At the eastern edge of the Peloponnese, facing the open waters of the Laconian Sea, rises a limestone promontory a mile long and nearly two hundred meters high. From a distance, it looks like an ...

In November 2016, I travelled to Greece along with my friend Mr Justice Grazio Mercieca. We drove straight from Athens down to the southernmost point of the Peloponnese. We were heading to the rock of ...

Monemvasia in Laconia Greece is a breathtaking medieval fortress town carved into a massive rock rising from the sea where cobblestone paths, Byzantine churches, stone mansions, and dramatic coastal ...

The hidden town of Monemvasia, Monemvasia is a Gibraltar-like rocky island off the east coast of the Peloponnese, in Greece, and linked to the mainland by a short causeway. The island is about 300 m ...

23:01, Sat, Jan 11, 2025 Updated: 23:07, Sat, Jan 11, 2025 A town that was constructed to be invisible from the mainland to avoid enemy attacks is Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited castle town.

I hesitate to write about my favourite places, because I don’t want people to go there and spoil them. But even in this age of easy mass travel, Monemvasia is still refreshingly difficult to reach, ...