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For a great period of time the name "Mani" was the synonym of freedom, as it was always free from invasions and maintain the customs and traditions during her history.

How to go
Route: Athens - Gythio
Route: Kalamata - Areopoli
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Mani, earth from stone and sun, plain but immensely charming , with harsh mountain landscapes over bays that are stubbornly fighting against winds , with small settlements and towers unsurpassed folklore architecture, with countless Byzantine churches and cradles caves of existence and culture.

People uncompromising and frugal , with deep roots in customs, hardworking and hospitable. Mani . Proud and rebellious , historical and traditional , unique in every step of the lucky visitor, wondering how they manage and find soil in dry soil are prickly and small olive trees , which give but famous oil.

It descends from the Taygetus , on the west coast of the Messinian Gulf , east to the inlet of the Laconic Gulf and south in the large peninsula , the western peninsula of Laconia.

 Taygetos , which sweetens the neck between Gythion and Areopolis, stands again with Saggia name as the southern tip of the peninsula, at Cape Tenaro and creates South Mani , dividing both in East and West .

In East , South of Gythion , the slopes falling sharply in the Gulf of Laconia .n the West , south of Areopolis , Mani Mesa , forms straightening , low platform with limestone composition, drains water in Messinian Gulf mainly through underground karst formations and reaches the dry and barren steep sea .

Eroded in this way the west coast is full of caves . Among them , the famous Katafygi and Alepotrypa .

In Mani there are 98 traditional villages, out of 118 of Peloponnese.

Previously , administrative, constituted a single region perimvanontas and the Messinian Mani , when following the law , the northern part of West Mani ( Exo Mani ) which belonged to the province Itilo , annexed to the province of Kalamata in Messinia .

Wherever they went, they left , they kept , like the ones that were , habits and traditions. Those that accompany today's visitors to the towers of Mani and its dwelling towers , churches and castles , the coastal settlements deep in the bays and abandoned residential complexes in the mountainous interior . In the land of stone and sun, the simple but immensely charming.