Vathi Beach 🏖️ – Passava Castle 🏰 loop from Meltemi

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Vathi Beach 🏖️ – Passava Castle 🏰 loop from Meltemi

Moderate

4.4

(12)

riders

Vathi Beach 🏖️ – Passava Castle 🏰 loop from Meltemi

01:49

28.1km

340m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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1.27 km

Illegal Dumping Site

Highlight • Structure

2.92 km

Memorial ☠️ Greek resistance massacred in 1943 by German troops

Highlight • Monument

The Drakeia massacre refers to the mass execution of 115 men by SS soldiers in the village of Drakeia on Mount Pelion in Thessaly on December 18, 1943. It was …

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4.57 km

Church with panoramic view of the sea and mountains

Highlight • Religious Site

9.39 km

Taverna Marias 👌🍖 bike-friendly and delicious

Highlight • Restaurant

Excellent cuisine from home-made to high end gourmand, in a generous family ambiente, cozy inside or on the leaf-shaded patio. Park next to the grandfather's 100-years-old vintage bike

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12.1 km

Castle Antonobei Grigoraki 🏰 & Chapel ⛪

Highlight • Castle

Private elaborate Mani castle with medieval and Byzantine design elements

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14.6 km

Beach

18.3 km

Vathi Beach 🏖️

Highlight • Beach

Grey sandy beach with soft small pebbles mixed in along the water

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21.6 km

Passava Castle 🏰

Highlight • Castle

Access to the overgrown pass climbing up steeply to the rarely visited castle ruins. The Githio road cuts precariously right below that castle, with a sheer cliff too steep to climb.

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28.1 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

26.0 km

2.02 km

105 m

Surfaces

26.6 km

1.28 km