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Location: Messenia, Greece

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1. Koroni – View of Finikounda Bay loop from Kamaria

44.0km

03:05

850m

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2. Koroni harbor ⚓⛵ – Koroni loop from Koroni

43.4km

03:01

760m

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3. Koroni harbor ⚓⛵ – Koroni loop from Koroni

22.6km

01:43

500m

490m

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Peter

March 4, 2025

Koroni (Greek: Κορώνη) is a small town in southeastern Messinia in Greece and since 2011 a municipal district of the municipality Pylos-Nestor. Koroni was the administrative center of the municipality of the same name from 1997 to the end of 2010.

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Peter

March 4, 2025

The town is located in a bay on the east coast of the Messinian peninsula, about 50 kilometers south of Kalamata and 30 kilometers east of Methoni. To the west of the town, the landscape is slightly hilly, and the scenery is dominated by olive groves. The town is located on the back of a peninsula that juts out into the Messinian Gulf. The Koroni fortress is on the plateau of the peninsula, the town lies inland behind it, with the center and harbor north of the fortress. There are several sandy beaches in the immediate vicinity of the town, the most well-known being the beaches of Zaga and Memi (Παραλία Ζάγκα, Παραλία Μέμι) on the southern side of the fortress. For the structure, see Pylos-Nestor#Community structure.

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Peter

March 4, 2025

History: The ancient city of Koroni, or then called Korone, was probably founded in 369 BC in connection with the liberation of Messinia from Sparta. It was located near the present-day town of Petalidi. There are still remains of walls from Roman times and the old harbor mole under water. The Roman travel writer Pausanias reports from ancient Korone. The city, which was a bishop's seat from the 4th century, was abandoned in the 9th century and moved to its current location, where the ancient city of Asine already stood. The remains of an Apollo temple from this period still exist, which was converted into a Byzantine basilica and on whose site the church of Agia Sophia now stands.
In the 6th to 7th centuries, a castle was built on the ruins of the city, which has been used without interruption to this day. The castle extends over the strategically favorable headland at the entrance to the Gulf of Messinia and was naturally protected on three sides by its cliffs sloping steeply into the sea.Agia Sofia.

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