Όρε όμορφη που ‘ναι η Λιβαδειά που κείτεται στο ρέμα, αχ πάν τα κορίτσια μάνα μ’ για νερό κι έρχονται φιλημένα.
— Δημοτικό
Η Λιβαδειά, η γνωστή, αυτή των 40 παλληκαριών, είναι μία από τις αγαπημένες μου πόλεις και ένα από τα λίγα μέρη στην Ελλάδα που θα μπορούσα να μείνω για πάντα!
Livadeia is one of my favorite Greek cities and one of the few places that I would be happy to live in. It is the capital of Boeotia, run by the small Herkyna river (very Feng Shui if you ask me), which is named after a nymph, at the springs of which there are shallow grottoes with niches and marble remnants believed to be the site of the Trophonious Oracle temple, it’s way green (that’s the Athenian citizen in me judging), and it has good food. Cue Coldplay—pa-raaa-pa-raaa-pa-ra-di-se.
You can read more about Livadeia here or visit the municipality’s page here.
![In an 1875 St. Nicholas Magazine* cumulative tale, an old woman bakes a gingerbread man, who leaps from her oven and runs away. The woman and her husband give chase but are unable to catch him. The gingerbread man then outruns several farm characters in repetitious scenes featuring an ever-growing cast for the tale's effect. Each time he escapes, he chants a list of those he has steered clear of and bets he can avoid the next character too: “I've run away from a little old man, a little old man and the old lady, and I can run away from you—I can!”
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It all ends with a fox catching and eating the gingerbread man, who cries as he is devoured: “I'm quarter gone! I'm half gone! I'm three-quarters gone! I'm all gone!” 🦊🍪 #homemade #gingerbreadspice #gingerbreadman #gingerbreadhouse #gingerbreadcookies #gingerbreadlady
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*️⃣ St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular monthly American children's magazine founded by Scribner in 1873. Its first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge, who continued her association with the magazine until she died in 1905. Dodge published work by the country's leading writers, including Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Laura E. Richards, and Joel Chandler Harris. 📚 [All info from Wikipedia]
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Beautiful city as I see through your photos. Do you live in this city too?
Redards,
No, I don’t… it’s one of my favorite in Greece though and I sure wish I did! 🙂
I would like to live there too. It’s a very beautiful place indeed 🙂
I have never been but it looks beautiful.
It is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful cities in Greece!…
What a beautiful place! Love all your photos 🙂
Thanks! It’s nice to be able to “take you there” through a lens, even with my clumsy amateur skills!