This research starts with a tour to all the special poleodomical, morphological, architectural and constructional elements which have formed, during the past years, the picture of a Pelion’s mountainous settlement. It includes a record and analysis of these elements and of their evolutionary course, up to the end of 19th century. Their presentation takes place through a specific area which is located in the mountainous settlement of Makrinitsa. This area is, in fact, a route that joins two squares and, by extension, two neighbourhoods in Makrinitsa: the one is the neighbourhood of Ag. Ioanni and the other of Ag. Triada. Yet, it is reasonable that the study couldn’t be restricted to that area, sundering it from the rest Pelion.

  Subsequently, the research is transferred in the present, with extensions of tomorrow. For this study, the remarks, the thoughts and the questionings, go further away from the limits of the studying area and Makrinitsa. We are mainly examining issues such as: how the old constructions differentiate from the new ones, what logic is now being adopted for the construction of the new buildings, which are the consequences of the present interventions on the picture of the Pelion’s settlements and of its natural environment e.t.c. At this point, we will find that the Specific Building Terms play an important role, with regulations that many times lead to negative results spoiling the physiognomy of Pelion and its settlements. Furthermore, under the burden of the ‘tradition’ that the Pelion’s settlements carry, we would say that what has being constructed for them is the impression of an idyllic past with analogous building terms and restrictions.

  The sterile reproduction of past forms could lead to results that eventually degenerate the ‘tradition’ which they claim that they imitate. It is needless to say that this criticism does not pertain to the denial of past forms as an inspiration basis. The adoption of the past, when it is properly understood, can give an analogous synthesis and not necessarily an effigy. The main negative trait of the new-traditional architecture that arises usually due to the lack of deeper understanding of historical typology is its restriction to a superficial decoration of the construction. The ‘new’ is not supposed to copy or reject the ‘old’ one. The relation between the past and the present must be expressed through position, contraposition and eventually composition.

  Essentially, the whole inquiring project goes round these matters – and not only – examining others too that remain in a level of simple observations, for a more circumstantial approach to the issue of a diachronic course of a Pelion’s settlement.