Arbounas is a small, beautiful, mountainous village in the province of Kalavrita, in the prefecture of Achaia. It is located in the east of the prefecture at an altitude of about 920m. It is built amphitheatrically on the slopes of the mountain "Gamila" and the hill "Rachi", both of which together form a kind of corner and the houses belong to about half of each of them and are both promontories of one of the branches of the great mountain range of the Aronian Mountains.
The village is renowned for its healthy climate and is surrounded by a lush green fir forest, which makes a stay there very pleasant. It has beautiful and enchanting locations, which offer the visitor peace, tranquility and relief. The snow that falls during the winter months is not retained for many days.
In the communal area of the village, the remains of two castles are still preserved today. They were used during the Ottoman occupation to protect the village from the raids of the Turks and it is said that they never set foot on Arbouna from the protection of the two castles. Two more buildings are also preserved on the Aronian plain and near the village's water mill: The "Bridge of Abibaga" on the Arroan River, built during the Turkish occupation by a Turkish agha named Abibagas or Bibagas, whose name it bears. The historicity of this bridge is due to the fact that it was the only crossing of the Aroanios River for those going from Kalavrita to Tripoli, where the central Peloponnesian administration of the Turks was located, and then the road passed through Froxilia. At this bridge repeatedly the captain from the village of Arbouna - Petroutsos with other lads had repeatedly arrested named and unnamed Turks who were going to Tripoli with serious missions, and then they were sent to the chief captain Zaimi for further action. It is said that even the Old Man of Moria Kolokotronis himself, together with Captain Petroitsos, had taken such actions. Also, in this forgotten place, the father of Theodoros Kolokotronis killed six Turcalians in an ambush. This ambush is considered to be the first revolutionary action and dates back to mid-1776. Near it, the "Tower" a semi-detached house, with battlements - which served to house the Turkish soldiers who guarded the bridge of Abibaga and the whole site there "Kleisura".
The ancestors of the Arbuna people as well as the present ones took part in all the struggles of the nation: The 1821 revolution, the Macedonian struggle, the Balkan wars, the Asia Minor campaign, the Albanian war, but also the national resistance and the subsequent civil war.
The village of Arbouna includes the settlement of 'Kalamaki' or 'Arbounaiika Kalyvia', which consists of about 35 small houses, which served as utility rooms and warehouses, Today, however, it gives the impression of an abandoned place and has a monumental form, because 4-6-1943 it was burned by the Italians during the occupation, as well as three houses of the village by the Germans, thanks to the intervention of the Arbouniotis Theodore Ath. The village was saved from complete annihilation thanks to the intervention of the village of Arambouni, thanks to the intervention of the village's officer of the detachment, Theodoros Skafidas, who was the first to be killed by the village's commander.
In the village also belongs the Historical Monastery of Papoulakos, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, which was built by Christoforos Panagiotopoulos or Papoulakos, a martyr of Orthodoxy and Romanity, in 1830 and in which he lived with two other monks Cosmas and Averikio. It was in this monastery that the well-known monk envisioned his entire work and from there he set out on his sacred mission. Inside the monastery is kept the sacred HEART of PAPOULAKOS, which was transferred in 1973 from the Monastery of PANACHRADOS in Andros, where he had been exiled and died. Due to the historicity of the Monastery and the contribution of its Founder to Orthodoxy, the above-mentioned Monastery of PAPOULAKOS has been declared a preserved Historical Monument by the Ministry of Culture. Every day many pilgrims go to the Monastery, because there is a highway, dirt of course, but passable and in good condition. Today there are no monks in the monastery.
The inhabitants used to be engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. Livestock farming was more developed. Their houses were in the form of a two-storey building, the upper part was used for housing and the lower part for housing the animals. Because of the agonizing area and the abandonment by the state, the inhabitants started to leave the village seeking better fortune in foreign lands and urban centers.
Arbouna today has a completely different look. It presents the form of a modern village. One is happy to walk on the internal cemented roads or cross the paved Community Highway.