On the terraced northern slopes of Oite, by the end of the 5th Cent. B.C., the Ainians had built Ypati, the capital and base of their tribal state and people since the 4th Cen. B.C., and of the Aitolic Confederacy later in the 2nd Cen. B.C. This prosperous and wealthy Hellenistic city, which became rather densely-populated later on, socially thrived during the early Christian and Byzantine times when it was renamed Nea Patrai, or Neopatra in the post Byzantine years. It served as a second capital of Greece, after Athens, and as the capital of the Ducate of Athens and Nea Patrai during the Catalan period. By the waterfalls, the castle loopholes and through its mosaics you can hear the fairytale of the wind whispering stories about a city of unsurpassed beauty, bewitched by the trail of fairies, who, while embracing the nature and the stars, also sowed healing or disaster.