About Kalavryta - presentation, information, photos and recommendations
If you spend a few days in the Peloponnese, do not miss a trip to the small town of Kalavrita, located at 30 km distance. This city is unfortunately known to tourists, but for the Greeks is an important place of pilgrimage.
During the Second World War, 81 German soldiers were taken prisoner and killed by the Greek resistance. In a terrible act of revenge, on December 13, Nazi forces killed everybody living in Kalavrita male sex. Today, in the place where he committed the massacre, was erected a memorial. Cathedral city was rebuilt after the massacre, but the clock remained stopped left at 2.34 PM, the time you started the inferno. School were closed where women and children, currently houses Kalavrita Holocaust Museum, exhibits photos, old newspapers and documents that commemorates the execution of men.
If you get in Kalavrita do not forget to take a train ride on the railway with cremalina, which has a length of 22.5 km. The road will delight passing through gorges, through forests, along rock walls, tunnels, along some rivers, bridges, carrying you through places that will take your breath away. Walking with train will pass and through a deep gorge that separates two mountains: Mount Erimanthos Mount Helmos. According to mythology, Hercules was in love with Vouri, who lived in the sea and to reach it, the split mountains. River that separates the two mountains now called Vouri beloved Hercules.
At 20 km distance Kalavrita, is the famous cave Kastria River, measuring 2,000 m, but only 500 m can visit. The cave has three rooms, which are connected by long corridors with strange stalactite. Inside the cave is an underground river which "creates" small inland lakes. According to legend, in the three girls lived Lyssippi, Ifinoy and Ifianassa who prided themselves on their beauty, saying all that are more beautiful than the goddess Hera. Hearing this, the goddess got angry and punished them taking their minds, making them believe that they are cows :) One day, they came to the cave where he lived then Melambodas god who healed them.
Kalavryta | Kalavryta este un oraș și o municipalitate în partea central-est muntoasa a unității regionale Achaia, Grecia. Orasul este situat pe malul drept al râului Vouraikos, la 24 km (15 mile) la sud de Aigio, 40 km (25 mile) sud-est de Patras și 62 km (39 mile)
nord-vest de Tripoli
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