Efpalio

Efpalio (Greek: Ευπάλιο) is a village and a former municipality in Phocis, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Dorida, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 6,507 (2001).

The municipal unit Efpalio consists of sixteen communities (population in 2001 between brackets): Kastraki (782), Efpalio (762), Managouli (589), Trikorfo (557), Malamata (500), Marathias (492), Monastiraki (442), Klima (418), Sergoula (368), Filothei (342), Kampos (322), Potidaneia (309), Teichio (235), Drosato (232), Palaioxari (195), and Pyrgos (20).

Monasteries

The area is also known for several important monasteries such as:

The monastery of Panagia of Varnakova. It is a Byzantine monastery, built in 1077 A.D. by Saint Arsenios. Varnakova was a centre of Orthodoxy and Greek culture, in the years during which the Latins influenced Western Greece and mainly during the Frankish rule when there were plans for converting Greek people into Catholics under the Pope of Rome. During the war of 1821 it was the center of supply for the freedom fighters of Roumeli. Today the sacred monastery of Panagia of Varnakova, found in the engulf of a great forest is a place of spiritual peace.

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