During Middle Byzantine times, the physical fortification of a settlement's location is the most basic selection criterion for its creation. Thus, the Lower City began to be created on the SE coast of the island shortly after 900 AD, about 300 years after the date of construction of Monemvasia. The
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It is the starting point for exploring by boat the entire west coast of Mesa Mani up to Cape Tainaro or even the east. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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Vathia is the most imposing outburst of a landscape which is anyway famous for its uniqueness. It has been on top of a hill for centuries. Historical sources speak of it from the middle of the 16th century. Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou
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At the eastern end of Mount Parnon, in a green landscape with high peaks and ravines that fades into the Malea cape, is the cave of Kastania. Rich in density and variety of shapes, colors and forms, it ranks second in its kind in all of Europe. It took nature three million years to create its
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In the coastal locations of Agia Marina, Korakas and Spitha, in the Laconian south, visitors are surprised and awed by the fossilized witnesses of a distant past. The findings in the fossil sites are unique in the European area and of inestimable scientific importance. Millions of years ago, various
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The Historical and Ethnological Museum of Mani is housed in the historical Tzannetaki tower, located on the picturesque island of Kranai (Marathonisi), which today is connected by a jetty to the land opposite. In this islet, according to mythology, Paris and Helen the Fair found refuge before they
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The occupations, productive specializations, daily activities and habits of life, burial customs, religious beliefs, artistic sensibilities and spiritual concerns of the Neolithic community of Diros are traced and monitored in the findings brought to light by the excavation research and today are
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After the capture of the city by the Franks in 1204, the Franks became masters of the Peloponnese, the Moreos as it was then called, in addition to other areas. Then they divided it into twelve large baronies and toparchies. One of them was the Falcon, which was assigned to the French baron Guy de
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