Olympia: Amongst shady pine, olive and oak trees, in a valley between Mount Kronos and the Alfios...
Places & Sights
Sparta: (11,911 inhab.) is notorious in ancient history for the austerity of its regime, but it is...
Korinth: Corinth is built on the Isthmus, the canal connecting Central Greece with the Peloponnese; she overlooks...
Olympia: (1,063 inhab.) the original site of the games where the flame is still lit, can be...
Tripolis: Is in the central Peloponnese a major crossroads of the Peloponnese, from which most travellers either...
Argos: (20,700 inhab.) Argos today is a mid-size, quiet town that sits on the edge of the...
Patras was formed in Mycenaen times by the merging of three rural colonies. Achaeans came from the...
Patra the capital of Peloponnesse, is a thriving commercial and industrial centre, the third most important town...
The southern part of mainland Greece, known as Morea, consists of the large Peloponnese Peninsula, now divided...
In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were...
