Our village, Ano Chora, is the capital of Municipality Apodotia, with population 404 residents. It is 42 kilometers from Nafpaktos on an altitude of 1030 meters (from the tallest point up to lowest there is a hypsometric difference of 200 meters).

The Great Lompotina, as it was named during the Ottoman domination, is built amphitheatrically in one of the south-western mountainsides of Bardoysion, Syrta and with a northern - north-eastern view. Surrounded from the mountains of Bardoysion, it is very well protected from the wind and as the old people say, the village is located in a "loympa" (hole)! That’s why the name Lompotina.

Right and left of the village and almost at the same altitude of 1.050 m. we found the hills Lakoyla and Saint George. The hill Lakoyla is verdant with firs and chestnut trees and we can find the Medical centre, the Town hall as well as a church dedicated in Saint Athanassios. The hill of Saint George is found on the entrance of the village when we come from Nafpaktos, it is covered from firs and cedars and it is the place where our hotel is built. At the end of the hill we also found the homonym church. In the middle of the village we find the main church dedicated to Saint Paraskevi, the public square, the market with coffee shops, and an antique bus that used to connect Nafpaktos - Ano Chora in the old times and we used to call it Karnavalo (Karnaval).

The old houses of the village are built from slate at their majority they present a particular architectural interest with a lot of influences from the architecture of Eipiros (northern - western Greece). One can notice that all the traditional houses have a four sided tile roof. They were creating utterance from all four sides of the house (not only two as it is used). Thus they were able to get rid of the snow easier with a small utterance. With the wooden tick stick called synazi that is obvious on the sides of the houses, they accomplished to share the weight of the house uniformly, while the corner stones helped in its better support.

Mountainous Nafpaktia thanks to her inaccessible surface became a shelter for many residents during difficult eras of Greece. In order to avoid the conquerors, the Greeks used to migrate from the big cities to the villages that were inaccessible for the Turks, the German and the Italians. Until the Second World War, the agriculture and the livestock-farming flourished but the village had a population of a few thousand, and people where starving during the wars. With the end of the war, the government decided to give a free ticket by boat to America at those who had been affected by the rebels. Thus a migratory wave begun and in combination with the current of urbanism, the population of entire Mountainous Nafpaktia shrank in such a level, that one could say that if it wasn't for the intense tourist interest during the last decade, today we would be talking for a dead region.

All those hundreds zagades (agriculture leveled areas on the side of a mountain) that were maintained from the residents were abandoned and nature penetrated everywhere. The firs and the chestnuts covered everything and while new trees were growing every year, they all tied up with each other and closed the all passages. All the paths that used to link the villages were vanished from the map.

18 years ago, we opened the hotel Crystal Mountain, trying to we give a breath of fresh air to our almost empty village. With the precious support of municipality we accomplished to create Ano Chora and the wider region to another mountain destination of Greece, Mountainous Nafpaktia. With the tourist interest that we created, a lot of people returned in the past few year, renovating their houses and opening cafes and taverns.