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Kalamata, the capital of the Prefecture of Messinia, is located in the cove of the Messinian Gulf and is built at the foot of Mount Kalathi, on the outskirts of Mount Taygetos, on the site of the ancient Pharos. It is the administrative, economic and commercial center of the southwestern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers from Patra and 230 kilometers from Athens.

By road, Kalamata is connected to Tripoli and by extension to Athens, via the Corinth - Tripoli - Kalamata highway. To the west, Kalamata is connected by road to Pyrgos Ilias and Patras.

Kalamata has a civil airport (IATA:KLX), from which flights to Athens and Thessaloniki are operated, as well as charter flights to various cities in Europe. The distance from the city of Kalamata is 7 km. From the port of Kalamata there are routes to Kythira and Crete during the summer months.

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Kalamata has a population of 70,130 residents. The city is characterized by a beautiful street layout, has a temperate Mediterranean climate, wide streets and a beautiful 4 km long beach, which is ideal for swimming.

It was one of the areas that pioneered the War of Independence, was conquered and destroyed many times by enemies and natural disasters and has remained an important commercial port of the Peloponnese and southern mainland Greece since the 19th century.

Its Castle, built by the Frankish Villardouin family of rulers in the 13th century, crowns the city. Its modern amphitheatre has hosted the International Dance Festival and other cultural events every summer for two decades. The small Byzantine church of the Holy Apostles (from here the Revolution began on March 23, 1821) stands in a square and neighborhood designed for pedestrians, while the surrounding neighborhoods are embellished by many neoclassical buildings that house services or cultural institutions.

In Kalamata, a city that lends itself to strolling along the pedestrian streets where exhibitions and many cultural events are often organized, you will discover tempting places to eat and drink. The city has a number of important attractions to show off: the excellent Archaeological Museum of Messinia, housed in the building of the Old Municipal Market and including findings from all geographical areas of Messinia symbolically following the flow of the Pamisos River, the Historical and Folklore Museum, where among other things there is a section dedicated to bookbinding and typography, the Military Museum, the Gallery of Contemporary Greek Art with a very rich collection of works by Greek artists, mainly from the 50s and 60s, the Municipal Gallery "A. Tassos", which gathers works mainly from the 80s, as well as many other institutions that cultivate Music and the Arts.

Kalamata was and always is a city of commerce and culture. Since the 19th century, it has become a major commercial and shipping center with the production of raisins and silk, while today the rich museums, the Railway Park, the paved square - an entertainment area in winter and concerts in summer, the marked bicycle path, the sidewalk of the coastal road, contribute to making Kalamata one of the most interesting cities in Greece while it is also a stop for getting to know the wider region with unique beauties, such as Messinian Mani, Taygetos, Koroni, Ancient Messina

etc.