Fossil Exhibition of Nostimo

Nostimo is a village in Western Macedonia 25 km from Kastoria and 14 km from Argos Orestiko. For the past three years, finds from the Petrified Forest have been displayed in the village.
More specifically, the playground of the junior school has been converted into a park of petrified tree trunks, while a relatively spacious room inside the school has a display of marine and animal fossils. The tree trunks, 5–10 m long and 40–80 cm in diameter, come from the Nostimo Petrified Forest, which consists chiefly in tropical and subtropical plants. The forest grew in deltaic alluvial deposits of the prehistoric Sea of Tethys, which washed the wider area of Kastoria. The fossilised trees are approximately 15,000,000–20,000,000 years old and in excellent condition. Most of them are palms.