Starting from Kalamata, take a stop at Stavropigio and visit the classic Skarapalezos olive oil mill. If you go there during the olive season, you can watch the oil production as it used to be, and try fresh olive oil in “kapsales” (toasted or half-baked bread slice)
Through the beautiful olive groves of Mani, continue towards Kardamili, look for the ruined olive oil-soap factory ‘Liakea’, one of the most important monuments of the industrial history of Greece, now abandoned, on the beach of this beautiful town. If you have time, visit the old town and enjoy a meal overlooking the Mediterranean.
Returning to Kalamata and taking to Stavropigio the direction to the sea and picturesque Kitries, after Dolloi take a stop at the chapel of Ag. Nikolaos you will find on your way and turn on the lamp that burns even today with olive oil… At the end of this road, turn right to Kalamata or left to scenic Kitries, 1 km from there …