Lake Plastiras Dam

It is to this concrete structure with the "elegant" arch that the creation of the lake is owed, which occupies approximately 25,000 acres that can collect 365 million cubic meters of water, and at their maximum capacity, 400 million cubic meters. The irrigation of the Karditsa plain and the water supply of the city and about 35 other communities depend to a large extent on this dam. The waters that pass through the dam fall from a height of 77 meters onto the turbines that provide energy to the 129 MV hydroelectric plant.

The construction was envisioned in 1925 by General and political leader Nikolaos Plastiras, the "Black Horseman," who was born in the nearby Morfovouni (old name "Vounesi") in 1883. It was completed in 1959, six years after the death of its "inspirer" and after various studies had taken place in 1928, 1932, 1952, and finally in 1955.

But all these, the sufficiently useful and practical, pale in comparison to the beauty it created. This beauty cannot be measured with human measures and weights.