[...] In this guidebook we present the history and geography of this region in a synoptic fashion. Here you can learn the basic guidelines for a magical tour of the history and nature of the "land of the mountains," of which the early-19th-century French traveller Francois Pouqueville wrote "the inexhaustible combination of the ways used by Divine Providence to achieve her aim, appears here so wonderfully, that if we wanted to give Epirus the name most fitting, we would have to call it the "miniature of all landscapes, of all climates''.