On Monday, 29 December 2025, the program “Wander Words” with Katerina Batzaki unfolded Kastoria on the airwaves of Voice of Greece — not as a postcard destination, but as a place of memory, layered time, and human stories.
A city built on water and stone, which withstood empires, losses, and transformations — and continues to remember.
Andromachi Skreka, Head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kastoria, spoke about the Byzantine and post-Byzantine heritage as a living present.
Romylos Mantzouras, historian and guide, narrated the city as one would describe a living organism that breathes.
Lake, churches, mansions, memory, fur, vanished communities, and stories that endure.
Because some journeys are not measured in kilometers, but in understanding.