Lazareto Hotel Monemvasia
Lazareto-Kastro Monemvasia, Peloponnese, 23070, Greece
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Beautiful old village
... The nice Greek lady (Fotini) offered to take us all 4 with her in her little Fiat. How kind of her and how great for us.
Monemvasia means something like "one gate only and one street only". And that is how this village is built. You walk thru a gate and then you are in this beautiful village with many little alleys with shops, bars and restaurants. Very nice. There are a lot of cats around. I think even more ...
Dyros caves and Monemvasia
... Boat trip is around 1200 meters and you see large halls and narrow passes, big massive stalactites and small fragile stalagmites. This place is something else for endless ancient ruin sites and second best place in our trip (after Meteora).
Our hotel was in Monemvasia, which is a site of its own. Former rocky cape, which turned to island in some earthquake, holds a ...
Sturm
Die Reise von Olympia nach Neapoli war gar nicht so einfach. Dazu musste ich zweimal umsteigen. Zudem war Sonntag und somit der Fahrplan stark reduziert. In Tripolis, dem zweiten Umsteigsort, musste ich zudem 1 Stunde beim Eindunkeln vom einen Busbahnhof zum anderen wechseln. Dies, weil die Busunternehmen privatisiert und in viele kleine Unternehmen zerstueckelt sind. Dies fuehrt dazu, dass ...
Monemvasia - "The Single Entrance"
... and churches on the far side of the rock along spiraling lanes, erected giant walls along the lower city and around the fortress on the rock’s peak and crossed to the mainland either through a wooden drawbridge or by wading through the shallow waters. By the end of the 12th century, Monemvasia was a major city in the Peloponnesus. Ships sailing between Constantinople (now Istanbul) and what is now Italy stopped there, giving rest to aristocrats and ...
Episode 27
... of ancient Sparta.
Although built by this Frenchman it soon came under the Byzantines who defeated the French in a battle. It stayed in their possession until a few years after Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks who then took Mystra. They were ousted for a few years by the Venetians then they occupied it again from 1715 until the Greeks finally ousted the Ottomans in the first half of the 19th century.
The castle sits at the top of ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Lazareto



