Meroi never fails to impress visitors with its beauty. Many of them, both Greek and foreign, have given us vivid descriptions of its great charm:

“The rock of Lycomedes, is an awesome and romantic sight. On it stands a monastery, inhabited by monks from Mount Athos, and the town itself, which clings amphitheatrically on its sides. Olympos, with its ancient cave of Zeus, gives one the same impression. Extensive pine woods extend eastwards from the coast, climbing upwards on a steep rise. Beautiful valleys, filled with orchards and cypress trees, and interspersed with singing brooks overhang by red oleanders and covered with vine plants, meander across this smiling, fertile plateau.

The sandy strip of coast stretches for several kilometres northwards and eastwards. A languid sea, the colour of purest blue laps gently against the white sands. Here and there a windmill leisurely churns the air, and all around extends the blue expanse of the Aegean Sea”.