Taxiarches Waterfall

   It is undoubtedly the most imposing wonder of Anovlasit nature and a little-known secret.

 

   Unfortunately there are no signs, so you will have to be shown the short dirt road south of the village that will lead you to a spring and an iconostasis. Behind the spring there is a mysterious and dark cave (those who have done a cursory exploration inside speak of awesome icons and underground lakes!) and after parking you will descend the steep slope with the plane trees, treading carefully on a thick carpet of plane leaves, to the riverbed.

 

   There you will see the source of the roar that sounds eerie even up the road: waters from various directions merge above a cave pierced in the roof, fall with force into a dark lake and continue to join Selinunte. The image is extremely evocative with the fine mist from the spray of the waterfalls moistening the atmosphere, the light playing with the drops piercing the roof of the cave and the waters claiming sovereignty of the place from the stone. The image is breathtaking, and perhaps that is why the fairies (who would certainly live here) took the innocent villagers' speech.

 

   Undoubtedly, Callisto and all the nymphs of Artemis would have passed through here and bathed naked in the shady coolness. Pan would have passed through here with his orgy-like entourage, drunk on the region's awesome wines, and this was certainly once the habitat of the air creatures and creatures of the innocent imagination of the people of Anovlas.