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Trophopoleio 51

51 Spartis Street, a few meters from Kalamata's Municipal Market, is where you'll find Trofopoleio 51 (Food Shop), a little shop that sells regional products. There's nothing about it that attracts the eye, at first. However, behind the display area with local products from small producers, such as extra virgin olive oil, the famous Kalamata […]

Markets & Kalamata

Things to do at Lake Kerkini

Lake Kerkini and the wetlands around it are among the best places in Greece for bird watching. Rivers, canals, marshes, riparian forests, flooded fields as well as cultivated areas and mountain habitats surround the lake, which is filled with birdlife all year round. A week's visit, especially in spring, can offer the keen birdwatcher […]

Sights & Kerkini

Oikoperiigitis

It may be a difficult name to get your tongue around but 'Oikoperiigitis' basically means traveler's house and is short for the Traveler's House and Ecological Center of Kerkini-Belles. Located in the village of Kerkini, it is, to put it briefly, a simply wonderful example of a holistic alternative place to stay. The story began […]

Accommodation & Kerkini

Water buffalo of Kerkini

Traveling around the land, mainly in the north and northwest, you will see many herds of water buffalo - the largest concentration in Greece. They may be ambling towards the calm waters of the lake where they love to swim and cool off in summer. Some historians trace the presence of water buffalo in Greece […]

Sights & Kerkini

Museum of Marble Crafts

The Museum of Marble Crafts at Pyrgos is one of nine thematic museums created by the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Piraeus. Together they welcome more than a hundred thousand visitors every year, and they provide remarkable insights into Greece's cultural heritage with emphasis on crafts and early industrial technology (Other museums are devoted […]

Municipal Market of Tinos

In the main town fresh fruit and vegetables go on sale every day in the open air municipal farmers market at Pallada, between the new and old harbor of Tinos island. The local products that you are likely to find at the Municipal Market of Tinos, depending on the season, are artichokes - wild and cultivated, […]

Markets & Tinos

Semantron Traditional Village

The Semantron Traditional Village is located at Eleonas near Diakofto and it is the most historic and, at the same time, the most attractive hotel complex in the whole of Aigialeia. Built in the middle of Eleonas - the region's largest olive grove - it lies 167 km from Athens (about 1,5 hour now that the […]

Accommodation & Aigialeia

Tinos Food Paths

Tinos Food Paths is an organized movement of entrepreneurs who belong to the Tinos Association of Restaurants and Tavernas whose aim is to develop and promote local food resources. The - mainly young - people in the restaurant business on the island have bonded with others in the wider gastronomic sector - producers, wine makers, […]

Liopita

You'll find Liopita, a place where every kind of pie (pita) is made, at 12 Demosthenous Street, in Kalamata's Old Market. Its owner, Elpida Peristeropoulou, a woman who, because of Greece's 'crisis', left her job as an accountant and decided to create something of her own, a shop specializing in hand-made pies. It's an undertaking […]

Markets & Kalamata

Ariston Café Sweetshop

In the main square in the main town on Kos you'll find a café-sweetshop of a kind that is dying out in our day. Its founder, Michalis Tsivrinis, a refugee from Smyrna and well versed in the art of making Anatolian sweets, opened his shop, the Ariston, in 1952. In 1977 his son Konstantinos inherited […]

Kalavryta rack and pinion railway

Perhaps the most beautiful route in Greece is the one taken by the famous train on the Diakofto - Kalavryta rack and pinion railway. The little train, which can carry no more than 100 passengers, takes just one hour to complete its journey of 22 km, during which it climbs 750 m above sea level. A […]

Sights & Aigialeia

The shipyards of Koilada (tarsanades)

Koilada is a coastal fishing village in Ermionida, 3 km west of Kranidi, whose harbor it is. Whereas Porto Heli, Costa and Ermioni are well known resorts that receive all the publicity and therefore attract celebrities as well as less well-heeled tourists, unassuming small Koilada avoids the floodlights. Despite its modest character, it has nonetheless […]

Sights & Ermionida

Grand houses in Kranidi

Kranidi, the seat of the municipality of Ermionida, is located in the south-eastern corner of the Peloponnese, with a population of four thousand inhabitants, about 50 km from Nafplion. It is connected with Piraeus and the Argosaronic Islands via the harbors of Ermioni and Portoheli. Kranidi is built in semi-circular tiers on the slopes of […]

Sights & Ermionida

Amygdalota Porou - Danglis (almond sweets)

Amygdalota Porou - Danglis is a family business that has been 'sweetening up' the people of Poros since 1976. Today's shop sits on Karamanou Square in town and besides the famous crushed almond confections it also offers traditional ice creams, 'karydota' (walnut goodies ), 'kourabiedes' (almond shortbread), 'pastelli' (seed and nut brittles) and spoon sweets, all […]

Markets & Poros

Municipal Market of Poros

The Municipal Market of Poros (in Greek 'agora') is an old market above the coast road in an arcade on both sides of a lane that before the opening of the supermarket housed a dozen or so shops. Sadly today only two have remained, the Olympiakos butcher owned by the sons of Evangelos Koulis and […]

Markets & Poros

Laographic Workshop of the Municipality of Ermionida

The reputation of the Laographic Workshop of the Municipality of Ermionida preceded us wherever we went in the area and asked questions concerning the traditions and gastronomy of Ermionida. It did not take long before we made an appointment at the center in order to find out more about the activities of the women who belong to […]

Sights & Ermionida

Ermionida's centuries-old olive trees

Hundreds of centuries-old olive trees may be found in the Ermionida region, indicating the existence of a historic olive grove. A precise estimate of their age is not feasible because the method of measuring with radioactive isotopes applies only to the heartwood, which is no longer present owing to the trees' advanced age. However, the […]

Sights & Ermionida

Lemon Forest

If Poros is renowned all over Greece, it owes its claim to fame to its Lemon Forest. Not only because of the wonderful poem by the same name by Kosmas Politis, who described so well the beauty and atmosphere of the 1930s when a tour of the Lemon Forest took place on donkey back but […]

Kalamata's Municipal Market

Every Wednesday and Saturday the new Municipal Market hosts the Kalamata farmers' market. It's 30 years old now, but we say new to distinguish it from the old market, which now houses the Archaeological Museum of Messinia. Producers from all over the region arrive at the crack of dawn to set up their stands around […]

Markets & Kalamata

Patrick Leigh Fermor's home in Kardamyli

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915-2011), writer, scholar and World War II veteran, was one of the most important British travelers of the 20th century. He led a life of adventure and spent much of it in Greece, which he loved as his second homeland. The house he built at Kardamyli in Messinian Mani in […]

Sights & Kalamata

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