A lake of a thousand faces, which preserves its natural beauty. It is equally amazing from any viewpoint. A magical aquatic kingdom, an ode to the beauty of nature. A poem of the land that will unveil the romantic in you. Its charming beauty will captivate your heart and stay there forever.
Lake Tsivlou paints each season with the best colours from the palette of the senses. It becomes golden in autumn, reflecting the colour of dry leaves, and pale in the winter, mirroring the surrounding alpine landscape (hence its nickname “small Switzerland”). It bursts with colours in the spring, with almond trees and oregano plants growing around it. In the summer it turns green, as the cicadas sing their anthem to eternal summer.
A true nature’s “child”, the lake was created in 1912 after a landslide that blocked the bed of River Krathis. The landslide completely destroyed Silivaina village, and covered Tsivlos village, which gave its name to the lake, blocking the riverbed. The water trapped in the natural basin created the lake. Although created under unpleasant circumstances, its unparalleled beauty does not allow the mind to dwell on the disaster that caused it, luring you to become a voyeur of a miracle that far exceeds destruction.
The 80m-deep lake, at an altitude of 800 metres, covers 200,000 sqm. Sometimes in the summer, when the water level drops, it gives away more clues of its disastrous past, revealing the ruins of the old village.
