Η Baukeri as well as the neighbouring Englouvi were the bastion of Orthodoxy during the dark years of the Ottoman rule. The privileges they had from the Turks, since they were allowed to build the holy monastery of the Incorruptible Archangel Michael, may to some extent express the spirit of struggle and resistance of the inhabitants who in 1940 made the whole world bow before their greatness, writing headlines in the newspapers about their resistance spirit. The smallest corner of the planet resisted an empire. They disarmed and captured Italian carabinieri who went to the village to collect taxes. It was the first form of resistance against the conquerors and the world bowed to those who unknowingly - for the greatness of their actions - were then writing these historic moments.
Today, Vaukeri may have remained with few inhabitants, since the two villages located at the foot of the mountain and the plain, Rachi and Nydri, have been colonized, but they have not lost their residential and cultural character. Most of the houses are made of stone and everything that is built bears the stamp of the traditional. The visitor enters a village that takes him mentally back to the 1500s or 1600s, and when he passes by the plane tree or the village fountain, he is mentally accompanied by the visions of the Carnatic women who, with their pinyates and scarabs on their heads, rose at dawn to forge the economic and cultural life of the region with their work.