There are several sights and monuments near the city of Nafpaktos.

In a steep and hard area at 15 km distance from Nafpaktos to the northeast, there is the monastery of the Prophet Saint John, known as Vomvoku to the inhabitants of the area, which is decorated with interesting bas-relief works and frescoes. Westwards, in the eastern part of Arakinthos, just among the water, the plane trees and overgrown vegetation, there are the ruins of a Byzantine triclinium-style church called the Virgin’s Trimitu. It is at the settlement Paradisi after an hour’s walk uphill, in the middle of a fascinating forest.

The road to Thermo passes through small villages, the ones of Velvini, Turko-Aga and then Vlahomandra, which used to be an old settlement of Turkish stock-raisers totally rebuilt later by Epirote artisans who also rebuilt the Saint Nicolas’ church (1927).

From Nafpaktos we leave the motorway Nafpaktos – Galaxidi to enter the rising but astonishing country road to Lidoriki. At the upper part the road passes near the monastery of Varnakova. Here we can view the valley of the river Mornos that has become dry for most of the year since its upper flow was diverted to Athens. After the Reres bridge, a branch brings us to the village Limnitsa.

Above the village several earth roads bring us right in the middle of the ancient Aitolian country: from here we could get to the villages of Vardusia, Artotina and Grameni Oxia (belonging to Aitolia nowadays) and further on to Gardiki Omileon, on the slopes of Mount Oxia at 1,130 m above sea level. The Ofions, an Aitolic race, inhabited the area in the ancient years. There have been discovered many traces of their settlement and their activities. The residents of Gardiki keep contact and trade with Sperhiada city.

Still within the limits of the prefecture, the road continues to ascend after Elatu and past Terpsithea to Ano Chora, a large village of this isolated mountainous region, nowadays a tourist attraction disposing of a well-equipped hotel. Ano Chora, called Lobotina in the past, has been an important village since the 15^th century AD, renowned for its wealthy economy, which was based of stock raising and timber felling. The precious timber was taken by the large community walnut woods, with over 500 years old trees. Indeed there was in the village a wood factory driven by electricity since the middle of the 15^th century. Stock raising was a wealthy business in the surrounding slopes.

Two great personalities of the War of Independence, G. Logothetis Kannavos and the General P. Sotiropoulos, came from Ano Chora. The village Aspria is near Ano Chora. Until 1821 AD the inhabitants of Aspria grew mulberry trees and dealt with sericulture. Ancient stone-carved inscriptions and pieces of pots have been found here. From Ano Chora the road drops to the tributaries of Evinos and then climbs towards Abelakiotisa. The homonymous monastery, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin, is well known for its icon of the Virgin, its sacred relics, the inlaid with gold tombstone and its famous festival on the 15^th of August. Still in the same village there is the restored temple of Saint Nicolas of Abelakiotisa with its impressive wood-carved icon-screen.

Fascinating though fairly rough roads join Abelakiotisa, past Eleftheriani and Homori, to Platanos, the major centre of mountainous Nafpaktia. You can also get here directly from Nafpaktos, via the asphalt, which is rising after the exit of the Mornos valley but after Simos village it drops to the river Evinos and then climbs again to Platanos. Here there are public offices, restaurants, and guesthouses.

From Platanos the road runs smoothly to Perista, an old centre of sericulture and the starting point for great ventures throughout the Balcanic peninsula in the past in search of better living conditions. A branch of the road (not asphalt anymore) descends to Aghios Dimitris, near the diversion of the river Evinos works. Here the road is divided into two branches. One continues towards the Prefecture of Evritania, to the villages Domnista and Krikelo. The other branch leads to Diaselaki (its old name was Sempsa), a small village that was conceded to the stock raisers of Saraketsi in order to use it as pastureland. The flocks used to go past this village in their seasonal migrations. A road among the mountains links Platanos to Pokista. From Pokista we could gat to Stratona, a village where tiles have been made for centuries and further on to Dorvitsa. Another road joins Platanos to Ahladocastro, a small settlement above the river Evinos (in the past it was called Artotiva). Northwards, on the way to Domnista, there is Arahova village. ‘Arahova’ is a Slavic word meaning walnut-place. Near to the village there is an ancient fort built by the Pelasgian race people on the steep hill of Despotis Heri, while at the site Paleohori, next to the castle, there is an ancient settlement.