Edipsos

Edipsos or Aedipsos (Greek: Αιδηψός) is a village in Evvia.

Understand
80 of Greece's 752 hot springs are located in Edipsos, making it a popular tourist destination. The spas date back more than 20,000 years. The 2011 population of the village was 6,141. Many famous personalities have visited the town so far, such as Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Sir Winston Churchill, Eleutherios Venizelos, Theodoros Deligiannis, Georgios Theotokis, Ioannis Kondilakis, Archbishop of Athens Theocletus I, Aristotelis Onassis, Maria Callas, Kostis Palamas, Marika Kotopouli and others.

History
The heyday of the Edipsos area is dated to the Roman era. In late Roman times, the city had expanded north of Thermopotamou, a torrent that has been covered today by Thermopotamou street. The region experienced its great prosperity mainly in imperial times, especially in the 2nd AD century. The last period of prosperity placed in 5th and 6th century AD in the years of the emperors Theodosius and Justinian. The historian Plutarch says Edipsos was a place where people meet from all over Greece to make baths, rest, talk and have fun. The Roman general Sulla was using the baths. According to the historian Plutarch, when Sulla had health problems was coming to bath. Nowadays there are bath ruins from that era, which bear the name "Baths of Sulla." Edipsos still visited by emperors Adrianos, Markos, Aurelius Septimius, Severus, Pertinos the empress Julia Dovna. The city found pedestals of statues of Constantine the Great and the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius. At Christian era, people began to abandon the spa area which was associated with Roman manners and was a pagan custom. The population is concentrated in the hinterland, in the area of Agia Paraskevi, near the present village of Edipsos, not only to avoid the place of debauchery but also the raids of Slavs, Arabs and the pirates.

Edipsos baths started permanently inhabited from 1900 onwards. In the early 19th century, the area of Edipsos accept the refugees from Asia Minor, which will give new impetus to development in fisheries, agriculture and trade. At this time was built the first hotel in this area, "Thermae Sylla", and then other large hotels followed, like "Heraklion", "Stadios", "Istiea", "Aigli", "Avra" and other. Also private spas are created to meet the needs of bathers and other forms of business, such as luxury nightclubs with live music and famous orchestral groups.

Get in
To get to and from the mainland your best option is taking the ferry to/from Arkitsa (hourly, €3.30 per person).

There are frequent buses from Athens but they take you to the ferry pier in Arkitsa. From there you have to take the ferry. The bus ticket price will not include the ferry ticket, even if bought to Loutra Edipsos.

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