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10 unusual facts about Taygetus


Anavryti, Laconia

Anavryti (alternate spellings include: Anavriti) is a small village in Laconia, Greece, located at 850m on Taygetus mountain.

Furthermore, there is a separate exhibition dedicated to Taygetus mountain.

Cyclamen rhodium

peloponnesiacum J. Compton & Culham is pink with a deep carmine-pink mouth and grows in shaded woodland in the Taygetus Mountains in the southern Peloponnese and near Mt. Aroania in the north.

Falaisia

The municipal unit Falaisia is located in the northern foothills of the Taygetus mountains, south of Megalopoli and north of Kalamata.

Georgitsi

Georgitsi is a village in the Taygetus mountain range 28 km away from the city of Sparta in southern Greece.

Giannaioi

Both villages are situated on a mountain slope, in the northern foothills of the Taygetus mountains, between 600 and 700 m elevation.

Kardamyli

Kardamyli is the departure point of many mountain trails, some of which lead to the peak of Mount Taygetus.

Meropi

It is located in the plains of northern Messenia, west of the Taygetus mountains.

Taygetus

The name is one of the oldest recorded in Europe, appearing in the Odyssey.

Zacharias Barbitsiotis

He is described by Kyriakos Kassis as the best thief of Taygetus.


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