Ancient Pharsalos, also known as the city Phthia mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, which sent 50 ships to the Trojan War led by Achilles and his Myrmidons. The city was built in a strategic region, being able to control the roads leading from Northern to Southern Greece. It is said that the daughter of Nereus and wife of Peleus, Thetis, bathed in the waters of its rivers, Enipeus and Apidanus, while its presence over the centuries left a clear mark from the Neolithic period until Roman times.