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Monemvasia - Monemvassia
Tourist Information and Travel Guide
ABOVE: The lower town of Monemvasia clings to a
rock on the Pélagos Sea.
Monemvasia
(sometimes spelled Monemvassia or Monemvasiá)
is often called "the Gibraltar of Greece." The town, on the southeastern coast
of the Peloponnese peninsula, is a massive walled fortress that once housed an
estimated 50,000 Byzantine Greeks. Today, fewer than a hundred people live
year-round on the Rock of Monemvasia; most of the town's 5,000 residents prefer
the port, where cars, supermarkets, and other modern conveniences make up for
the lack of
historic atmosphere.
My favorite Greek guidebook, the Michelin Green Guide: Greece,
gives Monemvasia two stars and assigns the maximum three-star rating to its
"particularly spectacular site." That's reason enough to include Monemvassia in
any tour of the Peloponnese--especially if you're headed to Sparta and the
Byzantine ruins of Mistras, which are only an hour and a half away.
Next page:
Capsule history of Monemvasia
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