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He arrives at Fragokastelo and meets the prince. Manolios offers him the best hospitality (local traditional food etc) and they visit the castle, where the myth says that once a year knights appear in the sky at dawn and give a big fight. People can see them and hear the screams of war. Prince Manousos finds out that his sister, the little princess, was not there, so he returns home, disappointed and deeply sad… 9th Primary school of Larissa(Greece-Thessaly) Rigas₁ , the other son of the king smounted his horse and off he went. He reached a vast plain with a river crossing it. - At the east there was the highest mountain he had ever seen. It was July and the weather was hot. He met a shepherd. ―Where are we?,he asked. ―In Genir Sehir Feneri (the name of Larissa during the Ottoman empire)‖, he answered. ―And which is that mountain over there? I have never seen something like this before.‖ ―Olympus, the mountain of the gods. And that river is Salavrias (Peneos)‖, said the shepherd and went on his way.