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Extract from the Kalamta Travel Guides:
KALAMTA
is by far the largest city of the southern Peloponnese, spreading for some four kilometres back from the sea, and into the hills. It's quite a metropolitan shock after the small-town life of the rest of the region. The city has a long-established export trade in olives and figs from the Messinian plain, flourishing as a commercial centre during the Turkish period and as one of the first independent Greek towns in 1821, with the first newspaper to be printed on Greek soil five months later. In 1986 however, Kalamta was near the epicentre of a severe
earthquake
that killed twenty people and left 12,000 families home...
read the whole Kalamta Travel Guides...
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