Kalamata

Four people are dead in Kalamata and Lakonia, the Messinia region, and one missing after killer floods hit Greece early Wednesday morning. All four deaths took place in the southern Peloponnese region. Two women, aged 80 and 63 years, were found dead in...

On searching for inspiration for her latest book, writer Victoria Hislop explored Peloponnese and praised its beauties in a feature published in the Mail on Sunday. The British author explains that Peloponnese, the southern peninsula of mainland Greece, is in...

 Greek seismologists warn that there are faults in Greece with a lot of accumulated energy that may result in strong earthquake activity. The geologists' estimates speak of "mature faults" and "accumulation of energy," indicating that, statistically, a strong earthquake has...

More than 60 firefighters and 17 vehicles are employed to contain a forest blaze that broke out late Sunday in the Taygetus Mountain range in Peloponnese. On Monday the fire had spread to steep, inaccessible terrain, near the village of...

A hot air balloon base will start operating in Kalamata, Peloponnese on May 15 with the first flights of the Olympic Balloons company. The balloon base will be at the football field of the old slaughterhouse area, on the city's west...

The U.N. refugee agency is confirming reports that up to 500 people may have lost their lives when an overcrowded boat capsized and sank earlier this month in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. The incident reportedly happened...

More than 400 people appear to have perished in their effort to reach Italy through Egypt, as the four over-filled boats on which they had boarded, were over-turned in the Mediterranean, BBC Arabic reports. Most of the passengers were refugees...

A freighter crew operating under instructions from the shipping ministry's Search and Rescue Coordination Center rescued 41 migrants and refugees in a wooden boat 95 nautical miles southwest of Pylos, on the west coast of the Peloponnese, Greece. They...

Residents and visitors in Kalamata, Peloponnese flocked in the city's main square to watch 740 dancers break the Guinness world record in Bachata dancing. The Bachata is a social Latin dance that was born in the rural areas of the...

Kalamata was the first city to be liberated as the Greeks rose in the Greek War of Independence. On 23 March 1821, it was taken over by the Greek revolutionary forces under the command of generals Theodoros Kolokotronis, Petros...