Hope springs eternal...!

Greece is blessed with many natural springs and most all cities and towns you will find a village square with a public water spring as well as a shade tree. These squares are great places to sit down and watch the locals go about their day-to-day activities. You can often find these springs along roadsides as well. This is truly a land of abundance, everywhere you can see trees hanging heavy with fruit, goats, cows and sheep sprinkled across mountainsides. It seems it would be difficult to starve or die of thirst in this blessed nation. It's a wonderful treat to pull over the car on a hot day and drink fresh cold clean water from these springs.

Since i am so short, i often take a quick cold shower if no one is watching. Many of these springs have beautiful stone fountains with a variety of spouts and taps from which the water freely runs. Some of these fountains have been around for many centuries, in fact most springs have been in continuous use since prehistoric times. Villages were built around productive springs that continually gave good clean water. If a spring ran dry the village would be forced to relocate. Although a few famous waters are now reduced to merely being the source for commercial bottling plants, the majority of springs are still available for the enjoyment of Greeks and tourists alike.

Early Greeks believed many of the springs to be inhabited by nymphs, naiads, muses and other mythological creatures. Some springs were considered sacred or had healing qualities and people made pilgrimages from great distances to visit these sites. Greeks and visitors alike can "take the waters" at the same springs used by philosophers, warriors, conquerors and kings, as well as all those seeking health at these altars of Asclepius or Hygeia. Most important shrines and temples were located near these sacred waters.

Spring in Aetorahi.

Spring in Azoros.

Spring in Azoros.

Spring in Elati.

Spring in Litochoro.

Spring in Pythio.

Spring in Pythio.

Spring in Servia.

Spring in Tsaritsani.

Spring in Tsaritsani.

Spring in Tsaritsani.

Spring in Tsaritsani's park.

Spring in Tsaritsani's park.