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Extract from the Monemvasi Travel Guides:
MONEMVASI
, standing impregnable on a great island-like irruption of rock, was the medieval seaport and commercial centre of the Byzantine Peloponnese, the secular counterpart of Mystra. Nowadays the lower town is a curious mixture of atmospheric heritage combined with tacky souvenir shops and gawping tourists.
The town's name, an elision of
Moni Emvasis
, "single entrance", is a reference to its approach from the mainland, across a kilometre of causeway and a small bridge built in the twentieth century to replace a sequence of wooden bridges. Such a defensible and strategic position gave it con...
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