Matsouki is a village of stone houses amidst fir trees with hospitable inhabitants. It is one of the Vlach-speaking villages of the Tzoumerka range, with a rich tradition and exceptional examples of traditional architecture, namely bridges, watermills and threshing floors, as well as the impressive Holy Monastery of Vyliza. There are three associations in the village that organise and participate in local cultural events.<\/p>\n\n
The Matsouki museum has an exceptional collection of 58 post-Byzantine icons exhibited in a single hall. They were painted in the 15th century by major icon painters in the Cretan and Ionian styles, as well as by anonymous, naïf icon-painters from Epirus.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Matsouki is a village of stone houses amidst fir trees with hospitable inhabitants. It is one of the Vlach-speaking villages of the Tzoumerka range, with a rich tradition and exceptional examples of traditional architecture, namely bridges, watermills and threshing floors, as well as the impressive Holy Monastery of Vyliza. There are three associations in the village that organise and participate in local cultural events. The Matsouki museum has an exceptional collection of 58 post-Byzantine icons exhibited in a single hall. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8400","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","destination_category-museums","destination_areas-matsouki"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n