Edessa waterfalls
— a river that walks off the edge of the town.
Not only on a wall.
Edessa waterfalls, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The Edessaios river runs through the town and then steps off a basalt shelf into the gorge below. Karanos, the larger of the two main falls, drops about 70 metres into a green pool inside a small cave. Footpaths wind down through plane trees to the base, where the spray reaches the railing. From the upper park the plain of Pella opens north, all the way to the sea on a clear day.
The place, in three passes.
Edessa stands on the edge of a high terrace in the regional unit of Pella, Central Macedonia, about 90 kilometres west of Thessaloniki. The Edessaios river crosses the town and then drops off a basalt shelf into a wooded gorge, forming the only natural waterfalls of any significant town centre in Greece. The two main falls are called Karanos, after the legendary founder of the Macedonian kingdom, and Lamda. The terrace stands at roughly 320 metres above sea level, with the Pellaic plain opening out to the north below the cliff.
The Edessaios is fed from springs and snowmelt in the Voras and Vermio mountains to the north and west, and divides into several branches as it crosses Edessa. The current waterfall system formed after a major earthquake in the 14th century shifted the riverbed and undercut the terrace edge. Karanos drops about 70 metres into a green plunge pool inside a small cave at the base; Lamda falls a shorter distance alongside. Flow is strongest in spring as the high country drains, and the spray reaches the lower platform from March into early summer.
The waterfall park is open and free at all hours. A paved path leads from the upper viewpoint down through plane trees to the cave behind Karanos, a descent of roughly five minutes; the climb back up is steeper than it looks. The old town of Varosi sits just east of the park, with stone-and-timber Macedonian houses worth the short walk. Edessa is about an hour by car from Thessaloniki on the EO2, or roughly two hours by Hellenic Train from the Thessaloniki station. Winter visits are quietest; summer weekends draw families from the city.
