Kanalia is a village in Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....

, Greece

Greece

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, part of the municipality Rigas Feraios

Rigas Feraios (municipality)

Rigas Feraios is a municipality in the Magnesia peripheral unit, Thessaly, Greece. The seat of the municipality is the town Velestino. The municipality was named after the Greek writer and revolutionary Rigas Feraios, whose hometown Velestino is....

. It is located 26 kilometres (16.2 mi) from Volos

Volos

Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...

 and at a height of 80 metres (262.5 ft) above the sea level. It is one of the prettiest on the north-west side of Pelion

Pelion

Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea...

. It is built on the foundation of the Acropolis Voivis in the plains of Metochi. On the hill above the village one can see the remains of the walls of ancient Voivis, the Homeric Boebe , as well as the ruins of three forts that protected the road. Kanalia, Kapourna and Kerasia make up the first municipality of Voivis in Volos. The church of Saint Nicolas

Saint Nicolas

Saint-Nicolas may refer to the following places:-In Belgium:*Saint-Nicolas, Belgium, in the Province of Liège*The French name for Sint-Niklaas, in Province of East Flanders-In France:*Saint-Nicolas, Pas-de-Calais...

 (11th century), can be found in the area. Visitors to the area enjoy the plethora of almond

Almond

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 trees when they are in blossom, they can even attend the celebration of the Blossoming Almond trees.

There is a lake

Lake

A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

 in the area named Lake Karla

Lake Karla

Lake Karla is a former lake that sits at 60 to 80 m above sea level making it the only one in the plain of Thessaly. The lake is located at the northern end of the prefecture of Magnesia in the Pineios basin, adjacent to Pelion and Maurovouni mountains...

 by the previous name of Kanalia village which was drained between 1960 and 2000. Since 2001 the Greek Government has attempted to reconstruct the lake to its previous size, through the financial aid of European Union

European Union

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 and Natura 2000

Natura 2000

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