Callisto, the «most beautiful»
The opportunity arose when an elderly couple from the village, emigrants to Canada, wanted to sell their house, but preferred not to give it to "foreign hands". This house, a stone building from the last century, was bought and after being completely renovated, with absolute respect for the traditional architecture of the place, it became the middle of the three buildings of the guesthouse. Two more new buildings, built in the same way, flanked the original one and the dream came true.
And then through the Arcadian forest came the Nymph Callisto and with a kiss imprinted her name on the newborn guesthouse. Callisto, the "most beautiful", as her name indicates, the daughter of the king of Arcadia Lycaon and companion of the goddess Artemis. Callisto, who was loved by Zeus and gave birth to his son Arcada, the great hero of Arcadia. But Artemis, who was angry with Callisto for breaking her vow of virginity, transformed her into a bear. And little Arcada was raised by a mountain goddess, Maia. When Arcadas grew up, one day he accidentally went hunting to kill his mother, but Zeus, in order to prevent matricide, transformed him into a bear who immediately recognized who was standing in front of him. And then he took the mother and the son, beloved, to the sky and made them constellations the Ursa Major and the Ursa Minor. And if the visitors of "Kallisto Kastanittsa", raise their eyes to the sky, will find her there, but also, if they listen carefully, in the silence, they could hear between the trees the rustling of the veil, that of beautiful Nymph of Arcadia.
