It is located in the north-east of Arta prefecture, built at a height of 900 meters in the slope of Tzoumerka Mountains.

After the fall of Souli to Ali Pasha in 1803 many Souliotes fled to Seltsou Monastery and fought with the Turks.

[2][3] The last years of Ottoman rule the area of the village was a fief of a Turk, named Abram Karakehaya.

After the annexation of Arta to Greece in 1881, the residents of Vourgareli bought the fief, paying 4.416 Ottoman liras.

A local rich landholder, named Karapanos, helped to gather the money, in exchange for the exploitation of this area for 40 years.