Kalavrita is a beautiful little town known for its contribution to the Greek revolution against the Turks as well as for the resistance during World War II, when the Germans burnt down the town and on the 13th of December 1943 they executed all 1,200 men.

Live the experience of Diakopto–Kalavryta Rack Railway “Odontotos”. Odontotos passes through wild landscapes with waterfalls, “climbs” high, on the steep slopes of the ground and reaches the narrowest point of the route, where it passes through a tunnel.

It is worth your visit at the old school, the now municipal museum of the Kalavritan holocaust, since you will get out of the building with a lot of emotions.

In this symbolic building the inhabitants experienced and suffered the brutality of the Nazi atrocities: after being deceitfully gathered there, the families were inhumanely divided, the men over 14 were taken away from their families and the women and children were mercilessly encaged in the school from which they violently managed to break out later.

A little further from the village of Kalavrita the monastery of Agia Lavra where the first flag of freedom was raised by Bishop Germanos of Patras when the Greeks rebelled against the Turks on March, 21 of 1821 still exists in good condition.

It is a point which commands a view of the whole Vouraikos river valley. The Agia Lavra Monastery, constructed in 961 at an altitude of 961 meters and it once had 961 monks.

The monastery of Mega Spileon has been built at the height of 924 m. against a vertical and almost smooth cliff. The miraculous icon of Mother Mary (one of the four icons painted by Apostole Loukas) made of wax and mastic gum is kept here. The Mega Spileo Monastery is the oldest Greek Orthodox Monastery.