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Methoni Castle — main gate

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Methoni Castle — main gate

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Methoni Castle — main gate

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Location: Messenia, Greece

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1. Methoni Beach ⛱️ – Methoni castle 🏰 main gate loop from Φοινικούντα

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2. Methoni castle 🏰 main gate – Methoni Beach ⛱️ loop from Φοινικούντα

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3. Methoni castle 🏰 main gate – Methoni Beach ⛱️ loop from Φοινικούντα

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SebastianB

June 29, 2020

That castle is worth a visit. Park your bike outside and enjoy a walk inside the ruin walls.
Thr entrance fee is just a couple of Euros and you can enjoy the well preserved buildings. You can spend from 30 minutes up to half a day, depending on your needs.

Peter

March 5, 2025

Methoni (Greek Μεθώνη, also Modon, Modoni, Mothone or ancient Greek Methone, in Homer Pedasos) is a small Greek port town in Messinia at the southwestern end of the Peloponnese with about 2598 inhabitants today (as of 2011). Until the end of 2010, Methoni was an independent municipality, after incorporations since 1997 as a city municipality (dimos). On 1 January 2011, Methoni became a municipal district of the new municipality of Pylos-Nestor (for further subdivision see there).

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Peter

March 5, 2025

Methoni is already mentioned in Homer's Iliad as Pedasos. The polis was an important trading and storage center in ancient times because of its natural harbor, but also of great military importance. Together with Pylos, it was the last to be held by the Messenians against Sparta in the Second Messenian War until 620 BC, but was then under Spartan rule until 370 BC. In 431 BC, the Athenians tried to conquer the city.

During the Roman civil wars, Marcus Antonius heavily fortified Methoni, but Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa conquered the city before the Battle of Actium. The Roman Emperor Trajan declared Methoni a free city at the beginning of the 2nd century.

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Methoni Castle — main gate

1. Methoni Beach ⛱️ – Methoni castle 🏰 main gate loop from Φοινικούντα

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