British author and playwright Patrick Leigh Fermor said of the Peloponnese region of Greece in his novel Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, “Passing by, you see Mani in three days, walking in three months, and in order to see its soul, you need three lives; one for the sea, one for its mountains and one for its people.”
A fan of literature or not, the aesthetic beauty of the Peloponnese and its mountains and sea will help you understand his sentiments before you’ve even experienced the philoxenia—friendliness towards strangers—of its residents.
The mountainous Peloponnese peninsula is an ‘island within the mainland’ surrounded by water and connected to the mainland at just two points—to the east over the Corinth Canal and over the Rion-Antirion Bridge to the north. Its mulberry leaf shape, essentially three finger peninsulas jutting south into the sea, earned the region the name Moreas (which means mulberry) in the Middle Ages.
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