Historical Centre of Kalamata

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Information: Kalamata was a very small city and houses were built around and very close to the city walls of the ancient acropolis. In the beginning of the previous century it started spreading and it was finally united with the houses built by the port. The old city now is the area between the church

Diros Caves

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Information: Diros Caves is actually a place that everyone should visit and see in their lifetime. Actually there are three caves, the Alepotrypa, Katafigi and Glyfada. This is a unique experience traveling barely a subterranean river length 1,600 m. The magic of the color, and the beautiful shapes, formed by the stalactites and stalagmites makes

Saint Theodora of Vasta

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Information: In a gully near Vasta village in Central Peloponese, St Theodora’s tiny chapel dating from the 11th or the 12th century is certainly a miracle of nature, and for the faithful, a sign of God’s power. In 2003, a geophysical investigation presented in Greece proved that the roots of the trees enveloping the structure

Temple of Apollo Epicurius

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Information: The temple in its current form was built between 420 and 400 BC. Archaeologists believe that under its foundations lies an even more ancient temple, probably from the seventh century BC. The temple is a unique monument and the inspiration behind its construction and the architect is considered to be the great and skillful

Ancient Olympia

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Information: Olympia, ruined ancient sanctuary is one of the most important archaeological sites in Greece, this was the place where the ancient Olympic Games were organized and this is why an entire sanctuary to god Zeus which had been ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the World and was constructed next to the athletic installations in

Mystras

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Information: Mystras also known as Myzithras in the Chronicle of the Morea, is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Situated on mountain Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering. The site remained inhabited throughout the Ottoman period, when it was mistaken

Palace of Nestor

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  Information: The Palace of Nestor  was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor’s kingdom of “sandy Pylos”. The site is the best preserved Mycenaean Greek palace discovered. The palace is the primary structure within a larger Late Helladic era settlement, once probably surrounded by a fortified wall. The palace was a two-storey building with store rooms, workshops, baths, light wells,

Ancient Messene

Information: Messene is a significant ancient city in terms of its size, form, and state of preservation, and still has much to offer. It possesses not only sanctuaries and public buildings, but also imposing fortifications, and houses and tombs. It enjoys, amongst other things, the advantage of never having been destroyed or covered by later settlements,