MUNICIPAL APARTMENTS

The Municipality of Zitsa is composed from the municipal apartments of Zitsas, Prwtopapa, Karitsa, Lithino and Dafnofyto and  includes also the settlements Sakellariko and Melissi.   According to the  2001 inventory the municipality has 2200 residents.   The Capital of municipality abstains 25 kilometres from the Ioannina.   The main occupation of the residents is the livestock-farming the viticulture while a small percentage is occupied in the excavation of marbles.   Enough however from them reside in the municipality and or work in public services or they are occupied in the private initiative.   The Municipality has seat of Police Department, Notary's office, anneces of County court, GREEK POST, GREEK TELECOME, while function two kindergartens, two municipal schools, a high school and secondary school orders.   It allocates Municipal Art gallery in which they are entertained a line from known work that gave in his birthplace the known painter Kostas Malamas, and a cultural centre.   Monuments   From the more important monuments of municipality are  the monasteries of Prophet Elias, (1598) in the homonym hill of Zitsa, the Abbey of Fathers of Lithino (1590) and Saint Nikolaos' church in Karitsa (1591).   The first two was, in the past, very richly with huge fortune in  Vlachia and Russia. Today only the first is functional while the Abbey of Fathers will be soon renovated after the approval of financing with 250.000 Euros.   In the abbey of Prophet Eliasin the early 1800's was entertained the known Lord Byron who, during his eve, wrote an important part of his poem "Adoration of Tsaild Harold".   Another important and famous natural monument is Theogefyro in the river Kalamas. A natural stone bridge which until a few decades ago constituted the passage between the villages across Kalamas.