Things to do

  1. Taste some of the specialties of Mani, like orange sausage, lalakia, mani olives and mani oil.
  2. Old town Kardamyli: consists of a fortified settlement eith an 18th-century church,plus restored tower, oil press and three-storey building. You can poke around the fortifications and the building has basic exhibits with explanations in English of Maniot dettlements.

3. Patrick Leigh Fermor House: Larger-than-life Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011), one of Britain’s most eminent writers, lived just outside Kardymili on-and-off for much of his later life with his wife, Joan.’

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4.  Cultural center of the municipality of eastern Mani: The Municipality is a municipality Eastern Mani Peloponnese region established by the Program Kallikrates the combination of pre-existing municipalities Gythio Smynous, Itilo eastern Mani.

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