“May you show me the way and open for me the sacred gates,” Aeneas says to the Sibyl at the entrance of the Underworld. Here, in Morfi, an ancient shepherd’s path, long closed, leads to the abyss of the Styx, a cave bathed by the waters that made Achilles immortal, and climbs up to the grotto of Morpheus and Nyx, the sleep and the night.
Andrea González
In August 2024, in Morfi, footsteps traced an ancient route linking the Styx Lagoon’s dark waters, believed to grant immortality, to Morfeas Cave, home of sleep and night. Vrilissos volunteers, locals, and students together revived a path—a trail winding through myth and water, between villages Morfi and Tzara, and spanning the municipalities of Parga and Igoumenitsa. This journey breathes life into a landscape and local communities where stories and local legends converge beneath the watch of age-old mountains. The path was walked in celebration on the final day of the GrrWaterlandscapes workshop with the local community. On October 27, 2024, both municipalities invited the public to walk it together, marking a moment of shared heritage and solidarity.
Special thanks to the Vrilissos team—Dimitra Mazaraki, Neilos Pitsinos, Diamantis Papadopoulos, and Giorgos Stragalis—who, along with Eleni Serifi and locals Alexis Christakis and Spiros Mpaloumis, dedicated their hard work to this project. Thanks also to both municipalities for welcoming this effort: Giorgos Christakis, Panagiotis Ntais, Ilias Pappas, and Nikos Zacharias, as well as the communities of Tzara and Morfati.
Filming Documentation: Jacobo Cayetano
