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The oldest crossroads in Greece. Stand on Acrocorinth at dusk and you see both the Corinthian and Saronic gulfs — the reason this rock has been fought over for three thousand years. Below it, the ancient agora; an hour away, the vineyards of Nemea pour the region's finest reds.
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Greece's most elegant town, and its first capital. Nafplio wears its histories in layers — Venetian, Ottoman, Bavarian — stacked in staircases and squares. It's the perfect base: within an hour lie the theatre of Epidaurus, the tombs of Mycenae, and the walls of Tiryns.
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From the mainland you see only a rock. Cross the causeway, round the far side, and an entire Byzantine city appears — churches, mansions and lanes clinging to the cliff, invisible until you're inside it. "Monemvasia" means single entrance. There is genuinely only one way in.
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The middle prong of the Peloponnese, and its most defiant. The Maniots were never fully conquered — by Ottomans or anyone else — and their stone tower-houses still bristle along the ridges. The land turns harsh and beautiful here, ending at Cape Tainaron, where a cave was believed to be an entrance to the underworld.
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The south, where the Peloponnese softens into olive groves and long beaches. Kalamata gives its name to the olive, but its real secret is Ancient Messene — a whole ancient city, theatre, stadium and all, with almost no crowds. Nearby, Voidokilia curves into a perfect crescent the ancients wrote about.
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A UNESCO ghost city of palaces and painted churches, stacked on a mountainside above the olive groves of Laconia. Walk the Despots' palace at dusk and you understand why this was the last Byzantine capital in the Peloponnese.
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