Kalamata on the Messenian Gulf

21 September 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Kalamata's promenade © Pfloros/cc-by-sa-3.0

Kalamata’s promenade © Pfloros/cc-by-sa-3.0

Kalamata is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. The capital and chief port of the Messenia regional unit, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf. Kalamata is renowned as the land of the Kalamatianos dance and of the Kalamata olives. In independent Greece, Kalamata became one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean sea. It is not surprising that the second-oldest Chamber of Commerce in the Mediterranean, after that of Marseille, exists in Kalamata.   read more…

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