Ioulída - Agios Konstantínos - Milopótamos - Fléa - Korissía
Evaluation: This hike is the official hike no. [2] and it leads to the green valley of Milopótamos. That is the place where, in earlier times, 11 water mills made use of the water of the plentiful well of Fléa. Unfortunately, the beautiful trail between Ioulída and Korissía is for a large part destroyed as a result of the construction of the modern road. Only between the chapel of Agios Konstantínos and the valley of Milopótamos, you can walk on the ancient and broad trail. Therefore, the hike follows the asphalt road for nearly 2 km and between Milopótamos and Korissía it follows a fairly monotonous gravel road. It thus gets and evaluation of **. 

Estimated time: You have to walk on the asphalt road for some 20-25 minutes. The nice trajectory between Agios Konstantínos and Milopótamos takes 20 minutes and the detour to the first water mills will cost you about 25 minutes. Finally, it will take you half an hour to reach the small harbour of Korissía. An actual walking time of 1h40, which refers to a peaceful hike of about 3 hours in total walking time.

Route description: On the parking place of Ioulída you take the asphalt road to the harbour of Korissía; you follow this road for about 2 km or 20-25 minutes. Only in the sharp hairpin curve to the right you can see the chapel of Agios Konstantínos on your left, with next to it a well – the wooden sign indicates the actual beginning of hike no. [2]. You then follow a marvellous and broad path, which is nicely paved; it easily brings you to the valley of Milopótamos in about 20 minutes. 

The broad path from Agios Konstantínos towards Milopótamos.

One minute after the picturesque chapel with a red roof you get to the trail coming from Milopótamos. Over here, trail no. [2] makes a detour to the water mills and the well of Fléa.

The hiking sign near the bifurcation of the path in the valley of Milopótamos.

 

 You thus take a left at first; a little further you go to the right twice [2] and you follow a nice and climbing trail.

Some 9 minutes later, you notice the beginning of the large bordering stones of the kalderími and you can also hear some murmuring water. One minute later you arrive at the ruins of the first water mill. On the left-hand side of this mill you go up [2] and after two more minutes you arrive at a second, somewhat restored mill. All of these mills (there were 11 all together) made use of the water of the well of Fléa, situated upstream. The millstones were driven by a horizontally placed water wheel.

A water mill on the Milopótamos.

[By continuing on this trail you can reach the road that leads to the well of Fléa.]

The best thing to do now is to return along the same way you came, until you get to the beautiful pavement again. You then go straight ahead in the direction of the main valley and the main road. You should have a look at the nice garden of the house on the right – a kind lady even invited us for a "kafedáki"...

In this way, you reach the asphalt road, but straight across you go down the concrete slope, between the "zacharoplastío" Aristaios and the garage. Behind the garage you will then find a somewhat sloppy gravel road, which you follow to the left. But still, this trajectory is preferable to the monotonous asphalt road. You follow the gravel road for some 21 minutes – in fact, you follow the bed of the river Elixos. You then take the small concrete road on the right of the bed, which you follow for about 2 minutes. In this way, you get to the asphalt road that runs around the large bay of Korissía. You obviously take a left and after 5 minutes you thus reach the centre of the small harbour.

Korissía.

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