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Kardamyli is the departure point of many mountain trails, some of which lead to the peak of Mount Taygetus. Kardamyli is known in the area for having an especially good view of Mount Taygetus, known locally as Profitis Ilias, literally translating to "Prophet Elias". Nearby is the Viros Gorge, with a total length of 20 km. The Viros Gorge ...
Its site is located northeast the modern Kardamyli, at the distance of 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) from the sea, where there are considerable ruins of the town. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] References
Kardamyla (Greek: Καρδάμυλα) is a village and a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit.
Today the Mani's coastal villages are full of cafés and souvenir shops. The peninsula attracts visitors for its Byzantine churches, Frankish castles, sandy beaches and scenery. Some popular beaches during the summer are Kalogria and the beaches by Stoupa harbor, while Kardamyli and Agios Nikolaos have good pebble
West Mani (Greek: Δυτική Μάνη, romanized: Dytiki Mani) is a municipality in the Messenia regional unit, Peloponnese, Greece.The seat of the municipality is the town Kardamyli. [2]
In 2020, he co-founded the Kardamyli Festival with his wife, Charlotte. The five-day festival takes place in the Greek Peloponnese every October and is devoted to the themes of history, politics and culture. He was a Booker Prize judge in 2008, [6] and chaired the Costa Book Awards in 2014. [7]
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor DSO OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. [1] He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, [2] and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). [3]
Gradually, over the next few years, several of the suffragan sees were merged into the metropolitan see, beginning with Kardamyli (1834), Oitylo, Epidavros, and Zygos (1841), Gytheio (1842), and Asini (1852). In 1837 furthermore, the seat of the metropolis was moved from Mistra to the modern town of Sparti.