Milies

Milies () is a village and a former municipality in Magnesia, Thessaly, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality South Pelion, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 63.754 km2. It is a traditional Greek mountain village, at a height of 400 m on Mount Pelion. It is 28 km from Volos, the capital city of Magnesia. Milies is connected with the GR-34A (Volos - Promyri) It has traditional stone houses, cobbled roads, good restaurants and accommodation in abundance. Milies is also notable for being the terminus of the narrow gauge (60 cm) Pelion Railway, built between 1895 and 1903 by the Italian engineer, Evaristo de Chirico, father of the famous artist Giorgio de Chirico. This proved to be of considerable economic advantage to the region. The recently railway runs between Ano Lechonia and Milies twice a week at the weekend. The village commands striking views across the Pagasetic Gulf and benefits from the many streams and water sources for which Mt. Pelion is renowned. These result in rich vegetation and cool, forested mountain slopes.

==Subdivisions== The municipal unit Milies is subdivided into the following communities (constituent villages in brackets): thumb|Traditional building of Milies. thumb|2-4-0 Tubize steam engine in the Miles (greece) railway station|train station of Milies. thumb|Memorial for people executed by German occupation troops in 1943 Agios Georgios Nileias (Agios Georgios Nileias, Agia Triada, Ano Gatzea, Dyo Revmata, Kato Gatzea) Kala Nera Milies (Milies, Koropi, Stavrodromi) Pinakates (Pinakates, Agios Athanasios) Vyzitsa (Vyzitsa, Argyreika)