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Studio Merses is located in the Old Small Village of Evrytanias, a few kilometers away from the capital of the prefecture, Karpenisi.
A written source that testifies the existence of Palio Mikro Horio is reduced in 1453-54 and emanates from a Turkish tax list, the village after this date sent immigrants to Istanbul. Its first residents were builders of Stone.
The contribution of Mikro Horio to the revolution of 1821 as well as in the Resistance existed decisive and the attendance of its residents catholic.
The village is built at the altitude of over 900 meters in a verdant mountainous area.
Each visitor admires the small lake that is located at the entry of village, the five graphic taps under the plane of the square, the temple of Metamorphosis with the belfry that was built in the 19th century.
Characteristically the belfrys clock, instead of numbers that show the hours, it has the letters of the name of the daughter of a donor from Istanbul, Helen Sideri. Next to the churchs belfry stands the old school, which today is a museum with rich material from the Possession, the Resistance, newspapers of the landslide in 1963, the monument of 13 hostages, that were executed by the Italians as a reprisal for theirs that was lost in ambush of [ELAS], an ambush that has been considered as the first in a European level action of resistance against Fascism, and the tap where Markos Botsaris died after his last battle in Kefalovryso.
Through the path that begins from the small church Agios Sostis admirers of nature can reach the wooded tops of Chelidona, while walkers can through forest pathways reach the neighboring villages. Studio Merses was inaugurated in 2002 and was extended and renovated in 2008. It has been manufactured in the most modern way, satisfying each wish and need of its modern visitor, maintaining however the traditional architecture of the region, that is based on the combination of stone and wood. Its internal space, reception, restaurant and cafe are decorated with authentic paintings of its artist Tsiligianni. Its name was inspired from the region that it is built in. Merses: derives from a Turkish word that means '' wet landscape''. Its situation constitutes the main key of it success, after all it is located at the point where Nature ''met'' three mountains: Veloychi, Kaliakoyda and Chelidona.
From its garden, containing a variety of roses, everyone can admire the magical view of Potamias valley, that Karpenisiotis river creates, which flows from the Ridge of Tymfristoy, at the borderline of Evrytanias with Fthiotida, and blends into Dipotama of Proysos with Krikelioti river, leading both rivers to the lake of Kremaston. The senses of the guest are in a state of harmonious collaboration, as he enjoys the vastness of the sky when it blends in with the tall tops of the mountains and the song of the nightingales, breathing in the fresh smells of mountainous ground.
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