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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Mark Jones

This region of Greece is beautiful, crowd-free and a Unesco site – and you’ve probably never heard of it

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It’s possible I got a bit carried away. We were standing on the central arch of the Kalogeriko-Plakidas bridge in central Zagori, on a crystal-clear summer morning. An emerald-coloured river snaked away through a valley of deep green trees towards a mountain village. There was the slightest breath of wind.

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