Palia (Old) Farsa is a wonderful abandoned village just above today’s Farsa, a village 9km from Argostoli. The village first appeared with this name in the census of 1678 and together with eight other villages it was the Potamianata district. Its first inhabitants seem to have been refugees from the southern Peloponnese and Crete, after the conquest of these areas by the Turks.

The main occupations of the inhabitants of this semi-mountainous region were livestock breeding and beekeeping. It is noteworthy that during the British rule in the 19th century, there were about 200 houses in the village, while at the end of the 19th century, the village had about 500 inhabitants, and about then began their intensive engagement with shipping. In 1943 the village was bombed and there were captured Italian prisoners of the famous Aqui division.

The slope in which the village was built is steep, with the effect of both architectural and urbanism. The village was densely built and had a central paved road as well as several smaller ones that sometimes had stairs. It had two squares, two churches, an olive press as well as an elementary school in a building built for this purpose, while it was distinguished in seven districts, the names of which are still the most common names we meet in the new village. The houses were stone and most of them were two-storey, while the need for water was covered with wells.

The village was hit hard by the earthquakes of 1953 but it was not broken. However, the residents decided to rebuild the new village at a lower point than the provincial road connecting Argostoli to Fiskardo, which means that the use of old house materials to build the new homes would make old old houses undetectable. However, in the old village we still find many houses that can be restored.

In recent years, some remarkable suggestions have been made for the revitalization and exploitation of the Old Pheasants, but they have not been successful. Again, a tour of the village compensates the visitor who admires the coexistence of nature with human works in time, while enjoying the unlimited view across the bay of Argostoli.