The sea and civilization

Arrival at Athens international airport. Transfer to your hotel.

Transfer to the motorcycle garage. You leave Athens for the monastery of Osios Loukas, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

🔎 O sios Loukas Monastery

The route continues along the slopes of Mount Parnassus to reach the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, also a UNESCO site.

🔎 Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi

After the visit, continuation to Galaxidi, a charming fishing village on the shores of the Gulf of Corinth. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

The route skirts the Gulf of Corinth, before crossing it via the Rion - Antirion bridge, the third largest cable-stayed bridge in the world.

You enter the Peloponnese via the Chelmos - Vouraikos national park, where the waters of the Styx, one of the 5 infernal rivers of ancient Greece, flow.

In the afternoon, you continue on to Olympia. For those who wish, visit the site and museum at sunset.

🔎 Olympia site and museum

The route crosses the Arcadian mountains towards the mysterious UNESCO-listed temple of Apollo-Epicure at Bassae.

🔎 Temple of Apollo - Epicurus

The route continues towards the west coast, to the famous Voidokilia beach. This is the site of the naval battle of Navarin.

We return to our hotel in Pylos.

Today's route returns to the Byzantine register. After a tour of the Messinian peninsula, we head for Mystras along a road lost in the mountains, dotted with forgotten Byzantine chapels.

This morning, visit the ancient city founded by the Franks in the 13th century, then conquered by the Byzantines and Turks.

🔎 Medieval site of Mystras

Departure around 11:00 am towards the Magne, following the Taygetos mountains and then a coastal road along the Messenian Gulf, one of the most picturesque in the Peloponnese.

Departure for Porto Kagio, at the tip of the Magne peninsula. The route follows roads overlooking the Gulf of Laconia. Lunch in the old port of Gythio.

In the afternoon, drive to Monemvasia. Take a stroll around this city, which was in turn Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian, Turkish and Greek.

🔎 f ortified town of Monemvasia

Sea bathing available at the foot of the ramparts (in season).

After a final stroll in the morning light, your itinerary continues towards the Parnonas massif. Lunch in a charming mountain village or by the sea, depending on the circumstances. The route then follows a magnificent coastal road along the Argolic Gulf to Nafplio.

🔎 Nafplio

Departure for Mycenae, a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age city with admirably preserved Cyclopean fortifications.

🔎 City of Mycenae

Then on to Epidaurus, to admire the world's best-preserved ancient amphitheatre.

🔎 Sanctuary of Asclepias at Epidaurus

Then you'll head up along the Saronic Gulf towards the Isthmus of Corinth, which you'll skirt along a discreet coastal road.

Return to Athens via the expressway to the motorcycle garage. In the evening, dinner in Plaka, at the foot of the Acropolis.

For those returning, check-out and transfer to the airport for the return flight. For those who have taken the overnight extension, a free day in Athens.