Driving Greece: EO82 Kalamata - Sparta - 4k scenic mountain drive Taygetos Mountain

We are travelling today through the mountainous inland of The Peloponnese peninsula, at the foothills of the highest mountain from here, Mount Taygetos. We start at the seaside, in Kalamata, but soon start to climb, first through beautiful olive trees plantations, then through The Nedontas River Gorges, until reaching traditional mountain villages, situated halfway on the mountains, like Artemisia. Here there are some good restaurants and accomodation possibilities. From the villages the final part of the climb starts, that brings us after many hairpin turns to the highest point of the road, at over 1300m asl. From here we plunge down towards Sparta, an impressive steep downhill, with views from time to time to The Taygetos mountain. Shortly before Sparta we passing by The Unesco World Heritage Site of Mystras.
Video clips from our walks through Kalamata are also integrated in the video, enjoy!

Filmed in December 2021.

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Route:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Verga
2:53 Kalamata
3:12 Video clips from Kalamata
7:01 Kalamata bypass
9:43 EO82 Kalamata - Panagitsa
11:14 Panagitsa
12:22 Panagitsa - Menina
14:48 Menina
14:59 Menina - Theotokos
34:33 Artemisia
37:03 Artemisia - Tripi
1:07:31 Tripi
1:09:50 Tripi - Magoula
1:14:18 Magoula
1:16:43 Sparta