Aventuras a Pie (de Página)The Peloponnese peninsula, in the southwest of Greece, concentrates the majority of the most impressive fortifications of the Middle Ages of Greece, including crusader, Venetian and Ottoman castles.
Today we are going to explore the castle of Methoni, one of the most important tourist attractions in the region and talk a little about its history.
The Messinian peninsula in southwestern Peloponnese concentrates the majority of the most impressive medieval fortifications of Greece, including acueductos, Venetian, and Ottoman castles.
In this video we will briefly explore the Pylos castle, talk a little about its history and visit its acueductos.
In our day adventure, we are going to do a circular hike in the Pylos area and the Navarino Bay, which combines history and nature in a quite unique way.
We are going to visit the Voidokoilia beach, a beach with one of the most striking landscapes in Greece, Nestor’s cave, a huge cave and probably a sanctuary; the Navarino castle, also known as Paleokastro, the Gialova wetland, where you can see many birds, including storks and flamingos and finally we are going to visit a Mycenaean tomb attributed to the son of Nestor, the wise king of Pylos according to Homer’s Iliad.
Platamon Castle is a Crusader castle in northern Greece with a violent history and many changes of hands.
In this video, we explore her inside and her story in detail.
Eptapirgio is a Byzantine fortress on the acropolis of Thessaloniki and was the last line of defense of the city.
However, the Greeks know it much more as a prison with inhumane conditions where people were tortured and killed.
In this video, we explore it inside.
In reality, it is a 4th century BC fortification in good state of conservation, that extends underwater and formed part of a network of fortifications to avoid an enemy attack.
In this video we visit Sifas and other fortresses of the same era: Xironomi, Tisbe and Platea.
Fortress of Aigosthena: https://youtu.be/LaeFJ5mmcJA
Fortress of Eleuteras: https://youtu.be/Ctgkqn7Y56E
We are going to explore Thorikos; excellent ruins with a lot of history, and the most important population of Laurion, the famous silver mines place, Athens’ success secret.
The kingdom of Orchomenus was the eternal enemy of its neighbor to the east, Thebes, and included this city as well as the lands occupied by the lake Copai and the island-fortress of Gla.
In this video, we visit the Mycenaean and Hellenistic ruins of Orchomenus.
In the adventure of the day we visited the red castle of Karistos, in the Greek island of Euboia, in Greece.
The castle of a thousand years of age passed through many hands, being a Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman castle, before ending up in Greek hands.
In this video, we explore it in detail.