Lake Kastoria

Lake Kastoria is a lake inside the Kastoria local unit of Macedonia, northwestern Greece. Sitting at an altitude of 630 metres, the lake covers a place of 28 square kilometres. Nine rivulets circulate the lake, and it drains into the Haliacmon river. Historical lifestyle says that sheep that drank water from Haliakmon could turn their shade to white. This culture is showed by way of the following record of the Roman creator Pliny the Elde Its depth varies from nine to 10 metres. The Orestida become shaped approximately 10 million years ago.

The Kastoria Peninsula with the metropolis of Kastoria divides the lake into two parts, the larger to the north and the smaller to the south. The lake takes its call from the Oreiades. Lakeside sights consist of, apart from the Byzantine architectural historical past of the city, an eleventh-century Byzantine monastery of Panagia Mavriotissa and the reconstructed prehistoric settlement of Dispilio, wherein the Dispilio Tablet became retrieved from the lake in 1992.