Drawing inspiration from Epirote social folklorist Vasilis Nitsiakos’s book “Konitsa and Its Villages” and the melodies of Epirus’s musical tradition, we journey to one of the most significant and beautiful mountainous corners of Greece.
The Mastorochoria (Craftsmen Villages) are twenty-seven (27) settlements in the northeastern part of the Ioannina regional unit, northeast of Konitsa. These clusters of mainly mountain villages form traditional and historic regions, united by their long-standing engagement with the art of building.
Vasilis Nitsiakos was born in Aetomilitsa, Ioannina, in 1958. He studied philology, folklore, and social anthropology at the Universities of Ioannina, Leeds, and Cambridge, with scholarships from the State Scholarships Foundation, the Academy of Athens, and King’s College, Cambridge. In 1985 he was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Since 1989 he has been teaching at the University of Ioannina, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Social Folklore.
Produced and presented by Fuli Zavitsanou