THE TRAVELLING SUITCASE The trip to Mani Greece

Mani Lakonia Greece

Mani , Greece : A trip into the country's past.

Mani is the southermost and middle peninsula of the Peloponnese region.
Its the central peninsula of the three which extends southwards from the Peloponnese in southern Greece. To the east is the Laconian Gulf, to the west the Messenian Gulf. The peninsula forms a continuation of the Taygetos mountain range, the western spine of the Peloponnese. 

Its here that continental Greece and Europe ends, next to a lighthouse that warns ships to steer clear of the cliffs of Matapan and Cavo Grosso.
A mystical place where the Poseidon's Oracle of the deads can be found in a small and isolated cave as referred by Pafsanias and Ploutarch, the mythical entrance to the underworld. It is a wild landscape and maybe nowhere in Greece does a region seem so close to its medieval past.
It is mountainous and the soil is mainly made of marble.This scarce of trees land and its dramatic scenery has formed the independent nature of its inhabitants who are well known for their bravery and their revolutionary character.

Genuine descendants of the Spartans they were never totally subjugated to any of the occupiers, but have a strong sense of hospitality as anywhere in Greece.

Until recent years many Mani villages could be reached only by sea but nowadays all of them are accessible by car. 







Narrow winding roads have been built along most of the coast giving everyone a good reason to visit this arid piece of land  which drops into crystal clear waters, a rocky landscape full of Byzantine chapels, towered villages and tales of lawless chieftains and pirates .

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