22.10.2015
Старинный укреплённый поселок Осдина, расположенный в номеThesprotia (Epirus), opened on October 20 to the general public after long restoration. It is called the Archaeological Park. Byzantine and post-Byzantine settlement Osdina.
The abandoned fortress city of Ozdina, built on a hill above river, has been restored recently. He survived a lot and keeps architectural treasures from different periods of Greek history. Village consists of narrow cobbled streets. Houses on the hill are built from stone, and the fortress wall at one time defended Osdina from all parties. It is believed that before there were 10 churches inside the citadel. Today, visitors can visit 8 of them and look at the museum.
The name of the settlement comes from the Old Slavic “ozdbna”, which means “ovens for drying cereals”. Osdina flourished in post-Byzantine period and mainly in the early years of the Ottoman dominion. And then was abandoned by residents after Turkish attempts invaders to convert the population to Islam. For a long time Osdin remained abandoned. In 2010, its reconstruction began, which ended a month ago. And now Osdina took a seat in a string of valuable architectural monuments of Greece.
