It is Greece’s first National Park. A reference point for history and mythology, a paradise for mountain climbers and hikers, a natural refuge for thousands of species of plants and animals.Encased for thousands of years in the haze of myth, Olympus with its history, the varied and changing charm of its nature, gives, to all those who wish to visit it a piece of eternity...
Olympus, much-snowed-upon and covered in snow, much wind-swept and many-folded (with many gorges and many ravines), is the home of the gods, indeed their captivating home, “an ever-sure abiding place for the gods”, as Hesiod says, talking of Olympus with the familiarity of a person who knows it well...
Kostas Ouranis, Poet - Journeys in Greece