✔ Destination: Dendra-Platanoulia-Tyrnavos-Thessaly

The Platanoulia Pear Festival

The Pear Festival is successfully held in our village during the past few years and it aims to highlight the local products, especially the pear.

The municipality of Tyrnavos, and specifically the villages Dendra, Platanoulia and the residential area of Agia Sofia, with only 1.000-1.100 inhabitants, produce the most pears, not only in the prefecture of Larissa, but in whole Thessaly. They hold and cultivate a huge area of 25.000 acres. Τhe pear harvest starts in the beginning of August and the Pear Festival is held in early autumn every year. The visitors can get to know other local products, apart from pears, such as various fruits and tsipouro.

At the end of the festival, we all enjoy ourselves experiencing the folklore musical event with live traditional music, songs and dances. EfsthathiaKaltsogianni 6thGrade

My forest

Come and visit Roumani, the beautiful forest of Platanoulia.Ιt is located in our village and Pinios passes through it.

It is the only forest, through which a river flows. It has a lot of trees, most of which are oaks. It is 13 kilometers far from Larissa and it covers an area of about 500 acres.

On May Day, we barbecue and we have fun in Roumani. We keep it clean and we hang out with friends there. You can also go fishing, there are mainly wels catfish. DimitrisTsoutsas5th Grade AlerdoGiata 6thGrade

The Tyrnavos Bridge

An impressive stone bridge dominates the entrance of Tyrnavos. It was built around 1900 and it is composed of 10 arches. It connects Tyrnavos with Larissa.

It straddles the Titaricius or else Ksirias river. The bridge almost collapsed after the flood in 1972.

In 2010, the same problem reappeared, but maintenance works were made and the bridge was declared a protected monument by the Greek Ministry of Culture. LeoKazani6thGrade

The bees, our best friends

The honey bees play an important role in nature. The fertilization of plants takes place thanks to them.

They are very hardworking. They belong to a small community, the hive. In every hive there are about 80.000 bees. Every hive has its queen bee, the worker bees and the drones. The work of the queen bee is to lay eggs to revitalize the bee population in the hive. All the worker bees are females and their job is to take care of the bee larvae and guard the hive. There are six categories of worker bees. Τhe drones are the male bees and they never sting.

Their role is to fertilize the queen bee.

In recent years, the farmers spray their fields with many insecticides, causing problems not only to their own health, but also to their production and the bees. The bees are killed by the insecticides as they collect polluted nectar, pollen and water.

EkateriniMastorodimoy 5thGrade KonstadinosMatrakis 4thGrade RaphaelMalakos 4thGrade

The Hammam-The

Ottoman Baths of Tyrnavos

The Ottoman Baths of Tyrnavos are located outside the town of Tyrnavos, on the right side of the bridge that connects Larissa to Tyrnavos. Its construction is presumably placed in the early 19th century. Its square rooms are covered by hemispherical domes.

Τhe building was restored in the early 1990s. A small amphitheater and a canteen were constructed in the site, so that events would take place. Today it remains closed and neglected. AntonelaHebibasi 5thGrade

A letter to the Mayor of Tyrnavos and the 7th Antiquities Ephorate of Larissa

We are the students of the 6th Grade in our school and we participated together with schools from different places of Greece in the program “Learning about my place” . Through the research we carried out, we found out about a hammam (Turkish Baths). It is located in the provincial road of Ty r n a v o s - L a r i s s a and it constitutes the last cultural element from the era of the Ottoman rule. It was built in the 19th century and it was the place of the public baths. Τhe problem that worries us is the abandonment of the Hammam and the surrounding area. We should respect such sites and we should never ruin monuments, churches or anything else that concerns people, civilizations and cultures.

That’s why we decided to organize a clean-up day, so we ask for your valuable help to make the area look better. It would be a great idea to restore this ‘dump’ and change it into a place to be visited. If the site would function as a museum, it would be nice to have a canteen there as well.

We hope that our letter will touch your feelings and will affect your decision.

Thestudentsof the6thGrade

Dendra-Platanoulia PrimarySchool

Dendra-Platanoulia PrimarySchool/Tyrnavos, Larissa

Supervisors: EleniStrouziotou

6thGradeteacher

DimitrisGeorgoulas

Sportsteacher

Translation&Editing

XeniaArgyropoulou Englishteacher