Municipality of North Tzoumerka
The North Tzoumerko Municipality is one of the eight municipalities of the Ioannina Regional Unit of the Epirus Region. It was established with the implementation of the “Kallicratis” program in 2011 from the amalgamation of the pre-existing municipalities of Katsanohoria, Pramanto and Tzoumerko, and the communities of Bathypedou, Matsouki, Kalarrito and Syracos. The seat of […]
Mountaineering Club
The Mountaineering Club of Syracuse “I PRIZA” was founded in 2015 by Syracuse residents and friends of Syrrakos with the main objectives of systematically cultivating mountaineering, getting to know and highlighting the area’s mountainous mass. Contact: Tel.: Ilias Papoutsis 6947819277, Ioannou Vangelis 6947078796 Fb: Sirrakos Mountaineering Club e-mail:oros_priza@yahoo.gr […]
A.O. stavraetos
“Stavraetos” Sports Club of Syrrako The Syracuse team was founded in 1977. On 2/15/1977, the founding minutes of Stavraetos Syrakos with a temporary Board of Directors were drawn up and filed at the first instance court of Ioannina. The group’s charter was finally approved on April 2, 1977, was published on April 5 of the […]
Conference Center
Sirrako has a Conference Center with a capacity of 100 people, with modern technological audio and video equipment. The layout of the space is organized in such a way as to provide multiple positioning and organization possibilities for holding medical conferences, business conferences, seminars and workshops, social events and any other cultural event. The Conference […]
Associations of Syracuse
Association of Syrrako of Ioannina The Association of Syracuses of Ioannina was founded in 1969 by Syracuses who lived and created in the city of Ioannina. It was born of their need for coexistence, contact and support of their historic village by saving its architectural heritage, morals and customs, linguistic idioms as well as the […]
Sirrakos Publications
Prominent Syracuses
Many eminent men and women were born or descended from Syracuse. Evgenios Zalokostas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece in the government of Spyridon Lambrou in the years 1916-1977. Dimitrios Bitsios, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Kon/nou Karamanlis government in the period 1974-1977 A multitude of great benefactors among whom Christoforos Rizos, Apostolos Rizos […]
Architecture
Sirrako is built on the edge of a steep ravine and is an example of traditional architecture. In an extraordinary way, the local craftsmen, expressing the social needs and aesthetic perceptions of the local community, harmonized the residence with the natural environment as well as the economic, social and cultural data of the place and […]
History
Sirrako is a historical noble village of Epirus. It is located 52 km. southeast of Ioannina, on Mount Peristeri, at an altitude of 1200m. We do not know exactly when the village was built. It is most likely that the first settlement was created in the 15th century. Around 1480, Syracos, together with the rest […]
Nominal Origin
Much has been written about the origin of the name “Syrrako”. Some said that the name came from the many waters that flowed through the village. Others that it comes from Syracuse, a city in Italy and others from the first leader of the inhabitants, Syros. The P. Aravantinos writes that he got the name […]
