Greece : The Peloponnese

by Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls

• ISBN13: 9781860119804
• ISBN10: 1860119808
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Cadogan Guides

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(1)
How to Visit the Peloponnese	2	(1)
Travel	3	(14)
Getting There	4	(1)
By Air	4	(5)
By Train	9	(1)
By Coach	10	(1)
By Sea from Italy	10	(1)
By Sea from Piraeus	11	(1)
By Car	12	(1)
Getting Around	13	(1)
Hiring a Car	13	(1)
By Local Bus	13	(1)
By Taxi	13	(1)
By Motorbike and Moped	14	(1)
By Bicycle	14	(1)
Hitch-hiking	14	(1)
Entry Formalities	14	(1)
Specialist Holidays	15	(2)
Practical A--Z	17	(22)
Climate, and When to Go	18	(1)
Embassies and Consulates	19	(1)
Events and Cultural Attractions	20	(1)
Food and Drink	21	(6)
Health	27	(1)
Money	28	(1)
Museums, Archaeological Sites and Churches	29	(1)
National Holidays	29	(1)
Packing	30	(1)
Picnics	30	(1)
Photography	30	(1)
Post Offices	31	(1)
Shopping	31	(1)
Sports	31	(2)
Telephones	33	(1)
Time	33	(1)
Toilets	33	(1)
Tourist Information Travelling with Children	34	(1)
Where to Stay	35	(3)
Women Travellers	38
Toilets	30	(1)
Tourist Information	30	(1)
Where to Stay	30	(9)
History	39	(10)
20,000--3000 BC: The Stone Age	40	(1)
3000--1200 BC: The Bronze Age	41	(1)
1200--500 BC: The Dark Age and the Archaic Age	41	(1)
500--323 BC: The Classical Moment	42	(2)
338--146 BC: The Hellenistic Age	44	(1)
146 BC--330 AD	44	(1)
330--1204: The Byzantine Empire	45	(1)
1205--1821: Franks, Byzantines and Turks Build Castles in the Air	45	(1)
1821--27: The War of Independence: 1821--27	46	(1)
Modern Greece: Free at Last (or a Free for all?)	47
A Kingdom Again	44	(5)
Art in the Peloponnese	49	(18)
Early Helladic (Early Bronze Age) 3000--2000 BC	50	(1)
Middle Helladic 2000--1600 BC	50	(1)
Late Helladic (Mycenaean) 1600--1100 BC	51	(1)
Dark Ages/Geometric 1100--770 BC	52	(1)
Archaic (770--500 BC)	53	(2)
Classical (500--323 BC)	55	(2)
Hellenistic (323 BC--30 BC)	57	(1)
Roman (30 BC--AD 529)	58	(1)
Byzantine (AD 400--1452)	58	(1)
Franks and Venetians and Turks and Greeks (1204--present)	59	(8)
Gods, Heroes and a Travel Writer	67	(6)
Poniria and the Island of Pelop	62	(1)
Who's Who and What's What in Greek Mythology	63	(2)
Heracles and Sons	65	(2)
Wine: From Symposia to Retsina	67	(1)
Pausanias and the Golden Age of Guides	68	(1)
More Kinky Stuff about the Spartans	69	(4)
Athens	73	(34)
Athens	74	(1)
History	74	(6)
Orientation	80	(2)
Major Museums and Sites	82	(9)
Other Museums and Sites	91	(2)
Byzantine Churches and Monasteries	93	(2)
Where to Stay	95	(3)
Eating Out	98	(6)
Entertainment and Nightlife	104	(1)
Piraeus Historical Outline	105	(1)
Getting Around	105	(1)
Around the City	105	(1)
Where to Stay and Eating Out	106	(1)
Corinthia	107	(28)
Corinth	113	(7)
