Κορώνη (Koroni): Part 2

This is how the stairwell looked like, or it just simply doesnt looked like anything.

No flash

W/ Flash

The only light we had was the focus-helping light of mt camera that stayed on for less than a second. Better than cameras' flashes that are not viable... Down there I got astonished about the place! A huge and large and tall and geometrical tower in a dome like room. Traces of "picnics" were everywhere and there was lots of sand even being like 20 meters above the sea.


We then found that there is a normal and harmless entrance besides the dangerous and totally dark stairs...

Walking north, with the huge green field on our right (with goats, chickens and a donkey around), we found Jeronimo and the entrance of this side of the castle/fortress that leads to that big open green space. There are pieces of the walls just having a bath in the blue/green sea. Massive pieces of medieval walls just down there, probably for a looooooong time... Why they dont get them and try to use them to reconstruct the place? Is it so hard? I dont think so... Is it viable? I am not an archeologist...


After this we tried to retrieve a carpet that was swiming in a beach right close to those wall pieces. We went into the green zone and there we can realize how big that damn fortress is. If it is that big from that point of view, I assure that into the west it is a lot bigger than this!


So, we tried to go down to the sea, but only rocks, difficult paths, Greek "sea-side silvas"... We found some caverns and we went back to the fortress. Then one or 2 more rooms in the walls and then we searched for a place to eat. Passing by some houses (yes, inside there), one car and one bike, some goats and one roulotte, we found another tower and we had our lunch there, with a great view to Koroni.

Then we went to visit the monastery inside the fortress and a tower where a lady was saying the καστρι was. Not a big deal, the monastery area very very white, you cannot enter with shorts or mini-skirt or sleeveless or showing more than half of your arms, you cannot make noise (supposely) and probably you cannot produce your offspring either...

Then we tried one of the beaches of the zone... Only the "wavy" beach is a beach... This one on the north part of the town is a big σκατά! It has something in the sand that I have no idea what it is. Looks like pieces of some tissue mixed with the wastes of a carpenter's shop. It could be a good beach, with fantastic water... But as usual, in Greece...
We slept there a bit and then we slept in the bus back home.

From Kalamata to Koroni
From 11h to 21:30h
For 4.80€ x 2

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Photo artifacts found: 15