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Stories
Stories from Myloi
People, places and moments from the history of our village: from Roman marble to wartime photographs and a blue car at the old station.
Overview
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From Kalamaki to Chicago
Two families from Myloi and Kalamaki, two routes to America, and what the Ellis Island passenger lists tell us about them.
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Tour du Péloponnèse: classic cars on the pier
Every autumn the classic car rally Tour du Péloponnèse comes through Myloi, and the pier fills with rally cars.
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From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
From the first farmers and the Venetian watermills to the 1960 pumping station with Heracles on its wall: the story of the spring that gave Myloi its name.
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Christmas with the President
How François Mitterrand secretly spent Christmas 1991 in a village house in Myloi, with his hidden family.
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1941, war in Greece: Myloi from above
Two aircraft over the bay in 1941: the flying boat that took a British general away from the pier, and the German reconnaissance plane that photographed the village eleven weeks later.
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Old pictures of Myloi
Discover more than 200 old photos of Myloi, many of them never published before.
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The lost church in the castle
A forgotten Latin church on Pontinos, and the priest who had to say mass there every day.
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Myloi railway station
Five buildings, two railway companies and souvlaki passed up through the train windows.
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Something blue in Myloi
Kostantinos Doris and his 1960s Triumph Herald.
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Myloi, 200 years ago: the battle broke out
How a few hundred defenders held the mills against Ibrahim Pasha on 13 June 1825.
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Yannis Makriyannis, the general of Myloi
Why a bust of one of the great figures of modern Greece stands in the centre of Myloi.
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The man who gave Lerna a face
John L. Caskey and the rediscovery of Lerna.
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Antinoos in Myloi: a marble mystery from the Roman past
The statue of Hadrian's deified favourite, found near the village.
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The castle on Pontinos
A Frankish fortress above the village, sold to Venice in 1388 and almost forgotten since.
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The Tower of the Princess
A lonely medieval tower south of Myloi, and the legend of a princess who bathed in secret.
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Walking route: from the lighthouse to the castle
Ten stops through myth, history and village life.
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Do you have a story or old photographs of Myloi? We would love to hear from you.
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