Isthmia, the Canal and Kenchreai	120	(4)
North of Corinth: Loutraki and Perachora	124	(3)
South of Corinth	127	(1)
Ancient Nemea	128	(2)
The Corinthian Gulf Coast	130	(1)
Kiato and Ancient Sikyon	131	(1)
Xilocastro	132	(3)
Achaia	135	(40)
Mount Kyllini	140	(1)
Ano Trikala, the Convent and the Ring Road	141	(1)
Stymphalia and Pheneos	142	(3)
Evrostina	145	(2)
Between Kyllini and Chelmos	147	(1)
Akrata Around	147	(2)
Mountains Southeast of Akrata	149	(3)
Chelmos: South of Akrata	152	(1)
The River Styx	153	(1)
Diakofto	154	(1)
South of Diakofto	155	(1)
Kalavrita	156	(3)
South of Kalavrita	159	(2)
Deep into Erymanthos	161	(1)
Back on the Coast: West of Diakofto	162	(2)
Eghio	164	(2)
Rio	166	(2)
Patras	168	(7)
Elis	175	(36)
Northern Elis	176	(5)
Katakolo, Pyrgos, and Alphios the Sacred River	181	(2)
Olympia	183	(15)
North and East from Olympia	198	(1)
South of Olympia: Along the Coast to Messenia	198	(2)
Krestena to Andritsaina, the Temple at Bassae, and the Neda Gorge	200	(11)
Argolis	211	(46)
Approaching Mycenae from the North	212	(1)
Mycenae	213	(9)
The Argive Plain	222	(1)
Argos and Pretty Castles in the Air	222	(4)
The Argive Heraion	226	(3)
South of Argos to Lerna	229	(1)
Lerna and the House of Tiles	230	(2)
Nauplio	232	(6)
Amazing Tiryns	238	(2)
Beaches South of Nauplio	240	(2)
East to Epidauros	242	(5)
Akte: the Dewclaw of the Morea	247	(1)
Methan and the Volcano	248	(1)
Trizina: Ancient Troezen and the Devil	249	(3)
Galatas and Poros: Greece's `Grand Canal'	252	(2)
Ermioni, Portocheli and Kosta	254	(3)
Arcadia	257	(30)
Tripolis	262	(3)
Around Tripolis: The Flood Plain and Water Wars	265	(4)
The Megalopolis Valley	269	(1)
Megalopolis	270	(1)
Around Megalopolis	271	(1)
Lykosoura	271	(5)
Gortynia	276	(6)
The Arcadian Coast: Kynouria and the Tsakonians	282	(1)
From Tripolis to the Coast	283	(4)
Laconia	287	(56)
Ancient Sparta: Hollow in More Ways than One	288	(11)
Mystra	299	(8)
Roads over the Taiyetos	307	(2)
Eastern Laconia: Epidauros Limera	309	(1)
Down the Myrtoan Coast	309	(1)
Monemvasia	310	(5)
South of Monemvasia: Neapolis, Elafonisos, Cape Maleas	315	(2)
Kythera	317	(2)
The Mani	319	(5)
Gythio: Gateway to the Inner Mani	324	(3)
Areopolis, Itilo and the Dirou Caves	327	(4)
South of Dirou: Into the Bad Mountains	331	(3)
Up the Sunny Coast	334	(1)
The Outer Mani	335	(2)
Kardamyli	337	(3)
Stoupa	340	(3)
Messenia	343	(34)
Kalamata	346	(3)
New Messini to Ancient Messene, Through the Blessed Land	349	(1)
Mavromati and Ancient Messene	349	(8)
Modern Messini to Koroni	357	(1)
Koroni	358	(2)
Methoni	360	(2)
The Island of Sapienza	362	(1)
Navarino Bay	363	(3)
Modern Pylos	366	(2)
Nestor's Palace	368	(5)
Chora and the Archaeological Museum	373	(2)
Chora to Kyparissia	375	(1)
Kyparissia	376	(1)
Language	377	(6)
Glossary of Terms	383	(1)
Further Reading	384	(2)
Index	386