Mani Monday

We continued my somewhat annual tradition of taking a day off work at Isthmia to travel around Greece a bit. This weekend, we visited the Mani Peninsula. I hadn’t been there for many years (although I follow with interest the work of Becky Siegfried and Chelsea Gardner on the Mani)

We stayed at the lovely harbor village of Yerolimena and used that as our base for visiting the Tigani peninsula with its important 7th century church. It had been over 20 years since I hiked up to Tigani. We walked out over the salt pans and noted that a few appear to have been in use pretty recently. The going was just a bit tougher than I remember it (or my 50something legs were a bit less resilient).

The top, though, the same church festooned with burials and cisterns awaited. The massive cistern that was beneath the entire north aisle was particularly impressive.