tradition, and their own local dialect.

Their locality rises gradually from a place where the sun shines on the sea, to the highest peaks of the Dikti Mountains towards the west, creating two flat geological plains in between, one called the plain of Kritsa where the village is situated at the lowest point, beside abundant water springs and extensive olive groves, and another at the Plateau of Katharo.

The subtlety of the natural climatic changes of the area, and its high altitude shape the soul of its people, a soul that is rough-hewn, yet hospitable; a soul of the mountains ...; unwrought ...; fearless, like that of an eagle ...;, exposed; a soul also of the plain, with refinement and reverence; ...;a soul akin to the calm blue and restlessness of the foam of the Mirambelo seashores.

SOURCE: Municipality of Aghios Nikolaos