Kalamata is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula, after Patras, in southern Greece and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region. As the capital and chief port of the Messenia regional unit, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf.
Image: Kalamata, Peloponnese, Greece
Image: Kalamata Burg
Image: Agios Ioannis Kalamata 01
Image: Apostelkirche Kalamata
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus or Morea is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge which separates the Gulf of Corinth from the Saronic Gulf. From the late Middle Ages until the 19th century, the peninsula was known as the Morea, a name still in colloquial use in its demotic form.
The Corinth Canal
Landscape in Arcadia
View of the Argolic gulf, with Nafplio visible
The Lion Gate in Mycenae