If you choose this direction and regardless of the starting point of your tour, visit Ancient Messina, one of the best preserved ancient Greek cities surrounded by a beautiful olive grove landscape … Outside the archaeological site, look for Arcadian gate and the city wall, from which the view of the Messinian plain is impressive…
In Androusa, besides the castle of this small town, you can also visit the modern olive oil mill M. & T. Kontopoulos, a family business with a long tradition of producing quality olive oil.
On the outskirts of Androusa, look for the beautiful chapel of Samarina, a jewel of Byzantine architecture in a beautiful landscape with olives, oranges and vineyards…
A necessary stop for this route is the Palace of Nestor in Chora of Trifilia, an important monument (1200 BC) with rare finds for everyday life in the Mycenaean times. Here, the ideograms of olive oil and olives of linear B’ script are discovered, which are some of the oldest testimonies about the presence of the olive.